...pamphlet on Literary Resemblance, p. 16, supposes that Gray had Horace in his mind. Od. III. xxix. 32. Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign : Now rolling down the steep amain, 10 Headlong, impetuous, see it pour ; The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. i. 2. Oh !...

...trembling strings. From Helicon's ' harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers that round them blow, Drink life...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'2 golden reign : Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...

...trembling strings. tFrom Helicon's harmonious springs, A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life...music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...

...trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow. Drink life...music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...

...Poesy 23 From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: (1. 3—4) 24 Now the rich stream of Music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, (1. 7—8) 25 O Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs. Enchanting...

...trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: 5 The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life...strong. Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: 1 0 Now rolling down the steep amain. Headlong, impetuous see it pour, The rocks and nodding groves...

...cumulative surge at the start of "The Progress of Poesy": A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres's golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...

...and burlesques Thomas Gray's "Progress of Poesy," written in imitation of the hero-praising Pindar: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (1757; ed. Lonsdale, 163) For too long, British poetry had neglected its epic quest to linger idly...

...trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...

...trembling firings. From Helicon's harmonious fprings A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take: -t The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooih, and ftrong, Thro' Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres'...