Wil A Lig The Il. 7. 91. is said by Homer to be the daughter of Jupiter: V. 3. "Affliction's iron flail." Fletcher. Purp. Isl. ix. 28. Ibid. In Wakefield's note, he remarks an impropriety in the poet joining to a material image, the "torturing hour." If there be an impropriety in this, it must rest with Milton, from whom Gray borrowed the verse: when the scourge Par. Lost, ii. 90. Inexorably, and the torturing hour, But this mode of speech is authorized by ancient and Tres imbris torti radios, tres nubis aquosæ In Par. Lost, x. 297, as the original punctuation stood : This punctuation is now altered in most of the editions. The new reading was proposed by Dr. Pearce. Αδαμαντίνων δεσμῶν ἐν ἀῤῥήκτοις πέδαις· Prom. vi. W., from whom Milton. Par. L. i. 48: mantine chains, and penal fire." And the exprescurs also in the Works of Spenser, Drummond, and Drayton. See Todd's note on Milton. , "In ine chains shall Death be bound," Pope. Messiah, and lastly, Manil. Astron. lib. i. 921. And BoisPhilost. Heroic, p. 405. "Till some new tyrant lifts his purple hand," wo Choruses, ver. 23. Wakefield cites Horace, lib. xv. 12: " Purpurei metuunt tyranni." Add Tasso. b. c. vii. Luke. "Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt bePar. L. ii. 703. An expression similar to this occurs in Sidney. vol. iii. p. 100: Ill fortune, my awful gover By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. Wisdom in sable garb array'd, Immers'd in rapt'rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : No With TH Warm Charity, the gen'ral friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, 30 Thy T The Tea Ex What 35 Lost Also, "The common people swarm like summer flies, V. 25. V. 28. "O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.' Il Penser. 43. W. "So leaden eyes." Sidney. Astroph. Poems, p. 87. And dge of thyself alone, for none there were ld be so just, or could be so severe. وو 66 Ode on Ben Jonson, p. 71, vol. ii. Forgiving o himself severe," Dryden. Misc. vi. 322. "The riend unto himself severe," Waller. Poems, p. 149. I to all, but to himself severe," E. Smith. El. on s, v. Lintot. Misc. p. 161. "Ours be the lenient, not unpleasing tear," ThomRogers quotes Dryden. Virg. Æn. x. "a sadlythought." Gorgoneum turpes crinem mutavit in hydros. Nunc quoque, ut attonitos formidine terreat hostes." Ovid. Met. iv. 801. |