To whom commiffions I have given, To manage there the interefts of heaven: Ye holy heralds, who proclaim Or war or peace, in mine your master's name : For I in perfon will my people head; For the divine deliverer Will on his march in majefty appear, Under the article of the Confounding, we rank 1. The MIXTURE OF FIGURES, which raises so many images, as to give you no image at all. But its principal beauty is when it gives an unexpected picture of Winter. fort is the following: Of this P The gaping clouds pour lakes of fulphur down, What a noble Confufion? clouds, lakes, brimftone, flames, fun-beams, gaping, pouring, fick. ning, drowning! all in two lines. 2. The JARGON. Thy head fhall rife, tho' buried in the duft, P Pr. Arthur, p. 37. Jub, p. 107. Quare, What are the glittering turrets of a man's head? Upon the shore, as frequent as the fand, To meet the Prince, the glad Dimetians ftand. Quere, Where these Dimetians ftood? and of what fize they were? Add alfo to the Jargon fuch as the following. Deftruction's empire shall no longer laft, Here Niobe, fad mother makes her moan, But for Variegation nothing is more useful than where a Word, like the tongue of a jackdaw, fpeaks twice as much by being fplit: As this of Mr. Dennis w, Bullets that wound, like Parthians, as they fly; or this excellent one of Mr Welfted *, Behold the Virgin lye Naked, and only cover'd by the Sky. To which thou may'st add, To fee her beauties no man needs to floop, Pr. Arthur, f. 157. 8 Job, p. 89. t T. Cook, poems. * Welfted, Poems, Acon and Lavin. : 4. The ANTITHESIS, OF SEE-SAW, whereby Contraries and Oppofitions are ballanced in fuch a way, as to caufe a reader to remain fuf. pended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation. Such are thefe, on a lady who made herself appear out of fize, by hiding a young prin cefs under her cloaths. While the kind nymph changing her faultless shape On the Maids of Honour in mourning : 2 Sadly they charm, and difmally they please. His eyes fo bright 2 Let in the object and let out the light. D The Gods look pale to fee us look fo red. C The Fairies and their Queen In mantles blue came tripping o'er the green. y Waller. Alex. z Steel on Queen Mary. a Quarles. c Phil, Paft. d Black. Job, p. 176. **Lee, СНАР. XI. The Figures continued: Of the Magnify. ing and Diminishing Figures. A Genuine Writer of the Profund will take care never to magnify any object without clouding it at the fame time: His Thought will appear in a true mift, and very unlike what is in nature. It must always be remember'd that Darknefs is an effential quality of the Profund, or, if there chance to be a glimmering, it must be as Milton expreffes it, No light, but rather darkness visible. The chief Figure of this fort is, 1. The HYPERBOLE, or Impoffible. For inftance of a Lion; He roar'd fo loud, and look'd fo wondrous grim, Of a Lady at Dinner. The filver whiness that adorns thy neck, e Vet. Aut. Of the fame. Th` obfcureness of her birth Cannot eclipfe the luftre of her eyes, Which make her all one light. Of a Bull-baiting. Up to the ftars the sprawling maftives fly, Of a Scene of Mifery. h Behold a fcene of mifery and woe! Here Argus foon might weep himself quite blind, To wipe thofe hundred eyes. And that modest request of two absent lovers : 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the ninth chapter, and fhall again in the twelfth. To the fame class of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which are so excellently modern, that we have yet no name for them. In defcribing a country prospect, f Theob. Double Falfhood. Blackm. h Anon. |