420 MEMOIRS OF 



'of children, though the fons of princes, 

 and the chariot-races of youthful heroes, 

 poffefs no eternity of attraclion compared 

 to the fubjecl of Gray's Progrefs of Poefy, 

 'and of his Bard. For the firft, the phyll- 

 cal and moral powers of the mufes; their 

 univerfal influence, in different degrees, in 

 every clime ; the three great feats of their 

 "empire, Greece, Italy, and England, Dra- 

 matic, Epic, and Lyric Poetry, fupported 

 in Britain by Shakefpear, Milton, and 

 Dry den. 



For the fecond, and ftlll greater Ode, 

 the fanguinary crime againft the Mufes 

 committed by an otherwife illuftrious mo- 

 narch, the fuppofed confequences of that 

 crime, a train of misfortunes to the remain- 

 ing line of the Plantagenets ; it's re^al 

 fons, 



Another and another gold-bound brow, 



paffing before us in the awful obfcurity, the 

 " darknefs vifible" of poetic prophecy ; the 



acceffion 



