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This is undoubtedly in the genuine manner of the Augustan age, but in a manner which was censured by one of the best poets and critics of that or any age: Migravit ab aure voluptas Omnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana: Quatuor aut plures aulæa premuntur in horas, Dum fugiunt equitum turmæ, peditumque catervæ; I must interrupt the passage, most fervently to deprecate and abominate the sequel:
This heedless pursuit after these glittering trifles, the poet, by a nice concealed moral, represents to have been the destruction of his female hero. Equitis quoque jam migravit ab aure voluptas Omnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana. HOR., Ep. ii. 1, 187. But now our nobles too are fops and vain, Neglect the sense, but love the painted scene.
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