[14] Virg. Ecl. x. 8.
Non canimus surdis: respondent omnia sylvæ.—Pope.
Ogilby's translation of the verse in Virgil:
Nor to the deaf do we our numbers sing,
Since woods, in answ'ring us, with echoes ring.—Wakefield.
[15] A line out of Spenser's Epithalamion.—Pope.
[16] A line unworthy our author, containing a false and trivial thought; as is also the 22nd line.—Warton.
[17] Pope says his merit in these Pastorals is his copying from the ancients. Can anything like this, and other conceits, be found in the natural and unaffected language of Virgil? No such thing. But what do we find in Dryden's imitation of Virgil, Ecl. ii. 13:
The creaking locusts with my voice conspire,
They fried with heat, and I with fierce desire.
This is Virgil's:
Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis.