Addison in his Letter from Italy has the expression "fired with a thousand raptures."
O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Hæmi
Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra! Virg.—Warburton.
[103] Cooper's Hill is the elevation, not deserving the name of mountain, just over Egham and Runnymede.—Croker.
[104] It stood thus in the MS.
Methinks around your hold scenes I rove,
And hear your music echoing through the grove:
With transport visit each inspiring shade,
By god-like poets venerable made.—Warburton.
[105] From Philips's Cider, ii. 6:
or what
Unrivalled authors by their presence made
For ever venerable.—Steevens.
[106] By "first lays," Pope means Cooper's Hill, but Denham had previously written the Sophy, a tragedy, and translated the second book of the Æneid.
[107] Dryden says of the Cooper's Hill, "it is a poem which for majesty of style is, and ever will be, the standard of good writing." From hence, no doubt, Pope took the word "majestic."—Bowles.