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* Or feen the Morning's well-appointed Star
Come marching up the eastern hills afar.

Cowley,

+ Extenfive influence of poetic Genius over the remotest and most uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erfe, Norwegian, and Welch Fragments, the Lapland and American fongs.]

"Extra anni folifque vias”

Virgil.

"Tutta lontana dal camin del fole." Petrarch, Canzon 2.

And

And oft, beneath the od'rous fhade

Of Chili's boundless forefts laid,

She deigns to hear the favage Youth repeat

In loose numbers wildly sweet

Their feather-cinctured Chiefs, and dusky Loves.

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Progrefs of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of

Dante

Fields, that cool Iliffus laves,

Or where Mæander's amber waves

In lingering Lab'rinths creep,

How do your tuneful Echo's languish,

Mute, but to the voice of Anguish?

Where each old poetic Mountain

Inspiration breath'd around :

Ev'ry fhade and hallow'd Fountain

Murmur'd deep a folemn found :

Dante or of Petrarch. The Earl of Surrey and Sir Tho. Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their tafte there; Spenfer imitated the Italian writers; Milton improved on them but this School expired foon after the Reftoration, and

:

a new one arofe on the French model, which has fubfifted ever

fince.

Till

Till the fad Nine in Greece's evil hour

Left their Parnaffus for the Latian plains.

Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant-Power,
And coward Vice, that revels in her chains.
When Latium had her lofty spirit lost,

They fought, oh Albion! next thy fea-encircled

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Far from the fun and fummer-gale,

In thy green lap was Nature's * Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon stray'd,

To Him the mighty Mother did unveil

Her aweful face: The dauntless Child

Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smiled.

* Shakespear.

This pencil take (fhe faid) whofe colours clear

Richly paint the vernal year:

Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy!

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