[136] Boileau's Art of Poetry by Dryden and Soame, canto i.:
A frozen style, that neither ebbs or flows,
Instead of pleasing makes us gape and doze.
[137] Much in the same strain Garth's Dispensary, iv. 24:
So nicely tasteless, so correctly dull.—Wakefield.
[138] This is an adaptation of a couplet in Dryden's Eleonora:
Nor this part musk, or civet can we call,
Or amber, but a rich result of all.
[139] It is impossible to determine whether he refers to St. Peter's or the Pantheon.
[140] An impropriety of the grossest kind is here committed. Grammar requires "appears."—Wakefield.
[141] Dryden's translation of Ovid's Met. book xv.
Greater than whate'er was, or is, or e'er shall be.—Holt White.