NOTES
ON THE FIRST PART.
NOTE I.
Hence o'er the spot, where rest the storied dead, &c.
THE influence of association is thus finely depictured by Akenside.
"Such is the secret union, when we feelA song, a flower, a name, at once restoreThose long connected scenes, where first they movedThe attention; backward thro her mazy walksGuiding the wanton fancy to her scope,To temples, courts, or fields, with all the bandOf painted forms, of passions and designsAttendant; whence, if pleasing in itself,
