...o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the op'ning hound. i;o Th' impatient courser pants in ev'ry vein. And pawing,...distant plain; Hills, vales, and floods, appear already cross'd, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. See! the bold youth strain up the threat'ning...

...ABSENTEMQ.UE FERIT GRAVIS UNGUL А С AMPUM. STAIIVJ. ТВ* IMPATIENT COURSE» FANTS IN EVERY VtIN; AND, PAWING, SEEMS TO BEAT THE DISTANT PLAIN: HILLS, VALES, AND FLOODS, APPEAR ALREADY CKOSTj AND, ERE HE STARTS, Л THOUSAND STEPS ARE LOST. ^ I ^ HAT the mind of mnn is never JL latisfied...

...WINDSOR FOREST, where they are thus beau. cihilly paraphrased : The impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant plain ;...crost, . And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. ^. v^j. 'n^ Oaf-author trusted, as usual, to memory ; for the first ; y&WjlfrNf '"''' of the lines...

...WINDSOR FOREST, where they are thus beautifully paraphrased : The impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant plain ;...crost, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. Our author trusted, as usual, to memory ; for the first of the lines quoted from Statius, runs differently...

...paraphrased : The impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant piain j Hills, vales, and floods, appear already crost, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. Our author trusted, as usual, to memory ; for the Erst of the lines quoted from Statius, runs differently...

...fugam, absentemque ferit gravis ungula campum. STATIUS. " ' i TV impatient courser pants in every vein j And pawing, seems to beat the distant plain : Hills,...••• And, ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. POPE. THAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always...

...their departure : " Pereant vestigia mille " Ante fugam, absentemque ferit gravis ungula campum." " Hills, vales, and floods, appear already crost ; " And, ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost." POPE. Among the fallacies which only experience can detect, there are some, of which scarcely experience...

...swiftness ; nor have I met with any thing that comes so near it, as Mr. Pope's, in Windsor Forest: " The impatient courser pants in ev'ry vein, And, pawing,...crost, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost." " So when the ring with joyful shouts resounds, With rage and pride the imprison'd courser bounds :...

...o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the op'ning hound. J50 Th' impatient courser pants in ev'ry vein, And, pawing,...distant plain : Hills, vales, and floods appear already cross'd, And ere he starts a thousand steps are lost. See the bold youth strain up the threat'ning...

...mille Ante fugam,abunttntquc ferit gra-vu ungula eampum. sTAT1Us, Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant plain ;...crost, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. PoPE. THAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always...