"Cf. 'There is many a [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Both poems deal with the subject of genius which circumstances have prevented from flourishing, and both may be related to Plato's discussion of education and its effect on 'virtue', which G. was reading at this time and commenting on in his Commonplace Book (see headnote to Education and Government, p. 89 above, and Elegy 65-6 n). Observe that Gray praises Hampden more than Cromwell, who was at that time still generally misunderstood. - Egerton MS." E. Gosse, 1884. Dryden's translation, Latter Part of the 3rd Book of Lucretius 76-9: 'But to be snatch'd from all thy household joys, / From thy Chast Wife, and thy dear prattling boys, / Whose little arms about thy Legs are cast, / And climbing for a Kiss prevent their Mothers hast'; and Thomson's imitation, Winter 311-6: 'In vain for him the officious wife prepares / The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; / In vain his little children, peeping out / Into the mingling storm, demand their sire / With tears of artless innocence. 114.2 through] "thro Eton, with by [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Hendrickson, 1966. But in Richard II. 1919]. 18.3 twittering] "A frequent epithet for the [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. The text followed here is that printed in 1753, which contains G.'s final revisions, the proofs of which he evidently corrected (Corresp i 364) and from which he directed the text in 1768 to be printed. Mason says it was omitted because Gray thought that it was ''too long a parenthesis in this place.'' 1919]. 'th'accustom'd Oke', Il Penseroso 60.". If Dodsley don't do this immediately, he may as well let it alone.' Starr/J.R. 41.2 storied] "inscribed or illustrated." "Perhaps in imitation of Ovid, Metamorphoses v 550: ignavus bubo (slothful owl). "The glorious Milton rested for some time in a cottage in the little village of Chalfont St. Giles, where he finished Paradise Lost. "Incense hallowd in Eton, with kindled at written below.". The stanza is here [in this edition] replaced in brackets, although it is conceivable that Gray may have rejected it, because, though the day is completed by it, it is not completed in sequence. 53.8 serene,] "bright and clear." 1926]. "Mitford gives these parallels (the exact references are due to Dr Phelps): William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (London, 1659, Book IV. "After this line Eton has There scatter'd oft, the earliest deleted; see 116 n below.". Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. / Distinction fails: and in the darkening west, / The last light quivering, dimly dies away.'". "Annals of the Poor, a pretty book by Leigh Richmond [(1772-1827)], author also of the Dairyman's Daughter, takes its title and motto from this line and stanza, as Dr Bradshaw reminds us.". 57.2 village-Hampden,] "Cato. 100.". If G. himself had told him that he began the poem in 1742, Mason would surely have said so. "These two stanzas form the inscription on the monument to Gray, in Stoke Park, on the side that faces the church.". 'Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, / We drove a field', Lycidas 26-7; and 'With me to drive a-Field the browzing Goats', Dryden, Eclogues ii 38. 99.1-4 'Brushing ... steps] "With hasty Footsteps brush E[ton [...]" H.W. Hendrickson, 1966. Cp. 1.7 parting] "parting was originally dying according [...]" H.W. thorn.'] Hendrickson, 1966. Thomson's panegyric of England's 'sons of glory' in Summer 1488-91, 1493, includes: 'a steady More, / Who, with a generous though mistaken zeal, / Withstood a brutal tyrant's useful rage; / Like Cato firm ... / A dauntless soul erect, who smiled on death.' 1898]. Cp. In England the ploughman always quits his work at noon. was probably obliged to make the [...] alteration by his decision to drop the stanza after l. 100, which refers to the wood. Cp. Not surprisingly, no definite identification of the churchyard can be made, in spite of the number of candidates for the honour. 68.1 And] "Or Wharton MS." A.L. "''how glad would lay me down / As in my mother's lap.'' "G[ray]. Giacomo Leopardi, Florence 1847, l. 12 'freddo foco e paventosa speme,' said by Petrarch of his love kept in check by Laura. Starr/J.R. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. "Wakefield compares Pindar, Ol. 109.8-9 customed hill,] "Cp. 1891]. 1926]. may have decided that [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. in ''As You Like [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. Cf. Lost ix 193-4: [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 13.5-7 that ... shade,] "'Or 'gainst the rugged bark [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Thomson, Winter 597-601, has a passage which is close to G.'s meaning here and in the following stanzas: 'if doomed / In powerless humble fortune to repress / These ardent risings of the kindling soul, / Then, even superior to ambition, we / Would learn the private virtues'.".
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