The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.—Gray.
Lumenque juventæ purpureum.—Virgil. Æn. I. 590.
And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Gray: Alliance of Education and Government.
For this expression Gray was indebted to Virgil:—
Non eadem arboribus pendet vindemia nostris, &c.—Georg. ii. 89.
The attic warbler pours her throat.—Gray: Ode to Spring.
Is it for thee the linnet pours her throat?—Pope: Essay on Man.
Gray says concerning the blindness of Milton,—