ssions to the translation of
Stephens:

The silent world does view
Her airy chariot pearled with drops of dew.]

[Footnote 85: He again borrowed from Stephens:

And nodding through the air brings down in haste
A sweet forgetfulness of labour passed.]

[Footnote 86: A very faulty expression; as also below, verse
501,--"rolls a deluge on."--WARTON.

He copied Dryden's Virg. AEn. iv. 638:

As when the winds their airy quarrel try.

He was indebted to a second couplet in the same translation, AEn. ii.
565:

Thus, when the rival winds their quarrel try,
Contending for the kingdom of the sky.]

[Footnote 87: "Showers" is an inappropriate word to denote the deluge of
rain which flooded the earth, and "swept herds, and hinds, and houses to
the main."]

[Footnote 88: The Inachus, and the Erasinus were rivers in the plain of
Argos.]

[Footnote 89: The waters of the Lerna were infected by the venom from
the serpent Hydra, which Hercules slew.]

[Footnote 90: The storm, by blowing down trees or branches, made an
opening in the dense foliage through which the sun had never
penetrated.]

[Footnote 91: In the first edition:

The prince with wonder did the waste behold,
While from torn rocks the massy fragments rolled.]

[Footnote 92: Dryden's Virg. AEn. ii. 413:

The shepherd climbs the cliff, and sees from far
The wasteful ravage of the wat'ry war.]

[Footnote 93: Dryden's Virg. Geor. i. 652:

Bore houses, herds, and lab'ring hinds away.]

[Footnote 94: Statius represents Polynices as terrified by the tempest.
Pope appears to have thought that this was derogatory to the character
of the fugitive king, and he calls him, when gazing on the ravages
caused by the storm, "the intrepid Theban," which conveys the impression
that he was undaunted by the spectacle. In the same spirit Pope at ver.
527, has the line, "Thus still his _courage_ with his toils increased,"
where the original says that the stimulus which urged him on was fear.
But while Pope has obliterated the alarm which was generated by the
tempest he has introduced in its place an alarm which had no existence.
In the midst of the havoc worked by the elements the recollection of his
brother "wings the feet" of the intrepid Theban "with fears," though he
is beyond his brother's reach, and has no suspicion at present that he
designs to break the compact to reign alternately. The influence which