To breakfast, and keep festival to-day.
NOTES.
[Note 1, page 4, line 10.]
At each return of spring: yet some delight, &c.
An adventitious beauty, arising from that gradual decay, which loosens the withering leaf, gilds the autumnal landscape with a temporary splendor superior to the verdure of spring, or the luxuriance of summer. The infinitely various and ever-changing hues of the leaves at this season, melting into every soft gradation of tint and shade, have long engaged the imitation of the painter, and are equally happy ornaments in the description of the poet.—Aikin’s Essay on the Character of Thompson’s Seasons, prefixed to his edition of them, 1791.
[Note 2, p. 10, line 7.]
Rechasing, lest his tender ewes should coath.