2 Mitford gives the first line as "E'en now, regardless of his doom;" and just below, on verse 61, he makes the line from Pope read, "The fury Passions from that flood began." We have verified his quotations as far as possible, and have corrected scores of errors in them. Quite likely there are some errors in those we have not been able to verify.
[55.] Yet see, etc. Mitford cites Broome, Ode on Melancholy:
| "While round stern ministers of fate, Pain and Disease and Sorrow, wait;" |
and Otway, Alcibiades, v. 2: "Then enter, ye grim ministers of fate." See also Progress of Poesy, ii. 1: "Man's feeble race," etc.
[59.] Murtherous. The obsolete spelling of murderous, still used in Gray's time.
[61.] The fury Passions. The passions, fierce and cruel as the mythical Furies. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 167: "The fury Passions from that blood began."
[66.] Mitford quotes Spenser, F. Q.:
| "But gnawing Jealousy out of their sight, Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite." |