"bodies, that the reputation of their past vic"tories protected them more than their prefent ftrength t.' 66 VIRGIL will alfo furnish us with an example of the fame Figure; $$ The African bears with him all his wealth, And house, and houfhold-gods, and armed force, § 7. We may find examples of this Figure in Scripture Pfalm xviii. 2. " The LORD is my srock, and my ftrength, and my deliverer." So Gal. iv. 10. " Ye obferve days, and times, and months, and years." And Rom. viii. 35. " Who " fhall feparate us from the love of CHRIST? Shall tribulation, or diftrefs, or perfecution, or "famine, or nakedness, or peril, or fword? And again, ver. 38, 39. of the fame chapter, "For I am perfuaded that neither death, nor' life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, "nor things prefent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall "be able to separate us from the love of GOD, which is in CHRIST JESUS Our LORD." $ 8. Somnus enim, & vinum, & epulæ, & fcorta, balneaque, & otium confuetudine indies blandius, ita enervaverunt corpora animofque, ut magis deinde præteritæ eos victoriæ quam præfentes tutarentur vires. Liv. lib. xxiii. § 18. Omnia fecum Armentarius Afer agit, tectumque, laremque, • Armaque, amyclæumque canem, creffamque pharetram. VIRGIL. Georgic. libs iii. ver. 343, fame time checks, and yet accelarates the «fentence *. 66 «The want of a fcrupulous connexion,” fays an ingenious Writer, "draws things into a smaller compafs, and adds the greater fpirit and emo❝tion: the more rays are thus collected into a point, the more vigorous the flame †." σε § 5. The very opposite to this Figure is the Poly [yndeton t; for as the Afyndeton drops, fo the Polyfyndeton on the contrary abounds with conjunctive particles. § 6. We have an inftance of this kind in LIVY; who, defcribing the pleasure and luxury which corrupted and foftened the army of HANNIBAL, fays, " For sleep, and wine, and feafts, « and ftrumpets, and bagnios, and sloth, that through cuftom grows every day more bewitching, had fo enervated their minds and "bodies, Απλοκα εκπιπίει, και οιονεί προχειται τα λεγόμενα, ολιγό δεν φθάνοντα και αυτόν τον λεγοντα. " Και συμβαλόντες, φησιν σε ο Ξενοφών, τους ασπίδας, έωθεντο, έωθεντο, εμάχοντο, αποκλει 203, απέθνησκον." Και τα τ8 Ευρυλοχέ, Βίομεν, ως εκελευες, ανα δρυμα, φαιδιμ' Οδυσσεν, Ευρομεν εν βησσησι τελυγμενα δωματα καλα. Τα γαρ αλληλων διακεκομμένα, και εδεν ητἿον κατεσπευσμένα, Φέρει της αγωνίας εμφασιν, αμα και εμποδίζεσης τι και συνδιοςLONGINUS de Sublimitate, § 19. χέσης. + SPENCE's Elay on Mr Pope's Odyley, page 237. † From πολυ and συνδεω, I conjoin much. §8. There is an example both of the Am deton and the Polyfyndeton together in DEMOSTHENES; which may very properly clofe our difcourse upon them, fo far as it refpects examples. "For as to naval power, and the number of ❝ forces and revenues, and a plenty of martial preparations, and, in a word, as to other things that may be efteemed the ftrength of « a state, these are all both more and greater "than in former times: but all these things are rendered ufelefs, inefficacious, abortive, through the power of corruption †." 66 $9. It may be proper to obferve, that the ground of the Afyndeton seems to lie in its happy exprefsion of our impetuous passions, or in its happy description of fomething that is fudden, rapid, and inftantaneous: whereas the ground of the Polyfyndeton appears to be laid in the fpeaker's desire that every one of his weighty and important ideas may be fully comprehended; and therefore he gives time, by the reduplication of conjunctions, for the leifurely infusion of his fentiments, that they may thereby make the more forcible and lasting impression. A man † Επει τριήρεις γε και σωμαίων πληθος, και χρημαίων προσοδοι, και της άλλης κατασκευης αφθόνια, και τ' άλλα, οις αν τις ισχύειν τας πολεις κρίνοι, τον απανία κα και πλείω και μείζω επι των τότε πολλα. Αλλ' απανία ταυία αχρησα, απρακια, avornÎæ Uπo Twy Twλerlwi yıgustas. DEMOSTH, Philip.iši. edit. WOLF11, p. 48. |