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THE PROGRESS OF POESY.

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In loose numbers wildly sweet,
Their feather-cinctur'd chiefs, and dusky loves.
Her track, where'er the goddess roves,
Glory pursue, and gen'rous Shame, 64
Th' unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame

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Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep,

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Notes

↑ V. 59. "Earth was to them a boundless forest wild." Thoms. C. of Ind. c. ii. st. xiv. Luke.
↑ V. 61. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native woodnotes wild." Milton, L'Alleg. 138. W. Hor. Od. iv. ii. 12, "Numerisque fertur lege solutis,"
↑ V. 62. "Girt with feather'd cincture." Par. L. ix. 1116.
↑ V. 62. "Reap their own fruits, and woo their sable loves." Pope, Winds. For, 410. Gray's epithet, as Dr. Warton remarks, is the more correct. He has used it again; "The dusky people drive before the gale," Frag, on Educ. and Gover. v. 105.
↑ V. 64. This use of the verb plural, after the first substantive is in Pindar's manner, Nem. x. 91. Pyth. 4. 318. lom. 11. E. 774. W. "I cannot help remarking (says Dugald Stewart, Philos. of the Human Mind, vol. i. p. 505, 8vo.) the effect of the solemn and uniform flow of verse in this exquisite stanza, in retarding the pronunciation of the reader, so as to arrest his attention to every successive pictute, till it bas time to produce its proper impression."
↑ V. 65. Akens. Pl. of Im. i. 468 Love's holy flame." Luke. "The unconquerable mind," is in Hor. Od. ii. 1. 22. "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, præter atrocem animum Catonis."
↑ V. 66. Progress 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 Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their taste there. Spenser imitated the Italian writers; Milton improved on them but this school expired soon after the Restoration, and a new one arose on the French model, which has subsisted ever since. Gray.
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving."
Milton. Hymn to Nativ, xix W

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[1] V. 59. "Earth was to them a boundless forest wild." Thoms. C. of Ind. c. ii. st. xiv. Luke.

[2] V. 61. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native woodnotes wild." Milton, L'Alleg. 138. W. Hor. Od. iv. ii. 12, "Numerisque fertur lege solutis,"

[3] V. 62. "Girt with feather'd cincture." Par. L. ix. 1116.

[4] V. 62. "Reap their own fruits, and woo their sable loves." Pope, Winds. For, 410. Gray's epithet, as Dr. Warton remarks, is the more correct. He has used it again; "The dusky people drive before the gale," Frag, on Educ. and Gover. v. 105.

[5] V. 64. This use of the verb plural, after the first substantive is in Pindar's manner, Nem. x. 91. Pyth. 4. 318. lom. 11. E. 774. W. "I cannot help remarking (says Dugald Stewart, Philos. of the Human Mind, vol. i. p. 505, 8vo.) the effect of the solemn and uniform flow of verse in this exquisite stanza, in retarding the pronunciation of the reader, so as to arrest his attention to every successive pictute, till it bas time to produce its proper impression."

[6] V. 65. Akens. Pl. of Im. i. 468 Love's holy flame." Luke. "The unconquerable mind," is in Hor. Od. ii. 1. 22. "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, præter atrocem animum Catonis."

[7] V. 66. Progress 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 Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their taste there. Spenser imitated the Italian writers; Milton improved on them but this school expired soon after the Restoration, and a new one arose on the French model, which has subsisted ever since. Gray.
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving."
Milton. Hymn to Nativ, xix W

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