Capitolo 77
In mine the paper of last Monday I gave some general examples of those
beautiful hits that arrange the reader in the old song of "Chevy-
Hunting; " I am able here, according to my promise is more detail,
and show that the feelings in that ballad are extremely natural
and poetic, and full of the stately simplicity in which we admire
the greatest of the ancient poets: for that reason that I will quote
many passages of him in which the thought is together the same
with what we satisfy in many passages of the "AEneid; " not that me
it would inflict for this motive from that the poet, whoever whom he was, proposed to
him some counterfeit of those passages, but that he was directed
them in general from the same kind of poetic genius, and from the same
copyings after nature.
It had this old song fills with turns of epigrammatical and points
of the intelligence, you/he/she would perhaps have arranged the wrong taste of some
readers; but the delight of the ground of common ownership would not be become never
people, neither you/he/she has heated the heart of Lord Phillip Sidney it likes the
sound of a trumpet; it is only nature that can have this effect, and
please those tastes that are the more without prejudices or the more anymore
refined. However, I have to implore permission to dissent from so great a
authority like that of Lord Phillip Sidney, in the judgment that he has
passed as to the ill-mannered style and the bad ornament of this aged ones
song; for there a lot of parts they are him where not only the thought
but the language is stately, and the numbers sonorous; at least the
ornament is very more sumptuous than many gods poets it used than in
The duration of Queen Elizabeth, as the reader will see in very of the
following quotations.
What greater than the thought or the expression can be in
that room,
To drive the buck with hunting dog and horn
Earl Percy taken his/her way;
His/her child can be sorry that you/he/she is not yet been born
The hunting of that day!
This way than in consideration of the adversities that is able this battle
hands on posterity, not only on those that were immediately born