[100] Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens.——
An Eyeless Monster, hideous, vast deform!
[101] —Loricam ex ære rigentem, Sanguineam, ingentem.——
The Corslet stiff with Brass, Sanguine, immense.
A Style, therefore, destitute of Epithets, will gain no more Admirers, than a Body made up of nothing but Nerves and Bones: And as the Beauty of this consists in not being too much emaciated, nor yet over-charged with Flesh; so does that of the other in a just Proportion of these sort of Adjuncts, when they are neither wanting, nor too much abound. Verbs and Substantives I suppose to be in Style, what Bones and Nerves are in a Body; because they contain more Strength, tho' not more Beauty than Epithets; which therefore, whenever Emphasis and Energy is required, are totally omitted. Thus Virgil:
[102] Aude, hospes, contemnere opes, & te quoque dignum Finge Deo.——
Dare to scorn Wealth, brave Guest; presume thyself Worthy to emulate a God.
And again:
[103] Est hic, est animus lucis contemptor, & istum Qui vita bene credit emi, quo tendis, honorem.
Here too, here dwells a Soul that with Contempt Regards this vital Air, and thinks with Life That Fame well bought, to which thy Soul aspires.