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The expression of feeling may be exaggerated, and little consistent with the flattery with which the poem opens; yet even this flattery, when carefully read, seems fuller of satire than of praise: "Quod si non aliam venturo fata Neroni Invenere viam, magnoque aeterna parantur Regna deis, caelumque suo servire Tonanti Non nisi saevorum potuit post bella Gigantum; Iam nihil O superi querimur!
You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London. He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggeration; repeating, with pauses and half-whistlings interjected, 'Os homini sublime dedit, caelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus';
It is this philosophy, at once so magnificent and so fabulous, which Virgil so gracefully expresses in the following verses upon bees: "Esse apibus partem divinae mentis, et haustus AEtherios dixere: Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque, tractusque maris, caelumque profundum. Hinc pecudes, armenta viros, genus omne ferarum, Quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas.
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