Note 176 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL POETRY
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Virgil, “Georgics,” i, 329, “quo maxuma motu Terra tremit;” Dryden, “Georgics,” i, 430, “the mountains nod and earth’s entrails tremble.” Virgil, “Eclogue 6,” “rigidas motare cacumina quercus;” Dryden, “Pastoral 6,” “nodding forests to the numbers danced;” cf. Pope, “Messiah,” “nodding forests on the mountain dance,” and Milton, “Comus,” l. 38, “nodding horror of the wood.”