tracing it borrowed from the second Italian school.-Drayton, Fairfax, Phineas Fletcher, Golding, Phaer, &c. This school ends in Milton. A third Italian school, full of conceit, began in Queen Elizabeth's reign, continued under James, and Charles the First, by Donne, Crashaw, Cleveland; carried to its height by Cowley, and ending perhaps in Sprat. PART V. School of France, introduced after the Restoration.Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, and Pope,-which has continued to our own times. You will observe that my idea was in some measure taken from a scribbled paper of Pope, of which I believe you have a copy. You will also see, I had excluded Dramatic poetry entirely; which if you had taken in, it would at least double the bulk and labour of your book. I am, sir, with great esteem, Your most humble and obedient servant, Pembroke Hall, April 15, 1770. Note. There is a most objectionable Classification of the Poets in Dr. J. Warton's Essay on Pope. v. Ded. V. 1. P 12. ODES. I. ON THE SPRING. [The original manuscript title given by Gray to this Ode, was 'Noontide.' It appeared for the first time in Dodsley's Collection, vol. ii. p. 271, under the title of 'Ode.' See Meleager's Ode to Spring, and Jones. Comm. Poes. Asiaticæ. p. 411. This Ode is formed on Horace's Ode ad Sestium, i. iv. Translated into Latin in Musæ Etonens. vol. ii. p. 60.] Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, NOTES And wake the purple year! Ver. 1. "The Graces, and the rosy-bosom'd Hours." Milton. Comus, v. 984. W. Thoms. Spring, 1007. V. 2. So Homer. Hymn. ad Vener. ii. 5: τὴν δὲ χρυσάμπυκες ὥραι Δέξαντ ̓ ἀσπασίως περὶ δ ̓ ἄμβροτα εἵματα ἔσσαν. The Hours also are joined with Venus in the Hymn. ad Apollin. v. 194. And Hesiod places them in her train : ἄμφι δὲ τήνγε Ωραι καλλίκομοι στέφον ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι. Erg. ver. 75. V. 3. "At that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers." Pope. Temple of Fame, b. i. v. 1. W.-In some editions, expected" is printed for " The flowers that expecting." in its womb expecting lie." Dryden. Astræa Redux. Rogers. V. 4. Apuleius. Nuptiis Cupid. et Psyc. vi. p. 427, ed. Oudendorp: " Hora, rosis, et cæteris floribus purpurabant The Attic warbler pours her throat, The untaught harmony of spring : Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think 5 10 15 omnia." Also in the Pervigil. Vener. v. 13: “ Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum floribus." Pope has the same expression in his Past. i. 28: "And lavish Nature paints the purple year." Gales that wake the purple year." Mallet. Zephyr. V. 5. Martial. Epig. i. 54: sacer Atthide lucus." apud Fabrettum, p. 702: bit Attica Aedon." And 66 6. "Sic ubi multisona fervet Also in the Epitaphium Athenaidos "Cum te, nate, fleo, planctus daAttica volucris." Propert. II. xvi. Ovid. Halieut. v. 110: "Attica avis vernâ sub tempestate queratus." Add. Senecæ Herc. Et. v. 200. And Milton. Par. R. iv. 245: "The Attic bird trills her thickwarbled notes." The expression pours her throat" is from Pope. Essay on Man, iii. 33: Is it for thee the linnet pours her throat?" So Ovid. Trist. iii. 12. 8. “ Indocilique loquax gutture vernat avis." V.7. V. 10. 66 "The hollow Cuckoo sings The symphony of Spring." Thoms. Spring. Luke. -"Fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods." Par. L. viii. 515. v. Comus. v. 989. and P. L. iv. 327. "Cool zephyr." Luke. V. 12. Milton. Par. L. iv. 246: "The unpierc'd shade (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! Still is the toiling hand of Care; Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air Var. V. 19. "How low, how indigent the proud, 20 So these lines appeared in Dodsley. The variation, as Mason informs us, was subsequently made, to avoid the point "little and great." imbrown'd the noontide bowers." "And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods," Pope. Eloisa, 170. W.—Thomson. Cast. of Ind. i. 38: " Or Autumn's varied shades imbrown the walls." V. 13. " A bank o'ercanopied with luscious woodbine." Mids. N. Dr. act ii. sc. 2. Gray. "The beech shall yield a cool safe canopy." Fletcher. Purpl. Is. i. v. 30. And T. Warton's note on Milton's Comus, v. 543. V. 15. "The rushy-fringed bank." Comus. Luke. V. 22. "Patula pecus omne sub ulmo est," Pers. Sat. iii. 6. W.-But Gray seems to have imitated Pope. Past. ii. 86: "The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove:" "Jam pastor umbras cum grege languido Rivumque fessus quærit." Hor. lib. III. Od. xxix. 21. V. 23. Thomson. Autumn, 836: "Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play the swallow-people." And Walton. Complete Angler, p. 260: " Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing.' Add Beaumont. Psyche, st. lxxxviii. p. 46: "Every tree empeopled was with birds of softest throats.' so Alciphr. Ep. p. 341. dýμov öλov öpvɛwv. and Max. Tyr. See Reiske's note, p. 82. The busy murmur glows! To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: V. 24. Thus Milton. Par. R. iv. 248: "The sound of bees' industrious murmur." Wakefield quotes Thomson. Spr. 506: "Thro' the soft air the busy nations fly." And, 649: "But restless hurry thro' the busy air." Compare also Pope. T. of Fame, 294. V. 25. "Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold." Pope. Rape of the Lock, ii. 59. W. This expression may have been suggested by a line in Green's Hermitage, quoted in Gray's Letter to Walpole: (see note at ver. 31.) "From maggot-youth thro' change of state V. 26. See Milton, as quoted by Wakefield: Il Pen. 142, Lycid. 140, Sams. Ag. 1066, V. 27. Nare per æstatem liquidam," Georg. iv. 59. Gray. To which, add Georg. i. 404; and Æn. v. 525; x. 272. 980. "There I suck the liquid air." Milton. Comus, v. V. 30. "Sporting with quick glance, shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropp'd with gold," Par. L. vii. 410. Gray.See also Pope. Hom. ll. ii. 557; and Essay on Man, iii. 55. V. 31. While insects from the threshold preach," Green, in the Grotto. Dodsley. Misc. v. p. 161. Gray.— |