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Ovid. Metam. v. 388: "Silva coronat aquas." And Seneca
Edip. 488: "Naxos Ægæo redimita Ponto." And Jortin,
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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.

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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.

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V. 73. "Like that poetic mountain to be hight," G.
West. Educ. C. 1. Luke.

V. 75. Virg. Ecl. i. 53, "fontes sacros.' Luke.
V. 80. "Servitude that hugs her chain," Ode on the
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"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
Richly paint the vernal year:

Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy!
This can unlock the gates of joy;

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Dulce rideat."

V. 89. Milton. P. L. v. 24, "How nature paints her colours." Luke.

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"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:

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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.

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Semine ab æthereo, spirantes naribus ignem."
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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
Mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant.'

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

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