CHAPTER XIX. The HYPOTYPOSIS Confidered. § 1. Its definition. § 2. Examples from ORPHEUS, ARATUS, CATULLUS, MILTON, WATTS, and BURNET. 3. Two inftances of this Figure S from HORACE and CASIMIRE, in their defcriptions of a country life. § 4. Examples from Scripture. § 5. QUINTILIAN'S fentiments upon the Hypotypofis. § 6. Directions concerning the ufe of this Figure. $1. Hypotypofis is a Figure, by which we give fuch a distinct and lively reprefentation of what we have occasion to describe, as furnishes our hearers with a particular, fatisfactory, and complete knowledge of our subject. § 2. A vaft variety of instances of the Hypotypofis might be produced from ancient and modern Writers; but that I may neither, on the one hand, indulge to an extravagant and needlefs profusion, nor, on the other, be wanting in the recital of examples of a Figure fo animated and entertaining, * From UroTurow, I delineate, or represent. entertaining, I fhall mention the following instances. What a magnificent description have we of the Deity in the following verses, afcribed to ORPHEUS? Only to pious minds I fing. Be gone, All ye profane; but thou, MUSEUS, hear, Thou facred offspring of the radiant moon: Truth I declare; nor let thy gen'rous mind, In error long involv'd, deprive thy life: Of its fupreme enjoyment. Eye the Word Divine, and this with all thy might purfue, And let its light direct thine inmoft pow'rs: In the right path unweari'd urge thy way: Contemplate the great Ruler of the world: The GOD is one, with felf-existence crown'd, While nature to his will its being owes, And his pervading prefence always feels Thro' all her realms, tho' never mortal eye Has feen that Gop whofe eye furveys us all. He, tho' of goodness the exhaustless source, Scatters on finful men unnumber'd ills, Wide-wafting war, and forrows drench'd in tears. There's not a potentate on earth but sways His fceptre in dependence on his pow'r. I fee him not in darknefs deep immur'd; Grofs is the keeneft edge of human fight, Nor can we trace that GOD who rules in all. He, on a golden throne, refides in heav'n, Whose pavement, like the polifh'd mirror, fhines: He walks the ample circuit of the earth, His right-hand grafps the wide-extended deep Majeftic mountains, rivers wat'ring wide The pregnant glebe, the ocean's dire abyfs, With billows foaming high, confefs the GOD, I cannot but also admire in the fame light the invocation of ARATUS to JUPITER, in the introduction to his poem, concerning the Stars; in the fifth line of which by the way is that memorable passage, which the Apostle PAUL quotes from him, in his fpeech to the Athenians, Acts xvii. 28. ss For in Him we live, and more, and have our being; as certain also of your own Poets have faid, For we are alfo his offspring." * Φθείξομαι οις θέμις εσι, θυρας δ' επίθεσθε βέβηλοι From Ουλα γαρ χαλκειον ας ουρανόν εξηρικίας From Jove begin the fong. Him all mankind And, careful that his children should not want, The proper time to break the ftubborn earth The trench for plants, and when to caft the feed For he in heav'n has fix'd th' unerring figns, † Εκ Δια αρχωμεθα τον εδέποτ' ανδρες εωμεν T4 It It is a very strong and affecting description of the deep degeneracy of mankind, which we meet with in a poem of CATULLUS. At length the earth with crimes was delug'd o'er, The principles of juftice from their minds. The father wifh'd his eldest fon's decease, Tempted her fon, too young to know the crime; Our Ατρα διακρινάς εσκεψαίο δ' εις ενιαύλου *Sed poftquam tellus fcelere eft imbuta nefando, Omnia |