Ex oculis removete manus. sine munere vestro Contegat inductus morientia lumina cortex. Desierant simul ora loqui, simul esse: diuque 100 Corpore mutato rami caluere recentes. She ceas'd at once to speak, and ceas'd to be; 100 And all the nymph was lost within the tree; Yet latent life through her new branches reign'd, And long the plant a human heat retain'd. THOUGH We must regret the hours our Poet spent in translating Statius and Ovid; yet it has given us an opportunity of admiring his good sense and judgment, in not suffering his taste and style, in his succeeding works, to be infected with the faults of these two writers. Warton. |