[67.] To wade through slaughter, etc. Cf. Pope, Temp. of Fame, 347:
"And swam to empire through the purple flood."
[68.] Cf. Shakes. Hen. V. iii. 3:
"The gates of mercy shall be all shut up."
[70.] To quench the blushes, etc. Cf. Shakes. W. T. iv. 3:
"Come, quench your blushes, and present yourself."
[73.] Far from the madding crowd's, etc. Rogers quotes Drummond:
"Far from the madding worldling's hoarse discords."
Mitford points out "the ambiguity of this couplet, which indeed gives a sense exactly contrary to that intended; to avoid which one must break the grammatical construction." The poet's meaning is, however, clear enough.
[75.] Wakefield quotes Pope, Epitaph on Fenton: