[33] Dryden, Ecl. x. 11.
And echo, from the vales, the tuneful voice rebound.—Wakefield.
[34] In place of this couplet the original manuscript read,
Ye fountain nymphs, propitious to the swain,
Now grant me Phœbus', or Alexis' strain.
Pope imitated Virgil, Ecl. vii. 21:
Mihi carmen,
Quale meo Codro, concedite: proxima Phœbi
Versibus ille facit.
[35] George Granville, afterwards Lord Lansdowne, known for his poems, most of which he composed very young, and proposed Waller as his model.—Pope.
[36] Virgil, Ecl. iii. 86:
Pascite taurum,
Qui cornu petat, et pedibus jam spargat arenam.—Pope.
Dryden, Æn. ix. 859: