...at evening, pale and gone." (PRIOR.) EXEECISE CXLII. PROGRESS OF POESY. Awake, JEolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings ! From...strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign : Headlong impetuous, see it pour : The rocks, and nodding groves, rebellow to the roar. Woods that...

...Literary Magaz. 1757, p. 422 ; at p. 466 of the same work, is an Ode to Gray on his Pindaric Odes. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills...take : The laughing flowers that round them blow, 5 Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic,...

...Literary Magaz. 1757, p. 422 ; at p. 466 of the same work, is an Ode to Gray on his Pindaric Odes. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills...progress take : The laughing flowers that round them hlow, 5 Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic,...

...Man. 1 See note, Macbeth, p. 149. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. PINDARIC. I. 1. Awake, JEolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'2 golden reign : Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour : The rocks...

...he plunged to endless night. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. A PINDARIC ODE. I. AWAKE, JEolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From...springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : * Shakspeare. -f- Milton. The succession of poets after Milton's time. The laughing flowers that...

...all thy trembling ftrings, From Helicon's harmonious fprings, A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take; The laughing flowers, that round them blow,...Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooth, and ftrong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'...

...p. 337. " Felices aninue gens jam dcfuncta pencils 7/umaiiij." — Vida's Chriftiad. lib. vi. 870. " The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow." Ode on the Progreu of Potty. It seems almost a pity to dissect these marvellously beautiful lines....

...thunder." " They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way." " Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong" " From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder !" Q. Who have been most distinguished...

...we may well apply the beautiful lines of Gray in the commencement of his " Progress of Poesy:" — " From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills...Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign ; Now rushing down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour; The rocks and nodding groves rebellow...

...Ode to Gray on his From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : -s" The laughing flowers, that round them blow, « Drink...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, more rapid and irresistible course, when swoln and hurried away by the confliet of tumultuous passions....