Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English, Vol. 1 of 4: The Æneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, With Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton, With Several New Observations, by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, C. Heyne, and Others

There are few images and fentiments in the Eclogues of Virgil, but what are drawn from the Idylliums of Theocritus in whom there is a rural, romantic wildnefs of thought, heightened by the Doric dialect, with fuch lively pictures of the pallions, and of fimple unadorned nature, as are infinitely pleafing to Inch lovers and judges of true poetry as yourfelf. Theocritus is indeed the great. Fiore-houfe of pafioral defcription, and every fue~ ceeding painter of rural beauty (except thomson in his Seafons, ) hath copied his images from him, without ever looking abroad upon the face of na ture themfelves. And thus a {er of hereditary objec'ts has been continued from one poet to an other, which have been often made ufe of without any propriety either as to age or climate.

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