, to keep up an agreeable Variety in his Visions, after having raised in the Mind of his Reader the several Ideas of Terror which are conformable to the Description of War, passes on to those softer Images of Triumphs and Festivals, in that Vision of Lewdness and Luxury which ushers in the Flood.
As it is visible that the Poet had his Eye upon
Ovid's
Account of the universal Deluge, the Reader may observe with how much Judgment he has avoided every thing that is redundant or puerile in the
Latin
Poet.
do not here see the Wolf swimming among the Sheep, nor any of those wanton Imaginations, which
Seneca
found fault with