He whom ungrateful Athens could expell, At all times juft, but when he fign'd the Shell: Here his abode the martyr'd Phocion claims, With Agis, not the last of Spartan names: 175 Unconquer'd Cato fhews the wound he tore, And Brutus his ill Genius meets no more. But in the centre of the hallow'd choir, Six pompous columns o'er the rest aspire; NOTES. VER. 172. He whom ungrateful Athens, etc.] Ariftides, who for his great integrity was distinguished by the appellation of the fuft. When his countrymen would have banished him by the Oftracism, where it was the custom for every man to fign the name of the perfon he voted to exile in an Oystershell; a peasant, who could not write, came to Aristides to do it for him, who readily figned his own name. P. VER. 178. But in the centre of the hallow'd choir, etc.] In the midst of the temple, neareft the throne of Fame, are placed the greatest names in learning of all antiquity. These are described in fuch attitudes as exprefs their different characters: the columns on which they are raised are adorned with fculptures, taken from the most striking fubjects of their works; which fculpture bears a refemblance, in its manner and character, to the manner and character of their writings. P. IMITATIONS. VER. 179. Six pompous columns, etc. From the dees many a pillere, Of metal that fhone not full clere, etc. That was of lede and iron fine, Him of the Sect Saturnine, The Ebraicke Jofephus the old, ete. Upon an iron piller strong, That painted was all endlong, Around the fhrine itself of Fame they ftand, 180 His filver beard wav'd gently o'er his breast; 185 Bold was the work, and prov'd the master's fire; IMITATIONS. With tigers' blood in every place, The Tholofan that hight Stace, That bare of Thebes up the name, etc. P. VER. 182.] Full wonder hye on a pillere Of iron, he the great Omer, And with him Dares and Titus, &c. P. VER. 196, etc.] There faw I ftand on a pillere That was of tinned iron cleere, Finish'd the whole, and labour'd ev'ry part, In living sculpture on the fides were spread Æneas bending with his aged fire: Troy flam'd in burning gold, and o'er the throne ARMS AND THE MAN in golden cyphers shone. Four swans sustain a car of filver bright, 210 With heads advanc'd, and pinions stretch'd for flight: NOTES. VER. 21C. Four fwans fuftain, etc.] Pindar being feated in a chariot, alludes to the chariot-races he celebrated in the Grecian games. The fwans are emblems of Poetry, their foaring posture intimates the fublimity and activity of his ge nius. Neptune prefided over the Ifthmian, and Jupiter over the Olympian games. IMITATIONS. The Latin Poet Virgyle, That hath bore up of a great while And next him on a pillere was Here, like some furious prophet, Pindar rode, The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run; Here happy Horace tun'd th' Aufonian lyre To sweeter founds, and temper'd Pindar's fire: Pleas'd with Alcæus' manly rage t' infuse The fofter spirit of the Sapphic Muse. IMITATIONS. The great Poet Dan Lucan, Of fulphur, like as he were wode, That bare up all the fame of hell, etc. P. VER. 224. Pleas'd with Alcaus' many rage t' infufe 225 This expreffes the mix'd character of the odes of Horace : the fecond of these verses alludes to that line of his, Spiritum Graiæ tenuem camœnæ. As another which follows, to Exegi monumentum ære perennius. The polish'd pillar diff'rent sculptures grace; IMITATIONS. 235 The action of the Doves hints at a paffage in the fourth ode of his third book. Me fabulofæ Vulture in Appulo Altricis extra limen Apuliæ, Ludo fatigatumque fomno, Fronde nova puerum palumbes Texêre; mirum quod foret omnibus- Dormirem et urfis; ut premerer facra Lauroque collataque myrto, Non fine Diis animofus infans. Which may be thus Englished; While yet a child, I chanc'd to ftray, Myrtles and Bays around me spread, |