| "numerisque fertur Lege solutis." |
[62.] Their feather-cinctur'd chiefs. Cf. P. L. ix. 1115:
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"Such of late Columbus found the American, so girt With feather'd cincture." |
[64.] Glory pursue. Wakefield remarks that this use of a plural verb after the first of a series of subjects is in Pindar's manner. Warton compares Homer, Il. v. 774:
Dugald Stewart (Philos. of Human Mind) says: "I cannot help remarking the effect of the solemn and uniform flow of verse in this exquisite stanza, in retarding the pronunciation of the reader, so as to arrest his attention to every successive picture, till it has time to produce its proper impression."
[65.] Freedom's holy flame. Cf. Akenside, Pleas. of Imag. i. 468: "Love's holy flame."
| THE VALE OF TEMPE. |
[66.] "Progress of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of Petrarch. The Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their taste there; Spenser imitated the Italian writers; Milton improved on them: but this school expired soon after the Restoration, and a new one arose on the French model, which has subsisted ever since" (Gray).