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THE PROGRESS OF POESY.
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From Helicon's harmonious springsA thousand rills their mazy progress take:The laughing flowers that round them blow, 5Drink life and fragrance as they flow.Now the rich stream of music winds along,Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong,


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    and its more rapid and irresistible course, when swoln and hurried away by the conflict of tumultuous passions. Gray.

  1. ↑ V. 3. Thomson has joined the subject and simile in passage strongly resembling this:
    "In thy full language speaking mighty things,Like a clear torrent close, or else diffus'dA broad majestic stream, and rolling onThro' all the winding harmony of sound."Liberty, ii. 257.
    And see Quinctil. Inst. xii. 10. 61. "At ille qui saxa devolvat," &c.
    In Huntingford, Apology for his Monostrophics, p. 80 referred to by Wakefield, several passages of Pindar are pointed out, to which he supposes that Gray alluded, viz. Ol. ii. 62. 229. vii. 12. xii. 6.
  2. ↑ V. 4 "The melting voice through mazes running."
    Milt. L'Allegro, 142. Luke.
  3. ↑ V. 5. Albaque de viridi riserunt lilia prato," Petron. cap. 127. "Ridenti colocasia fundet acantho," Virg. Ecl. iv. 20; and Achilles Tatius has the expression, rÙ méruhov Tμ Lepúpy yeλñ. See Burm. ad Ovid. v. ii. p. 1023.
  4. ↑ V. 6. "Bibunt violaria fontem," Virg. Georg. iv. ver. 32. W.
    "And mounting in loose robes the skiesShed light and fragrance as she flies."Green. Spleen, v. 79.
  5. ↑ V. 7. This couplet seems to have been suggested by some lines of Pope. Hor. Epist. II. ii. 171:
    "Pour the full tide of eloquence along,Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong."
    Wakefield refers to Pope. Cecilia, 10:
    "While in more lengthen'd notes, and slow,The deep majestic solemn organs blow."
    Dr. Berdmore of the Charter-House, in his pamphlet on Literary Resemblance, p. 16, supposes that Gray had Horace in his mind. Od. III. xxix. 32.
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