Joy Rul'd The Day, And Love The

We By Art Unteach What Nature Taught.

There Is An Inimitable Grace In Virgil's Words, And In Them Principally Consists That Beauty Which Gives So Inexpressible A Pleasure To Him Who Best Understands Their Force. This Diction Of His, I Must Once Again Say, Is Never To Be Copied; And Since It Cannot, He Will Appear But Lame In The Best Translation.

If Passion Rules, How Weak Does Reason Prove!

Whatever Is, Is In Its Causes Just.

And Love's The Noblest Frailty Of The Mind.