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THE PROGRESS OF POESY.

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He gives to range the dreary sky;
Till down the eastern cliffs afar^{[V 1]}
Hyperion's march they spy, and glitt'ring shafts of war.

"One would have thought 't had heard the morning crow, Or seen her well-appointed star Come marching up the eastern hills afar." In Gray's Letter to Dr. Wharton, containing a Journal of bis Tour to the Lakes, he says: "While I was here, a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east," &c. Mason's ed. 4. p. 175, and Warton's Note on Milton, p. 304. ^{[N 1]}^{[N 2]}Variants

↑ Var. V. 52.
"Till fierce Hyperion from afar
Pours on their scatter'd rear, his glitt'ring shafts of war,
Hurls at their flying,
Hurlso'erheirscatter'd
Pours on theirshadowy
Till o'ertheirfrom far
Ilyperion hurls around his." MS.

Notes

↑ V. 53. In Mant's edition of Warton (vol. ii. p. 41), and Steevens's note on Hamlet, (act i. sc. 2), it is remarked that all the English poets are guilty of the same false quantity, with regard to this word, except Akenside, as quoted by Mant, Hymn to the Naiads, 46; and the author of 'Fuimus Troes' by Steevens. See Dodsley. Old Plays, vii. p. 500. The assertions, however, of these learned editors are not correct; as will appear from the following quotations:
"That Hyperion far beyond his bed
Doth see our lions ramp, our roses spread."
Drummond (of Hawthornd.) Wand. Muses, p. 180.
Then Hyperion's son, pure fount of day,
Did to his children the strange tale reveal."
West. Pindar, 01. viii. 22. p. 63.

Gray has used this word again with the same quantity Hymn to Ignorance, v. 12: "Thrice hath Hyperion roll'd
his annual race."^{[C 1]}
↑ V. 53. "Non radii solis, neque lucida tela diei," Lucret.

Footnotes to footnotes

↑ The old English Poets (as Jortin remarks) did not regard quantity. Spenser has Iole, Pylades, Caphǎreus, Rbatean, Amphion. Gascoyne in his "Ultimum Vale:"

[1] Var. V. 52.
"Till fierce Hyperion from afar
Pours on their scatter'd rear, his glitt'ring shafts of war,
Hurls at their flying,
Hurlso'erheirscatter'd
Pours on theirshadowy
Till o'ertheirfrom far
Ilyperion hurls around his." MS.

[3] V. 53. In Mant's edition of Warton (vol. ii. p. 41), and Steevens's note on Hamlet, (act i. sc. 2), it is remarked that all the English poets are guilty of the same false quantity, with regard to this word, except Akenside, as quoted by Mant, Hymn to the Naiads, 46; and the author of 'Fuimus Troes' by Steevens. See Dodsley. Old Plays, vii. p. 500. The assertions, however, of these learned editors are not correct; as will appear from the following quotations:
"That Hyperion far beyond his bed
Doth see our lions ramp, our roses spread."
Drummond (of Hawthornd.) Wand. Muses, p. 180.
Then Hyperion's son, pure fount of day,
Did to his children the strange tale reveal."
West. Pindar, 01. viii. 22. p. 63.

Gray has used this word again with the same quantity Hymn to Ignorance, v. 12: "Thrice hath Hyperion roll'd
his annual race."^{[C 1]}

[4] V. 53. "Non radii solis, neque lucida tela diei," Lucret.

[p29-2] The old English Poets (as Jortin remarks) did not regard quantity. Spenser has Iole, Pylades, Caphǎreus, Rbatean, Amphion. Gascoyne in his "Ultimum Vale:"

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