gardless of their noise. Gray. See Spenser. F. Q. Like to an eagle in his kingly pride aring thro' his wide empire of the aire weather his brode sailes." i. 166. ed. Hurd.) in his Translation of Hor. Od. ls Pindar" the Theban swan: ! how the obsequious wind and swelling air Theban swan does upward bear." uple of Fame, 210, has copied Horace, and yoked to the car of the poet : our swans sustain a car of silver bright." erdmore, Specimens of Lit. Resemblance, p. 102. Eurip. Med. 1294: iç ailepos Báloç. "Cœli nnius apud Non Marcell. 3. 92. Lucret. ii. 151. Aeris in magnum fertur mare." W. Oppian. - 497: ρος ὑψιπόροισιν ἐπιπλωούσι κελεύθοις. Athens, act iv. sc. 2. p. 126. ed. Steevens: sea of air." And Cowley's Poems: "Row ackless ocean of the air." See the observation of D. Stewart, Philosophy an Mind, p. 486: "that Gray, in describing e reveries of poetical genius, has fixed with exgement on that class of our conceptions which from visible objects." And see also his Philosays, p. 231. There is a passage in Sir W. say on Poetry, vol. iii. p. 402, which has been o have been the origin of this passage. See s Mag. vol. lxi. p. 91. With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, 120 Beneath the Good how far-but far above the Great. Var. V. 122. "Yet never can he fear a vulgar fate." Ms. Tho' f The Helm Nor e To Fro Such Of As do THE BARD. A PINDARIC ODE. [This Ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward the First, when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. Gray. (See Barrington on the Statutes, p. 358; Jones's Relics, vol. i. p. 38; Sayer's Essays, p. 20.) I. 1. "RUIN seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait; V. 120. Spenser. Hymn : With much more orient hew." "I have sometimes thought (says Prof. D. Stewart,) that in the last line of the following passage, Gray had in view the two different effects of words already described; the effect of some, in awakening the powers of conception and imagination; and that of others in exciting associated emotions, "Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." V. Elem. of the Phil. of the H. Mind, vol. i. p. 507. V. 1. Shakes. Hen. VI. 2nd part, act i. sc. 3: "See, ruthless Queen, a hapless father's tears." Luke. "Confusion waits." K. John, IV. sc. ult. Rogers. "Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, And fan our people cold." Macbeth, act i. sc. 2. "Mocking the air with colours idly spread." King John, act v. sc. 1. Gray. The hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or terwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat close to y, and adapted itself to every motion. Gray. "With helm and hauberk." Rob. of Gloucester, vol. i. p. 297. berks and helms are hew'd with many a wound,' . Pal. and Arcite, lib. iii. v. 1879. Fairfax in his of Tasso, has joined these words in many places: o vii. 38: "Now at his helm, now at his hauberk See also p. 193, 199, 299, edition 1624, folio. "Within her secret mind," v. Dryden. En. iv. Rogers. "The crested adder's pride." Dryden. Indian Queen. Gray. . Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that nous tract which the Welsh themselves call Crairi: it included all the highlands of Caernarvond Merionethshire, as far east as the river Conway. den, speaking of the castle of Conway, built by dward the First, says, "Ad ortum amnis Conway m montis Erery;" and Matthew of Westminster, - 1283) "Apud Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowecit erigi castrum forte." Gray. pithet "shaggy," applied to "Snowdon's side," is ppropriate, as Leland says that great woods clothed He wound with toilsome march his long array. Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance: "To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair 15* O'er R Toc To H the different parts of the mountain in his time: see Itin. v. 45. Dyer. Ruins of Rome, p. 137: "as Britannia's oaks On Merlin's mount, or Snowdon's rugged sides, V. 12. "In long array," Dryden. E. xi. Rogers. V. 13. Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son-in-law to King Edward. Gray. V. 14. Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. Gray. They both were Lord Marchers, whose lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the king in this expedition. Gray. Hastam quassatque trementem," Virg. Æn. xii. 94. Luke. V. 15. Hom. II. Y. ver. 151: 'E' oopúσi kaλλikowνnc. And Mosch. Id. ii. 48: 'Eπ' oppvos aiyiaλoło. Ap. Rhod. i. ver. 178. St. Luke, iv. 29. And Virg. Georg. i. 108: "Ecce supercilio clivosi tramitis." W. " A huge aspiring rock, whose surly brow," Daniel. Civ. Wars, p. 58. V. 16. "Above the foamy flood," v. Dyer. R. of Rome. Luke. V. 17. "Perpetuo mærore, et nigra veste senescant," Juvenal. Sat. x. 245. W. Also Propert. Eleg. IV. vii. 28 : "Atram quis lacrymis incaluisse togam." Senec. H. Fur. 694, "aterque luctus sequitur." V. 19. The image was taken from a well-known picture of Raphael, representing the Supreme Being in the vision iel. There are two of these paintings, both believed riginals, one at Florence, the other in the Duke o s' collection at Paris. Gray. 0. "Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind." Par. L. i. ver. 535. W. See Todd's note. "The meteors of a troubled heaven," Shakesp. K. Henry IV. pt. i. act i. sc. 1. Luke. mentions a passage very similar to the one in the "The circumference of his snowy beard like the ng rays of a meteor appeared," Persian Tales of Inaol. ii. p. 41. This image is often used metaphoris Stat. Theb. iii. 332. And see Manil. Astron. i. , in his Perkin Warbeck, p. 25, ed. Weber: Of this wild comet conjur'd into France." 5. "The stream that down the distant rocks hoarse ing fell." Thomson. Luke. 7. See some observations on the poetical and proper ' vocal," as used by Gray in this place, in Huntingpolog. for the Monostr. p. 31. 8. Hoel is called high-born, being the son of Owen ld, prince of North Wales, by Finnog, an Irish He was one of his father's generals in his wars the English, Flemings, and Normans, in South and was a famous bard, as his poems that are extify. See Evan. Spec. p. 26, 4to.; and Jones. vol. ii. p. 36, where he is called the "Princely |