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Ode 31. BOTH * When at Apollo's hallowed fhrine Tbe poet hails the power divine, And here his firft libation pours, _ What is the bleffmg he implores f H DESCRIPTIVE POETRY* t fy BOTH Homer and Virgil are remarkable for L E q T. The talent of Poetical Defcription. In Virgil's y v -_t Second ^Eneid, where he defcribes the burning and facking of Troy, the particulars are fo well felected and reprefented, that the Reader finds himfelf in the midil of that fcene of horror. The death of Priam, efpec...ially, may be fmgled out as a mailer-piece of defcrip- tion. All the circumftances of the aged mo- narch arraying himfelf in armour, when ha finds the enemy making themfelves mailers of the city; his meeting with his family, who are taking fhelter at an altar in the court of the palace, and their placing him in the midft of them ; his indignation when he beholds Pyr* rhus flaughtering one of his fons ; the feeble dart which he throws ; with Pyrrhus's brutal behaviour, and his manner of putting the old man to death, are painted in the mod affecting manner, and with a mafterly hand.
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