Mr. _Pope_'s Sentiments of these two Poets are somewhat different; the Reader shall have the Pleasure of comparing them; "This Fire (says he) is discern'd in _Virgil_, but discern'd as thro' a Glass, reflected, and more shining than warm, but every where equal and constant: In _Lucan_, and _Statius_, it bursts out in sudden, short, and interrupted Flames: In _Milton_ it glows like a Furnace, kept to an uncommon Fierceness by the Force of Art: In _Shakespear_, it strikes before we are aware, like an accidental Fire from Heaven: But in _Homer_, and in him only, it burns every where clearly, and every where irresistibly." _Pope_'s Translation of _Homer_'s _Iliad_. Dr. _Trapp_ criticizes on this Passage.
Selectæ e profanis Scriptoribus Historiæ, quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi Præcepta, ex iisdem Scriptoribus deprompta. Editio altera.
Mons. _Rollin_, in his _Method of Studying the Belles Lettres_, Vol. I, p. 84, concludes a very advantageous Character of this Work in the following Words:
"I know of no Book, which may be more useful, and at the same time more agreeable to Youth. It contains excellent Principles of Morality, collected with great Order and Judgment, with very affecting Passages of History upon every Article."
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