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Book III. F I N G A L. 183
When mountain-high the rolling Billows come.
And daOiing on its Sides, ejedl their Foam :
285 Loud roars the Tempeft from the vaft Profound 3
The neighb'ring Hills along the Coaft refound. .
So ftands the Chief, a Man againft a Hoft,
Whom not an Army can expel his Poft.
Now
So fome tall Rock o'erhangs the hoary Main,
By Winds affail'd, by Billows beat in vain,
Unmov'd it hears above, the Tempefts blow.
And fees the wat'ry Mountain break below.
Pope.
Virgil hzs imitated this in the loth Book of the iEneis, where MezentiuXy
aflaulted by his Tufcan Subjefts, is reprefented thus.
Ille velut rupes vajium qiia prodit in ttqiior,
Obvia ventorum furiis, expoftaque ponto.
Vim cun^am, atque minas perfert ccelique marifque,
Ipfa immota manens.
He, like a folid Rock by Seas inclos'd.
To raging Winds and roaring Waves oppos'd ;
From his proud Summit looking down, difdains
Their empty Menace, and unmov'd remains.
Dryden,
There