Macbeth.
I must give his note as it stands, for I question whether the whole range of verbal criticism could produce anything more ludicrous:
"I wish Mr. Gray could have introduced a more poetical expression, than the inactive term stood, into this fine passage: as Shakspeare has, for instance, in his description of Dover cliff:
'Half way down
Hangs one, that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!'
King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 6.
"Which is the same happy picture as that of Virgil:
"'Dumosa pendere procul de rupe videbo.'
Ecl. I. 77."
He might, when his hand was in, have adduced other passages also from Virgil, e.g.: