Note 48 — LECTURE IV, V, VI, VII. Of the Style of Poetry.

'Tis the Business of the Poet to give Life, Motion, or Sound to almost every Thing he describes, which in Oratory would be ridiculous: Thus, for Example, put into Prose, Juvenal's——jam tum mihi barba sonabat, or Virgil's Description of an Oak grafted on an Elm,——Glandemque sues fregere sub ulmis; with these lively Images you would gain the Reader's Smile, not his Admiration.