...out their 1 [Gray to Walpole, Works, vol. ii. p. 20.] ODE ON THE SPRING 461 old stories to the winds. At the foot of one of these squats me I (il penseroso),...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there." l The scene is repeated in the Elegy — There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its...

...that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds. . . . The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there." The beauty-spot which the poet thus discovered to the world has many interesting associations. We read...

...ME I (il penseroso), and there grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sporting squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. In this situation I often converse with my Horace, aloud, too, that is, talk to you, but I do not remember...

...ME I (U penseroso), and there grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sporting squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. In this situation I often converse with my Horace, aloud, too, that is, talk to you, but I do not remember...

...himself in happy seclusion among the Burnham Beeches : "At the foot of one of these squats me, I (// Penseroso) and there grow to the trunk for a whole...did not use to read Virgil as I commonly do there. ' ' The Burnham Beeches were, also, within easy reach from West-End House, which was situated in the...

...grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me lile Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. Jn this situation I often converse with my Horace, aloud tco, that is talk to you, but I do not remember...

...decrees of fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf and swarm on every bough. me like Adam in paradise before he had an Eve ; but...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. In this situation I often converse with my Horace,0 aloud too, that is talk to you, but I do not remember...

.... that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds ... At the foot of one of these squats me I, (il penseroso)...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there.' * He may have been indebted to Hammond's Love Elegies for the idea of the epitaph and the contemplation...

.... that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds ... At the foot of one of these squats me I, (il penseroso)...did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there.' ' He may have been indebted to Hammond's Love Elegies for the idea of the epitaph and the contemplation...

...timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve, but 1 think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do. More than a century and a half later Edmund Gosse would refer to this celebrated passage as "the first...