103, (vol.ii.p.

26,) is remarkable for its breadth and massiveness of development.
100 "Say first, for heav'n hides nothing from thy view." -- "Paradise Lost," i.

27.
"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni Mandassero a Cristiani, e di quai parti: Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge Debil aura di fama appena giunge." -- "Gier.

Lib." iv.

19.
101 "The Catalogue is, perhaps, the portion of the poem in favour of which a claim to separate authorship has been most plausibly urged.
Although the example of Homer has since rendered some such formal enumeration of the forces engaged, a common practice in epic poems descriptive of great warlike adventures, still so minute a statistical detail can neither be considered as imperatively required, nor perhaps such as would, in ordinary cases, suggest itself to the mind of a poet.