ἐν γὰρ ἐκείνῳ Πᾶσα χθων, ἅτε νῆσος ἀπείριτος ἐστεφανῶται. Cyclades sparsas ubi Naxos inter Surgit Egeo redimita Ponto." V. 69. "There Susa by Choaspes, amber stream," Par. Reg. iii. 288. "Rolls o'er Elysian flow'rs her amber stream," Par. Lost, iii. 359. Callimachi Cer. 29: -τὸ δ ̓, ὥστ ̓ ἀλέκτρινον ὕδωρ, ἐξ ἀμαρᾶν ἀνέθυε. W. Far In they What To Her a V.8 V.8 express Stat. སཀཱ The "Purior electro To which add Eurip. Hipp. ver. 741. campum petit amnis," Virg. Georg. iii. 520 V. 70. "Non secus ac liquidis Phrygiis Mæandros in arvis Ludit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque," Ov. Met. viii. 162. V. 71. In the Quarterly Review for July, 1814, p. 314, some lines are quoted from Addison's letter from Italy, containing an idea similar to these of Gray: Poetic fields encompass me around," &c. V. 73. "Like that poetic mountain to be hight," G. V. 75. Virg. Ecl. i. 53, "fontes sacros.' Luke. "Piu lontan del Ciel," Dante, Il Inferno, c. ix. "Nature's darling." Shakespeare. Gray.-This -n occurs in Cleveland. Poems, p. 314: "Here lies within this stony shade, Nature's darling; whom she made Her fairest model, her brief story, In him heaping all her glory." b. iv. 786," At puer in gremio vernæ telluris." flowery May, who from her green lap throws llow cowslip, and the pale primrose." Milton. Son. on May Morn. Gray. Senec. Thyest. 129, "gelido flumine lucidus AlLuke. "The mighty mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings." Pope. Dunc. i. 1. 1 of fogs dilates her awful face.' Id. i. 262. W. Virg. Georg. i. 466, by Dryden : the green turf thy careless limbs display, celebrate the mighty mother's day." "Animosus infans," Hor. iii. 4. 20. Luke. Wake-s to Virg. Eclog. iv. 60: " Incipe, parve puer, Oscere matrem." And Berdinore, in his Literary nces, p. 40, to the description of the infant Her"heoc. Idyll. xxiv. 55. But the two lines in Gray Stretch'd forth his little arms and smil'd. "This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy! Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or 90 The liv Where He sa Cloe'd Behold ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears." III. 2. are the same as two in Sandys. Ovid, p. 78, ed. 12mo. (see Metam. iv. 515.) Matris e gremio suæ Porrigens teneras manus, Dulce rideat." V. 89. Milton. P. L. v. 24, "How nature paints her colours." Luke. V. 91. Similar, perhaps, ka@apàv ȧvoížav τα κλῆδα φρενῶν· WE Eurip. Med. 658. Ambe "He On th V The key of human hearts. Young. Resig. "Yet some there be, that with due steps aspire To lay their hands upon that golden key That opes the palace of eternity." Milton. Com. 13. W. V. 92. See Soph. Antig. v. 803. V. 95. Milton. P. L. vi. 771. Gray. V. 97. This alludes to Milton's own picture of himself: Up led by thee Into the Heaven of Heavens, I have presum'd An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air." Par. L. vii. 12, also Eleg. v. 15. Milt V "In W 267 Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, 'he cherub Contemplation." Il Pens. ver. 53. on a sapphire throne inlaid, with pure nd colours of the showery arch." Par. L. vi. 758. he wings of cherub rode sublime, ystalline sky, in sapphire thron'd." Ibid. ver. 771. "Dark with excess of bright thy skirts appear." L. iii. 380. Luke. · Οφθαλμῶν μὲν ἄμερσε· δίδου δ' ἠδεῖαν ἀοιδὴν. Hom. Od. e. ver. 64. Gray. nam clauduntur lumina noctem," Virg. Æn. x. 746. I closed her lids, at last, in endless night." Dryden. See Pope. account of Dryden, Ep. I. b. ii. ver. aller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join varying verse, the full resounding line, ong majestick march, and energy divine." "Ethereal race" is a phrase of Pope, v. Hom. With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding V. 106. "Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" Job. This verse and the foregoing are meant to express the stately march and sounding energy of Dryden's rhymes. "Currum, geminosque jugales Gray. Semine ab æthereo, spirantes naribus ignem." S Var. fight بی Con IV. V. 110. "Words that weep, and tears that speak," Cowley, Prophet, vol. i. p. 113. Gray. "Her words burn as fire," Eccles. ix. 10. Rogers. "Oaths are burning words," Dekker. Satirom. p. 65, 4to. V. 111. We have had i. our language no other odes of the sublime kind, than that of Dryden on St. Cecilia's Day; for Cowley, who had his merit, yet wanted judgment, style, and harmony, for such a task. That of Pope is not worthy of so great a man. Mr. Mason indeed, of late days, has touched the true chords, and with a masterly hand, in some of his choruses; above all in the last of Caractacus: "Hark! heard ye not yon footstep dread?" &c. Gray. V. 113. So Elegy, st, xii: “Or wake to extasy the living lyre." And Lucret. ii. 412; "Ac Musæa mele per chordas organicei quæ And Callimach. Hymn. Del. 312. W. V. 114. " They shape his ample pinions swift as darted flame," Young. N. Thoughts. V. 115. Atos Tрòç öρvixa delov, Olymp. ii. 159. Pindar compares himself to that bird, and his enemies to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while it pursues its |