| —"tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius." |
"The first great metropolis of Hellenic intellectual life was Miletus on the Mæander. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines, Cadmus, Hecatæus, etc., were all Milesians" (Hales).
[71] foll. Cf. Milton, Hymn on Nativ. 181:
| "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent:" etc. |
[75.] Hallowed fountain. Cf. Virgil, Ecl. i. 53: "fontes sacros."
[76.] The MS. has "Murmur'd a celestial sound."
[80.] Vice that revels in her chains. In his Ode for Music, 6, Gray has "Servitude that hugs her chain."
[81.] Hales quotes Collins, Ode to Simplicity:
| "While Rome could none esteem But Virtue's patriot theme, You lov'd her hills, and led her laureate band; But staid to sing alone To one distinguish'd throne, And turn'd thy face, and fled her alter'd land." |
[84.] Nature's darling. "Shakespeare" (Gray). Cf. Cleveland, Poems: