Johnson and Wakefield. See Todd's Ed. of Comus, Gray, however, could have defended it by the of the ancient poets. See Ovid Metam. ix. 98: tamen ablati domuit jactura decoris." And Statii I. v. 30: Unius amissi tetigit jactura leonis." Liv. 185: "Jura silent, mutaque tacent sine vinges." In Jortin's Tracts, vol. i. p. 269, some exof such redundant expressions are collected from eek and Latin poets. See on this subject also the f Burmann on Propertius, lib. iv. El. vii. v. 69; on Met. ii. 66, and on Poem. Lotichii, lib. i. el. 8. the Prog. of Poesy, I. i. 5: "The laughing flowers nd them blow." "Azure flowers," v. Drummond. es. Luke.

5. Thomson, in his Spring, v. 400, with equal speaking of fish:

in whose ample wave Le little Naiads love to sport at large."

Through richest purple to the view
Betray'd a golden gleam.

The hapless nymph with wonder saw :
A whisker first, and then a claw,

With many an ardent wish,

She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize.
What female heart can gold despise ?

What Cat's averse to fish?

Presumptuous maid! with looks intent
Again she stretch'd, again she bent,
Nor knew the gulf between.
(Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd)
The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil❜d,
She tumbled headlong in.

Var. V. 24. "A foe to fish." First edit.
V. 25. Looks] Eyes. мs.

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25

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V. 17. "Aureus ipse; sed in foliis, quæ plurima circum
Funduntur, violæ sublucet purpura nigræ."

Virg. Georg. iv. 274.

W.

V. 18. "His shining horns diffus'd a golden gleam," Pope. Winds. For. 331. "And lucid amber casts a golden gleam," Temp. of Fame, 253,

V. 42. This proverbial expression was a favourite among the old English poets:

"But all thing, which that shineth as the gold,

Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told."

See Chaucer. Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16430. Tyr-
whitt refers to the Parabola of Alanus de Insulis, quoted
by Leyser, Hist. Poet. Med. Æv. 1074: "Non teneas
aurum, totum quod splendet ut aurum." Among the poems
published with Lord Surrey's, p. 226, edit. 1717:
"Not
every glist'ring gives the gold, that greedy folk desire." In
the Paradise of Dainty Devises, "No Foe to a Flatterer,"

print), is this line: "But now I see all is not gold, ereth in the eye." In England's Helicon, p. 194: not gold, that shineth bright in show." Spenser. 1, ii. 8. 14: "Yet gold all is not, that doth golden

ery thinge that gives, a gleame and glitt'ring showe, ounted gold indeede, this proverbe well you knowe." erville. Answer of a Woman to her Lover, st. iv. All as they say, that glitters is not gold."

Dryden. H. and Panther. poem was written later than the first, third, and les, but was arranged by Gray in this place, in his

Lon.

[See Musæ Etonenses, vol. i. p. 229, and Brit. Bibliogra-
pher, vol. ii. p. 214.]

YE distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wat❜ry glade,
Where grateful Science still adores
Her Henry's holy shade;

And ye, that from the stately brow
Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below
Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,

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*This, as Mason informs us, was the first English production of Gray which appeared in print. It was published in folio, in 1747, and appeared again in Dodsley. Col. vol. ii. p. 267, without the name of the author. A Latin poem by him, On the Prince of Wales's Marriage, had appeared in the Cambridge Collection, in 1736, which is inserted in this edition.

V. 2.

"Haunt the watery glade."

Pope. Wind. For. Luke. + King Henry the Sixth, founder of the College. V. 4. So in the Bard, ii. 3: " And spare the meek usurper's holy head." And in Install. Ode, iv. 12: "the murder'd saint." So Rich. III. ac. v. sc. 1: Holy King Heury." And act iv. sc. iv: "When holy Henry died." This epithet has a peculiar propriety, as Henry the Sixth, though never canonized, was regarded as a saint. See Barrington on the Statutes, p. 416, and Douce. Illust. of Shakesp. ii. 38. "Yea and holy Henry lying at Windsor." Barclay. Eclog. p. 4. fol.

D." The vale of Thames fair-winding up." Thoms. -17. Fenton in his Ode to Lord Gower, which was by Pope and Akenside, had these two lines, iii. 1: 'Or if invok'd where Thames's fruitful tides Slow thro' the vale in silver volumes play." . vol. v. p. 87: "Silver-streaming Thames." "L'Aura gentil che rasserena i poggi Destando i fior per questo ombroso bosco Al soavesuo spirto riconosco." Petrarca, Son. clxi.

. "And bees their honey redolent of spring," Dry"able on the Pythag. System. Gray.-" And every redolent of spring," L. Welsted's Poems, p. 23. It also in the Memoirs of Europe towards the Close Eighth Century, by Mrs. Manly, 1716, vol. ii. p. 67: ovely Endimion, redolent of youth." See Todd, in a Sams. Agonist. (Milton, vol. iv. p. 410).

1. This invocation is taken from Green's Grotto: Isley. Col. vol. v. p. 159.