hat incomparable encomium of Virgil's second Georgic on philosophy and
a country life.--WAKEFIELD.

In addition to the imitation of the second Georgic, and the translation
of lines in Horace and Lucan, Pope adopted hints, as Warton has
remarked, from Philips's Cider:

He to his labour hies
Gladsome, intent on somewhat that may ease
Unhealthy mortals, and with curious search
Examines all the properties of herbs,
Fossils and minerals, &c.
or else his thoughts
Are exercised with speculations deep,
Of good, and just, and meet, and th' wholesome rules
Of temperance, and ought that may improve
The moral life; &c.]

[Footnote 98: Lord Lansdowne.--CROKER.]

[Footnote 99: This is taken from Horace's epistle to Tibullus:

An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubres,
Curantem quidquid dignum sapiente bonoque est?--WAKEFIELD.

Pope remembered Creech's translation of the passage:

Or dost thou gravely walk the healthy wood,
Considering what befits the wise and good.]

[Footnote 100:

----servare modum, finemque tenere,
Naturamque sequi. Lucan.--WARBURTON.]

[Footnote 101: Dryden's Virgil, Geor. ii. 673:

Ye sacred muses! with whose beauty fired,
My soul is ravished, and my brain inspired.--WAKEFIELD.

Addison in his Letter from Italy has the expression "fired with a
thousand raptures."]

[Footnote 102:

O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi
Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra! Virg.--WARBURTON.]

[Footnote 103: Cooper's Hill is the elevation, not deserving the name of
mountain, just over Egham and Runnymede.--CROKER.]

[Footnote 104: It stood thus in the MS.

Methinks around your hold scenes I rove,
And hear your music echoing through the grove:
With transport visit each inspiring shade,
By god-like poets venerable made.--WARBURTON.]

[Footnote 105: From Philips's Cider, ii. 6:

or what
Unrivalled authors by their presence made
For ever venerable.--STEEVENS.]

[Footnote 106: By "first lays," Pope means Cooper's Hill, but Denham had
previously written the Sophy, a tragedy, and translated the second book
of the AEneid.]

[Footnote 107: Dryden says of the Cooper's Hill, "it is a poem which for
_majesty_ of style is, and ever will be, the standard of good writing."
From hence, no doubt, Pope took the word "majestic."--BOWLES.]

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