Pag. Line 98. 4. Sive hunc-Whether of Seed divine he firft was made Or if the recent Earth, fever'd fo late From Ether, ftill retain'd fome Kindred-Seeds, Which fly PROMETHEUS moift'ning with the Stream, Fram'd in the Likeness of th' all-ruling Gods. 110. 19. Jupiter-Jove firft cut fhort the Term of ancient SPRING. 140. 11. Jupiter—Almighty Jove, Father and Mother both Of Gods, and Men, and Things. 146. 16. It Ver & Venus-VENUS and verna! Gales go hand in hand, And balmy-pinnion'd Zephyr tends their Steps, Sweet Harbinger of Venus and the Spring. 153. 6. Bagatelle-Trifling and Senfuality. 754. 4. Felix qui-Happy the Man, who vers'd in Nature's Laws, Trample on Terrors and relentless Fate, Ibid. 23. Quis enim-Who e'er unanxious loved?— 157. 10. Virtutem Verba-Meer Words make Virtue, juft as Trees a Grove. 216. 14. Quantum Relligio-What difinal Deeds RELIGION cou'd advise. 222. 19. Naturam- Drive NATURE out, wer't with a naked Sword, She'll ftill return. 301. 22. Qui fui-Whose high Deferts acquir'd a deathlefs Name, Mutavit Pag. Line 367. 11. Mutavit mentem-The giddy People changed their Mind, 369. 23. Chi con una and burn With one Defire-to write. Who with the felf-fame Wand Govern'd both human Things, and Things divine. 390. 20. Magnus ab―The Course of Ages here begins anew, And mighty Months from hence fucceffive PA ERRATA. AGE 7. Line 25. Ben. read Brown. p. 9. 1. 2. r. barefooted. p. 59: 1. 20. r. behold'ft. p. 176. 1. 12. Father, F. Grandfather's. p. 55. 1. 11. Sprung, r. fprang. p. 87. 1. 26. Note*, . p. 58. P. 143. Note (n) iyngaïs, r. vygais. p. 198. Note (z) fimilia, r. fimilis. Ibid. & facrilegas, r. facrilegas, &. p. 273. Note (e)... p. 282. £ 12. Bolom, r. Womb. Ibid. 1. 25. there hear, r. there let you hear. p. 32%. 1. 18. Difdain, r. Disdain of. p. 335. Note (c) xɛig, r. xεP. p. 341. 1. 4. after Goldfword, r. or rather Fire-Artist; from -WM Cha τem-our. Πυροτεχνικής. p. 352. Note (s) r. Stillingfleet in Note (t). p. 383. Note, 1. 2. is always, r. is almost always. p. 391. Note (g) αντιλογίας, τ. αιτιολογία. IS ftrange, my Friend! 'tis wond'rous Lett. 1. T ty? New indeed to you; to enquire about ancient Opinions; or about modern Books that entertain us with fuch obfolete Stuff. Are you really become a Convert? Have you renounced the State of Infidelity in which you formerly lived, and begin to believe, fincerely believe in the Knowledge and Capacity of the Ages long preceeding our own? Not a great while, fince you wou'd hardly allow the credulous Ancients a moderate Share of Common Sense; or if they had been forced into any Acquaintance with the Arts of Life, you ftill prefumed that all the World agreed with a great Prelate1, in A 2 Des Fables plus ridicules que ont fait la Religion des Payens. niver. thinking celles que l'on conte aux Enfans, Lett. 1. thinking their Fables ridiculous, beyond the Folly of Children; and laughed at me, you may remember, fomewhat immoderately, for taking it into my head, That fome of them had a Meaning. MAY I now laugh a little in my Turn? Are you indeed come to think that their Authors were Men? Juft fuch Men as You or I? That, you will fay, I never doubted: Perhaps not; but only of its Confequences: An Ancient might have the fame human Figure, and walk about upon two Legs as We do: But that they had the fame Understanding, the fame Views in Life, and purfued them after the fame Manner, that was a hard Saying: And ftill a harder, That it wou'd have been as difficult to have perfuaded a Gentleman in Athens or Rome of the Legend of Venus and Adonis literally understood, as to make a Briton swallow a Tale of the Virgin Mary and her Spouse St. Dominic; or an ingenious Parifian of the Abbe's miraculous Tomb. "But "now Dr. M*** has fent you a Book, to which "when once fet down, you cou'd not rife; and "when quite thro' it, the strange Fancies it put "into your Head, obliged you just to begin again. They call it an Enquiry into the Life and "Writings of Homer; tho' you think it fhou'd "rather have bore the Title of the Rife of Arts "and Progress of Languages and Learning; and " is full of Plates, whofe Meaning above all things you wish to have explained." GIVE |