...And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...

...And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...

...And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...

...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's...ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty, Some bold adventurers...

...And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers...

...From modem times we have the evidence of Gray that Eton boys bowled hoops in the eighteenth century : What idle progeny succeed / To chase the rolling circle's speed / Or urge the flying ball? ('Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'). 89 Eur., Medea, 46; Dio Chrys. XII, 37; Sex. Emp. I,...

...motion. 2 i 10 I lines 21-30 Say, Father THAMES, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Desporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace,...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? I1 See HOMER 1 n 8. Cf C's con- epithets" in the Preface to Poems demnation of his own use of "double-...

...effects such as "less pleasing — thoughtless — regardless"), from a deceptive and confusing syntax ("While some on earnest business bent / Their murm'ring...hours, that bring constraint / To sweeten liberty"), and from a punning vocabulary (such as "bent" and "ply," which describe the "earnest business" in terms...

...mid-eighteenth-century poetry; the other is taken from a poem by Wordsworth. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College) In the sweet shire of Cardigan, Not far from...

...of complex effects: What passion cannot music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? Thus Thomas Gray recalls boyhood games without having to use the low vernacular "hoop." Wordsworth,...