...from, &c." — Campbell. While Spring1 shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing2 tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport...gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! Collins. TO THE MEMORY OF THOMSON.8 WHILE virgin Spring, by Eden's flood, Unfolds her tender mantle...

...and marks o'er all Thy dewy ringers draw The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his show'rs, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest...shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes ; So long, sure-found beneath the sylvan shed, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, rose-lipp'd Health, Thy gentlest...

...and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest...gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name. COLLINS. Byron sings the evening of Italian skies : — T,he Moon is up, and yet it is not night —...

...o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw . . -, The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest...Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes j . So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest...

...Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! V/hile Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light:...gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name!" — Collins. SECT. IV. OF THE DITHYRAMBIC AND THE CANTATA. thyrambic is to the ode what the ode is...

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...tresses, meekest Eve I While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light ; While sallow Antumn fills thy lap with leaves : Or Winter, yelling through...regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Seience, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name I i Thti i« tho major...

...oft he wont. And bntlie thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Iteaentli thy lingering light ; While sallow Autumn fills thy...train, And rudely rends thy robes ; So long, regardful ol* thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own. COLLINS....

...all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he woi And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While...gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! Ode on the Passions. When Music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The...

...meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light ; While sallow autumn fills thy hip with leaves : Or winter, yelling through the troublous...gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! (COLLINS.) EIO OP PAET III. PART IV. SUBJECTS FOR ORIGINAL EXERCISES. SAPPHICS. 1. In tumulum Virgilii,...