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GRAY'S POEMS
Variants
Notes
- ↑ V. 61. Cowley has a couplet with similar imagery, vol i. p. 254:And Oldham in his Ode to Homer, stan. iii."On he went, and in his van confusion and amaze,
While horror and affright brought up the rear." Swift. - ↑ V. 62. "Care sat on his faded cheek." V. Milt. P. L. i. 601.
- ↑ V. 64. Death of that king, abandoned by his children, and even robbed in his last moments by his courtiers and his mistress. Gray.
"Lo! there the mighty warrior lies." Oldham. D. of Saul. - ↑ V. 65. The same words, with the same elliptical expression, occur in the Instal. Ode, vi:On this ellipsis see Jortin, Obs, on Spenser: Tracts, vol i. p. 91."Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye,
The flower unheeded shall descry." - ↑ V. 67. Edward the Black Prince, dead some time before his father. Gray.