, and always rises above himself, when he has

Homer

in his View.

Virgil

has drawn together, into his

Æneid

, all the pleasing Scenes his Subject is capable of admitting, and in his

Georgics

has given us a Collection of the most delightful Landskips that can be made out of Fields and Woods, Herds of Cattle, and Swarms of Bees.

Ovid