Say, father Thames, whose gentle pace
Gives leave to view, what beauties grace
Your flowery banks, if you have seen.'

Perhaps both poets thought of Cowley, vol. i. p. 117:
Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say,
Have you not seen us walking every day."

Dryden. An. Mirab. St. ccxxxii. "Old father Thames
rais'd up his reverend head."

V. 23. " By slow Mæander's margent green." Milton Com. 232.

W.

V. 24. "To virtue, in the paths of pleasure trod." Pope. Essay on Man, iii. 233.

V. 26. "On the glassy wave." Todd. ed. of Comus, p. 118. V. 27. This expression has been noticed as tautologous. Thomson, on the same subject, uses somewhat redundant language, Spring, 702:

Inhuman caught; and in the narrow cage
From liberty confined and boundless air."

Magnaque post lachrymas etiamnum gaudia Stat. Theb. i. 620: For other expressions of this see Wakefield's note. Add Sil. Ital. xvi. 432, e pavore." Luke.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind." Pope. er. 209. Add Essay on Man, iv. 167, "The soul's shine."

"In either cheeke depeyncten lively cheere," SpenDinol's Dittie, ver. 33. W. See Milton. Ps. lxxxiv. hjoy and gladsome cheer." Luke.

"The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air." . of Horace, I. 73; Hor. Od. ii. xi. 7. " facilemum :" and Par. L. v. 5:

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His sleep

as airy light, from pure digestion bred, nd temperate vapours bland."

Collins. Ode on the Death of Col. Ross, 4th stanza of his first manuscript.

V. 55. These two lines resemble two in Broome. Ode on

Melancholy, p. 28:

"While round, stern ministers of fate, Pain, and Disease, and Sorrow wait." And Otway. Alcib. act v. sc. 2. p. 84: Then enter, ye grim ministers of fate."

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V. 61. "The fury Passions from that flood began.' Pope. Essay on Man, iii. 167.

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V. 63. ""
Exsanguisque Metus," Stat. Theb. vii. 49.
And from him Milton. Quint. Novemb. 148: "Exsan-
guisque Horror." Pers. Sat. iii. v. 115, "Timor albus."
V. 66. "But gnawing Jealousy out of their sight,
Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite."

Spenser. F. Q. vi. 23.

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V. 83. "Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of Pain," Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 118. Dryden. State of Innoc. act v. sc. i: "With all the numerous family of Death." Claudian uses language not dissimilar: Cons. Honor. vi. 323: "Inferno stridentes agmine Morbi." And Juv. Sat. x. 218: "Circumsedit agmine facto Morborum omne geHor. Od. 1. iii. 30, " Nova febrium terris incubuit

nus." cohors."

V. 84. See T. Warton's Milt. p. 432, 434, 511. V. 90. "His slow-consuming fires." Shenstone. Love and Honour.

V. 95. We meet with the same thought in Milton. Com. ver. 359:

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Peace, brother; be not over-exquisite

To cast the fashion of uncertain evils;

For grant they be so, while they rest unknown,
What need a man forestall his date of grief?" W.
V. 98. Soph. Ajax, v. 555 : Ἐν τῷ Φρονεῖν γαρ μηδεν,
Hotoros Bios. W. See Kidd's note to Hor. Ep. xi. 2. 140.
V. 99. See Prior, (Ep. to Hon. C. Montague, st. ix.)
"From ignorance our comfort flows,

The only wretched are the wise."-Luke.
Add Davenant. Just Italian, p. 32, "Since knowledge is but