Tends the courser's noble breed,
Pleased to nurse the pregnant mare,
Pleased to train the youthful steed."

Pindar says of Pelops, that "he came alone in the dark to the White
Sea;" and West--

"Near the billow-beaten side
Of the foam-besilvered main,
Darkling, and alone, he stood:"

which, however, is less exuberant than the former passage.

A work of this kind must, in a minute examination, discover many
imperfections; but West's version, so far as I have considered it,
appears to be the product of great labour and great abilities.

His "Institution of the Garter" (1742) is written with sufficient
knowledge of the manners that prevailed in the age to which it is
referred, and with great elegance of diction; but, for want of a
process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the
reader from weariness.

His "Imitations of Spenser" are very successfully performed, both
with respect to the metre, the language, and the fiction; and being
engaged at once by the excellence of the sentiments, and the
artifice of the copy, the mind has two amusements together. But
such compositions are not to be reckoned among the great
achievements of intellect, because their effect is local and
temporary; they appeal not to reason or passion, but to memory, and