All that is between was added afterwards.—Pope.
[446] This repetition is formed on similar passages in Virgil.—Wakefield.
As, for instance, Dryden's Æn. vi. 950:
Then thrice around his neck his arms he threw;
And thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
[447] See Milton, lib. vi. 330, of Satan cut asunder by the Angel Michael.—Pope.
But th' ethereal substance closed
Not long divisible.
Dum juga montis aper, fluvios dum piscis amabit,
Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt. Virg.— Pope.
[449] A famous book written about that time by a woman: full of court and party scandal; and in a loose effeminacy of style and sentiment, which well-suited the debauched taste of the better vulgar.—Warburton.
Mrs. Manley, the author of it, was the daughter of Sir Roger Manley, Governor of Guernsey, and the author of the first volume of the famous Turkish Spy, published from his papers, by Dr. Midgley. She was known and admired by all the wits of the times. She died in the house of Alderman Barber, Swift's friend; and was said to have been the mistress of the alderman.—Warton.