Full many a sprightly race Who foremost now delight to cleave, The captive linnet which enthral ? To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, Var. V. 29. "To chase the hoop's elusive speed." мs. 66 Say, father Thames, whose gentle pace Perhaps both poets thought of Cowley, vol. i. p. 117: 35 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 And unknown regions dare descry: Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, The sunshine of the breast: And lively cheer, of vigour born; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. V. 30. "The senator at cricket urge the ball.” Pope. Dun. iv. 592. V. 37. This line is taken from Cowley. Pindarique Ode to Hobbes, iv. 7. p. 223: "Till unknown regions it des cries." V. 40. "Magnaque post lachrymas etiamnum gaudia pallent." Stat. Theb. i. 620: For other expressions of this nature, see Wakefield's note. Add Sil. Ital. xvi. 432, "lætoque pavore." Luke. V. 44. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind." Pope. Eloisa, ver. 209. Add Essay on Man, iv. 167, "The soul's calm sunshine." V. 47. "In either cheeke depeyncten lively cheere," Spenser. Hobbinol's Dittie, ver. 33. W. See Milton. Ps. lxxxiv. 5. "With joy and gladsome cheer." Luke. V. 49. The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air." Pope. Im. of Horace, I. 73; Hor. Od. ii. xi. 7. facilemque somnum :" and Par. L. v. 5: 66 His sleep Was airy light, from pure digestion bred, Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see, how all around 'em wait And black Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To sieze their prey, the murth'rous band! These shall the fury Passions tear, 55 60 The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind; Or pineing Love shall waste their youth, 65 V. 51. "E'en now, regardless of his doom, Applauding honour haunts his tomb." 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, And Otway. Alcib. act v. sc. 2. grim ministers of fate." "Then enter, ye V. 61. "The fury Passions from that flood began." See Pope. Essay on Man, iii. 167. V. 63. "Exsanguisque Metus," Stat. Theb. vii. 49. And from him Milton. Quint. Novemb. 148: 66 Exsanguisque 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. That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow; Lo! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen, 66 V. 68. "With praise enough for Envy to look wan.” Milton. Son. to Lawes, xiii. 6. W. Par. L. i. 601, sate on his faded cheek." Luke. 70 75 80 Care V. 69. Gray has here imitated Shakespeare. Richard III. act i. sc. 1: (6 Grim-visag'd War." and Com. of Err. act v. sc. 1: "A moody and dull melancholy kinsman to grim and comfortless Despair." Yarrington (Two Trag. in one) "Grim-visag'd despair." Todd. V. 76. Affected Kindness with an alter'd face," Dryden. Hind. and Panth. part iii. V. 79. "Madness laughing in his ireful mood:" Dryden. Pal. and Arc. (b. ii. p. 43. ed. Aik.) Gray. And so K. Hen. VI. p. 1. act iv. sc. 2: "But rather moody mad." And act iii. sc. 1: 'Moody fury." Chaucer. Knyghte's Tale, 1152. V. 81. "Declin'd into the vale of years," Othello, act iii. sc. 3. Compare also Virg. Æn. vi. 275. The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints, this fires the veins, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. 85 90 Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, 95 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 genus." Hor. Od. 1. iii. 30, "Nova febrium terris incubuit 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: 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, motoros 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. 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