Goddess! awake, arise! alas, my fears! Oh! sacred age! Oh! times for ever lost! High on her car, behold the grandam ride * * a team of harness'd monarchs bend EDUC See Mason's 35 Ούτι πα Against my sway her pious hand stretch'd out, And so in the Dunciad, b. i. ver. 80 : " "All these, and more, the cloud-compelling queen V. 25. an exquis not have mented t was not d which na quiries, him? ED The sparks 10 With sense So draw mankind in vain the vital airs, And scatter with a free, though frugal hand, They follow Their judgm The event The soft ret P 15 By fraud el While mutu To check their tender hopes with chilling fear, 20 This spacious animated scene survey, The social s Fix, and in From where the rolling orb, that gives the day, 25 There lang Oft o'er t Has Scyt And, whe Var. V. 19. But tyranny has] Gloomy sway have. мs. V. 9. "Vitales auras carpis," Virg. Æn. i. 387. Luke. V. 14. "And lavish nature laughs and throws her stores around," Dryden. Virgil, vii. 76. Luke. 66 V. 21. Destroy the promise of the youthful year," Luke. "Cim V. 48. So Claudian calls it, Bell. Getico, 641, brica tempestas." Pope. Hom. Od. 5, 303, "And next a Their arm As oft ha Res 30 s of truth and happiness has giv'n: e to feel, with memory to retain, w pleasure, and they fly from pain; ment mends the plan their fancy draws, presages, and explores the cause; turns of gratitude they know, lude, by force repel the foe; ual wishes, mutual woes endear smile, the sympathetic tear. n, through ages by what fate confin'd t climes seem different souls assign'd? ur'd laws and philosophic ease mprove the polish'd arts of peace; stry and gain their vigils keep, 35 40 The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast. 55 EDUCATIO Must sick'ning vir Who, conscious of By reason's light, 60 The stubborn ele Their little want 65 Th' encroaching tide that drowns her lessening Var. V. 55. Heav'ns] Skies. Ms. "The fair complexion of the blue-eyed warriors of Germany formed a singular contrast with the swarthy or olive hue, which is derived from the neighbourhood of the torrid zone.' Gibbon. Rom. Hist. iii. 337. Ausonius gives them this distinguished feature: "Oculos cœrula, flava comas," De Bissula. 17. p. 341. ed. Tollii. "Carula quis stupuit Germani lumina," Juv. Sat. xiii. 164. Mirantur nemora et rorantes Sole racemos.' Statius. v. Plin. Nat. H. 1. xiii. c. ii. 1. V. 54. V. 56. Milton. Arcades. 32, " And ye, ye breathing roses of the wood." Luke. And raise the m Not but the h As various tract Foes to the ge V. 57. Claud makes the Got Quid palmiti collibus uvas, pendentes vitib demia," Virg. V. 66. A Wh V.91. |