NOT Ę S. PAGE 44. O'er-canopies the glade.] O'er-canopied with lufcious woodbine. P. 45. And float amid the liquid noon,] Nare per æftatem liquidam Virgil. Georg. lib. 4. Ibid. Quick-glancing to the fun.] fporting with quick glance, Shew to the fun their wav'd coats dropt with gold. Milton's Paradife Loft, book 7. Ibid. To Contemplation's fober eye.] Page 55. Her HENRY's holy fhade.] King HENRY the Sixth, founder of the College. P. 56. And, redolent of joy and youth.] P. 59. And moody Madness laughing wild.] Hatton, preferred by Queen Elizabeth for his graceful perfon and fine Dancing. P. 71. Styack] The Houfe-keeper. P. 72. Squib] Groom of the Chambers. Ibid. Groom] The Steward. Ibid. Macleane] A famous Highwayman hanged the week before, P. 83. Awake, Æolian lyre, awake.] Awake, my glory: awake, lute and harp. Pindar ftyles his own poetry, with its mufical accompanyments, Αιολίς μολπή Αἰολίδες χορδαίς χορδαίς Αἰολίδων πνοαι αὐλῶν. Æolian fong, Eolian ftrings, the breath of the Eolian flute. The fubject and fimile, as ufual with Pindar, are here united. The various fources of poetry, which gives life and luftre to all it touches, are here defcribed; as well in its quiet majestic progrefs enriching every fubject (otherwife dry and barren) with all the pomp of diction, and luxuriant harmony of numbers; as in its more rapid and irrefiftible courfe, when fwoln and hurried away by the conflict of tumultuous paffions. P. 84. Ob! Sovereign of the willing foul.] Power of harmony to calm the turbulent paffions of the foul. The thoughts are borrowed from the firft Pythian of Pindar. Ibid. Perching on the fceptred hand.] This is a weak imitation of fome beautiful lines in the fame ode. P. 85. Thee the voice, the dance obey.1 Power of harmony to produce all the of motion in the body. graces P P. 85. Glance their many-twinkling feet.] P. 86. The bloom of young defire, and purple light of Love.] Δάμπει δ ̓ ἐπὶ πορφυρέησι Παρείησι φῶς ἔρωτα. PHRYNICUS, apud Athenæum. Ibid. Man's feeble race what ills await!] To compenfate the real or imaginary ills of life, the Mufe was given us by the fame Providence that fends the day, by its cheerful prefence to difpel the gloom and terrors of the night. Ibid. Till down the eastern cliffs afar.] Or feen the Morning's well-appointed star P. 87. In climes beyond the folar road.] Extenfive influence of poetic genius over the remoteft and moft uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erfe, Norwegian, and Welfh Fragments, the Lapland and American fongs, &c.] "Extra "Extra anni folifque vias" VIRGIL. "Tutta lontana dal camin del fole." PETRARCH, Canzon 2. P. 87. Woods that wave o'er Delphi's freep.] Progrefs of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of Petrarch. The Earl of Surry and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their tafte there. Spenfer imitated the Italian writers, and Milton improved on them but this school expired foon after the Restoration, and a new one arofe on the French model, which has fubfifted ever since. P. 89. Nature's darling.] Shakespeare. Ibid. Nor fecond he, that rode fublime.] Milton. Ibid. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time.] flammantia monia mundi." LUCRETIUS. P.90. The living throne, the sapphire blaze. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. And above the firmament that was |