And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise, V. QUARTETTO. "What is grandeur, what is power? What the bright reward we gain? Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet V. 56. 66 Cui liquidam Pater Vocem." Hor. Od. I. xxiv. 3. W. And so Lucret. v. 1378: "Liquidas voces." And Ovid. Amor. I. xiii. 8. V. 61. Milton. Ep. on M. of Winchest. "Shot up from vernal shower.” Thomson. Spring, "With vernal showers distent." Luke. V. 62. This comparison we find also in Theocr. Id. viii. 83: Κρέσσον μελπομένω τεῦ ἀκουέμεν, ἢ μέλι λείχεν. And in Calphurn. Eclog. iv. ver. 150. These four verses, as Wakefield remarks, were suggested by Milton's Par. Lost, b. iv. ver. 641: "Sweet is the breath of morn," &c.: but see also Theocr. Idyll. . ver. 33: οὔτε γὰρ ὕπνος, Οὔτ ̓ ἔαρ ἐξαπίνας γλυκερώτερον, οὔτε μελίσσαις Opes congestas apium," A. Marcellini. Hist. xviii. 3. V. 63. « And melt away, in a dying, dying fall," Pope. Ode on St. Cecilia. Luke. V. 64. "After the fire, a still small voice,” 1 Kings, xix. 12. And in a rejected stanza of the Elegy: "Hark how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease; VI. RECITATIVE. Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud AIR. Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye, In still small accents whisp'ring from the ground "Now in a still small tone Your dying accents fall." Dryd. Œdip. act ii. 65 70 75 V. 65. "A voice from midst a golden cloud thus mild was heard." Milt. P. L. vi. 27. Luke. V. 66. Countess of Richmond and Derby; the mother of Henry the Seventh, foundress of St. John's and Christ's Colleges. Gray. V. 70. The Countess was a Beaufort, and married to a Tudor: hence the application of this line to the Duke of Grafton, who claims descent from both these families. Gray. V. 71. "Dryden alone escaped his judging eye. وو Pope. Prol. to the Sat. 246. Also: "A face untaught to feign, a judging eye." Pope. Epist. to Craggs, p. 289. "A liberal heart and free from gall." Fuller. Abel Red. p. 314. V. 72. This allusion to the flower and the gem we meet with again in the Elegy. V. 73. "Delubra, et aras cœlitum," Senec. "Coloque educitur ara," Sil. Ital. xv. 388. vorim," Manil. Astr. v. 18. Agam. v. 392. "Araque Di "Lo! Granta waits to lead her blooming band, Not obvious, not obtrusive, she No vulgar praise, no venal incense flings; 80 With modest pride to grace thy youthful brow, The laureate wreath, that Cecil wore, she brings, And to thy just, thy gentle hand, V. 78. Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired." 85 Par. L. viii. 504. W. V. 79. "No hireling she, no prostitute for praise.” Pope. Epist. to Lord Oxford, v. 36. W. V. 82. Πάντων δὲ μάλιστ ̓ αἰσχύνεο σαυτόν, Pythag. Aur. v. 12. W. And so Galen. "De Curatione Morb. Animi: " Σὺ δὲ σαυτὸν αἰδοῦ μάλιστα. V. 83. "Yielded with coy submission, modest pride." Par. Lost, iv. 310. V. 84. Lord Treasurer Burleigh was chancellor of the University in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Gray. Milt. Son. xvi. 9: "And Worcester's laureate wreath." Luke. V. 85. Par. Lost, b. iv. 308, "gentle sway," from Horace, "lenibus imperiis," Epist. I. xviii. 44. W. But the sentiment, as well as expression, was taken from Dryden. Thr. August. 284: "And with a willing hand restores The fasces of the main." Add Milton. Eleg. i. 67: Vos etiam Danaæ fasces submittite nymphæ." Luke. "With the submitted fasces of the main.” Dryden. Astræa. Red. V. 88. See Par. Lost, vii. 559. V. 89. "Well knows to still the wild waves when they roar." Comus, v. 87. W. "The wild waves mastered him." Dryden. An. Mirabilis. V. 92. "Neque altum Semper urguendo, neque, dum procellas Littus iniquum." Submits the fasces of her sway, While spirits blest above and men below VIII. GRAND CHORUS. "Thro' the wild waves as they roar, Thy steady course of honour keep, Hor. Od. II. x. v. 1. W. 90 "Nor let her tempt that deep, nor make the shore." Prior. Ode. V. 93. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, has a similarly beautiful image, v. 645: "The mighty Stagyrite first left the shore, Spread all his sails, and durst the deeps explore; Young, in his "Universal Passion," Sat. vii. v. 169: THE FATAL SISTERS. AN ODE. FROM THE NORSE TONGUE. To be found in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfæus; Hafniæ, 1697, folio; and also in Bartholinus, p. 617, lib. iii. c. 1. 4to. (The song of the Weird Sisters, translated from the Norwegian, written about 1029. Wharton, Ms.) Vitt er orpit fyrir valfalli, &c. In the eleventh century, Sigurd, earl of the Orkney Islands, went with a fleet of ships and a considerable body of troops into Ireland, to the assistance of Sictryg with the Silken beard, who was then making war on his father-in-law Brian, king of Dublin: the earl and all his forces were cut to pieces, and Sictryg was in danger of a total defeat; but the enemy had a greater loss by the death of Brian their king, who fell in the action. On Christmas day (the day of the battle), a native of Caithness in Scotland, of the name of Darrud, saw at a distance a number of persons on horseback riding full speed towards a hill, and seeming to enter into it. Curiosity led him to follow them, till looking through an opening in the rocks, he saw twelve gigantic figures resembling women: they were all employed about a loom; and as they wove, they sung the following dreadful song; which when they had finished, they tore the web into twelve pieces, and (each taking her portion) galloped six to the north, and as many to the south. These were the Valkyriur, female divinities, Parcæ Militares, servants of Odin (or Woden) in the Gothic mythology. Their name signifies Choosers of the slain. They were mounted on swift horses, with drawn swords in their hands; and in the throng of battle selected such as were destined to slaughter, and conducted them to Valkalla, the hall of Odin, or paradise of the brave; where they attended the banquet, and served the departed heroes with horns of mead and ale: their numbers are not agreed upon, some authors representing them as six, some as four. See Magni Beronii diss. de Eddis Islandicis, p. 145, in Elrichs. 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