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Notes.

GRAY'S ETON EXERCISE

AND POPE.

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For me kind nature wakes her genial pow'r,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flow'r ;
Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew
The juice nectareous and the balmy dew:
For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings;
For me, health gushes from a thousand springs;
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise;
My footstool earth, my canopy the skies."

Gray's equivalent is pretty close :-
Et quodcunque videt, proprios assumit in usus.
Me propter jam vere expergefacta virescit
Natura in flores, herbisque illudit, amatque
Pingere telluris gremium, mihi vinea fetu
Purpureo turget, dulcique rubescit honore ;
Me rosa, me propter liquidos exhalat odores;
Luna mihi pallet, mihi Olympum Phoebus
inaurat,

Sidera mi lucent, volvunturque aequora ponti.
Incidentally these lines, like others later,
show Gray's acquaintance with Lucretius.
Let us proceed with Pope :

:

What would this Man? Now upward would he

soar,

And little less than angel, would be more;
Now looking downward just as grieved appears
To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears.
Gray has :-

Plurimus (hic error demensque libido lacessit)
In superos coelumque ruit, sedesque relinquit,
Quas Natura dedit proprias, jussitque tueri.
Humani sortem generis pars altera luget,
Invidet armento et campi se vindicat herbam.
"Oh quis me in pecoris felicia transferat arva."
continues his Man, who after adopting a
whole line straight from Lucretius, asks
why he has not a lynx's eye :-
"Cur mihi non lyncisve oculi, vel odora canum
vis

Additur, aut gressus cursu glomerare potestas!
Aspice ubi tenues dum texit aranea casses,
Funditur in telam et late per stamina vivit !
Quid mihi non tactus eadem exquisita facultas
Taurorumve tori solidi, pennaeque volucrum.'
This recalls :-

THIS note is intended to catch the eye of
some future editor or biographer of the
poet Gray. As far as the writer is aware,
the close connexion in thought and language
between Gray's Latin Poem, designated
'Play-exercise at Eton,' and the First
Epistle of Pope's 'Essay on Man' has never
been noticed, or at least is nowhere set
forth. But it is of interest because it shows
that Gray read the Essay, or the first part
of it, at Eton, and that he based his play-and
exercise almost entirely on it. Gray went
to Eton in 1727, and entered Peterhouse in
July 1734. The first part of the Essay
was published in 1733, anonymously, and in
1734 Pope avowed himself its author.
Gray therefore, if he read it at Eton, must

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the lynx's beam.... And hound sagacious on the tainted green.... The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread and lives along the line. (Gray clearly liked his Latin for this last line for it occurs again in another Latin poem

comes the answer, which we will give first Ram: Smithfield.

in Pope's words :

Say what the use were finer optics giv'n,

To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n?
Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,
To smart or agonize at ev'ry pore?

Or quick effluvia darting through the brain,
Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

If nature thundered in his op'ning ears

And stunned him with the music of the spheres.. which Gray converts into

Pertaesos sortis doceant responsa silere.
Si tanto valeas contendere acumine visus,
Et graciles penetrare atomos ; non aethera possis
Suspicere aut late spatium comprendere ponti.
Vis si adsit major naris? quam, vane, doleres,
Extinctus fragranti aura, dulcique veneno!
Si tactus, tremat hoc corpus, solidoque dolore
Ardeat in membris nervoque laboret in omni:
Sive auris, fragor exanimet, cum rumpitur igne.
Fulmineo coelum, totusque admurmurat aether

Minor and more general similarities to
Pope may be detected elsewhere in Gray's
Latin; but these are the obvious ones.
C. W. BRODRIBB.

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Huntingdon, Potten, Southam. Red Lyon: Bishopsgate Street Without. Carrier. F.

Waltham Abbey.

Red Lyon: Red Cross Street.

Carrier.

F.

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Rose Holborn Bridge.

Carriers.

M. Th. Winchester. Th.

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Allsford (? Alresford), Marlborough, Pool, Rumsey. W. Bristol.

Rose Smithfield.

Coaches.

Pewter Platter: St. John Street

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Derby. Th. Kettering.

Kettering. Th. Simpton.

Amphil. Th. Bedford.

Rose and Crown: St. John Street.

Carriers.

W.

Bocking.

F. Braintree.

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Every day. Barking.

Carriers.

Th.

Ashford, Langley. W. F. Maidstone.

T. S.

W.

Carriers.

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Hereford.

Longfield.

Brickhill.

F. Cirencester.

Queen's Head: Southwark.

M. W. S. Arundel. T. Th. Guildford. M. Th. Godalmin, Petersfield. F. Pulborough.

M.

Ram: Fenchurch Street.

Coaches.

Every day.

Carriers.

Th.

Isle of Wight.

Blackheath, Deptford.

Beardfield (?), Finchingfield.

Layton Buzzard. F. Gloucester.

Saracen's Head: Friday Street.

Exeter. Th. S. Abingdon.

Coaches. M. W. F.

M.

Taunton.

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W. Farringdon.

S. Dorchester.

Plymouth. M. Falmouth.
Wantage.

Columpton, Dorchester, Totnes.

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Malling.

White Horse: Cripplegate.

Carriers.

M.

Th. F.

Anwick (? Alnwick),

Darlington,

Hexham, Newcastle, Richmond.
Bradford.

Hallifax [sic], Otley, Tadcaster,
Wakefield.

*White Horse: Fleet Street.

Coaches.

Every day. Brentford, Twickenham, Windsor. M. Th. Andover, Dorchester. W. Alden

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