Dryden's Astræa Redux:
A dreadful quiet felt.—Wakefield.
Charles Bainbrigg on the death of Edward King:
Abyssum
Terribilis requies et vasta silentia cingant.—Steevens.
[659] Fenton in his version of Sappho to Phaon:
With him the caves were cool, the grove was green,
But now his absence withers all the scene.—Wakefield.
[660] Dryden's Theodore and Honoria:
With deeper brown the grove was overspread.—Steevens.
Dryden, Æn. vii. 40:
The Trojan from the main beheld a wood,
Which thick with shades and a brown horror stood.—Wakefield.