and frequent, looks ever dejectedal from my tongue, by no meaning ted! sad del ris dred or asw[me? v-swains, how these symptoms befell t reply not-Sure Delia will tell me!

when we parted, swore e spring he would return

er some lines from a manuscript of Dr. e intended to insert in his Ode to Fancy, aced within the inverted commas: erse while methinks I rove penser through a fairy grove, m by powerful Dante led dark chambers of the dead,

towers where pine

s of famish'd Ugoline;

he Tuscan wizard's power ted to Alcina's bower'

ch thou lov'st to sit at eve,

S.

om came trooping at thy call

rits from their airy hall,

ea and earth, from heaven and hell,

Tecate, and sweet Ariel.'

the request of Miss Speed, to an old air of

[This Song is in this edition printed from the copy as it appears in H. Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Ailesbury. See his Works, vol. v. p. 561.]

Var. V. 3. Yon violet flower] In Mr. Park's edition "the
opening flower."

V. 5. 'Twas the lark] In Mr. Park's edition, this and
the following line are transposed.

V. 8. Why this] In Mr. Park's edition, "why such."
V. 9. Western, &c.] In Mr. Park's edition, these lines
are printed thus:

"Gentle gales and sky serene

Prove not always winter past."

Geminiani:-the thought from the French. This and the preceding Poem were presented by Miss Speed, then Countess de Viry, to the Rev. Mr. Leman, of Suffolk, while on a visit at her castle in Savoy, where she died in 1783. Admiral Sir T. Duckworth, whose father was vicar of Stoke from 1756 to 1794, remembers Gray and Miss Speed at that place. Gray left Stoke about the year 1758, on the death of his aunt Mrs. Rogers: when his acquaintance with Miss Speed probably closed.

THUS Toph

Whilst frig

TOPHET

AN EPIGRAM.

look'd; so grinn'd the brawling fiend, ed prelates bow'd and call'd him friend.

Our mother-church, with half-averted sight,
Blush'd as she bless'd her griesly proselyte;
Hosannas rung through hell's tremendous borders,
And Satan's self had thoughts of taking orders.*

SUGGESTED BY A RUINS OF A

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*The Rev. Henry Etough, of Cambridge University, the person satirized, was as remarkable for the eccentricities of his character, as for his personal appearance. Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an etching of his head, and presented it to Gray, who embellished it with the above lines. Information respecting Mr. Etough, (who was rector of Therfield, Herts, and of Colmworth, Bedfordshire, and patronized by Sir Robert Walpole,) may be found in the Gentleman's Magaz. vol. lvi. p. 25. 281; and in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the xviiith Century, vol. viii. p. 261, and Brydges' Restituta, vol. iv. p. 246, and Polwhele's Recollect. i. 212. Etough was originally a Jew, but renounced his religion for the sake of a valuable living. To understand the second line, it is necessary to inform you, that Tophet kept the conscience of the minister." See Neville. Imit. of Horace, p. 59. "The slanderous pests, the ETOUGHS of the age." See an account of Dr. Etough in Coxe's Life of Sir R. Walpole, vol. i. p. xxvi. 'Etough was a man of great research and eager curiosity, replete with prejudice, but idolizing Sir R. Walpole, &c.”

[Written at Dentor Select Poems, v mata, p. 196.]

OLD, and aband Here H

To smuggle a f A broken ch

On this conge Earl Good sand;

Here sea-gull And marine

Here reign tl No tree is

Var. V. 2. Fo V.9. Dr

Dallawa that this hou imitation of superintende Lord Newbo

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