Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, 135 NOTES. "Her angel's face As the great eye of Heaven shined bright." Spenser's F. Queen, cant. iii. Ovid. Met. iv. 228: “Mundi oculus." And Milton's Il. Pens. ver. 141: "Hide me from day's garish eye." Par. Lost, b. v. ver. 171: "Thou sun of this great world, both soul." Ver. 126. Fierce war, and faithful love] "Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song." eye and Spenser's Proëme to the Fairy Queen. GRAY. Ver. 127. And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest] T. Warton, vol. i. p. 32. "And thus a cherub-voice," Ver. 128. In buskin'd measures move] Shakspeare. GRAY. Ver. 133. And distant Milton's time. GRAY. "Blooming in immortal prime, By gales of Eden ever fann'd." Wart. Poems, ii. 62. warblings lessen on my ear] The succession of poets after Ver. 135. Fond impious] This apostrophe with its imagery seems taken from Vida : GREEK EPIGRAM. (See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 45.) Αζόμενος πολύθηρον ἐκηβόλου ἄλσος ἀνάσσας, FINIS. S. Hamilton, Printer, Weybridge, Surrey. |