An essay on the application of natural history to poetry / [John Aikin].

  • John Aikin
Date:
1777
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Credit: An essay on the application of natural history to poetry / [John Aikin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fame circumftance is reprc- fented in thefe lines of Milton’s Ty- cidas, .. both together heard What time the gray-fly^ winds her fultry horn. Battening our flocks with jhe frefli dews of night. Gray’s Elegy in a country church-yard next offers the beautiful line. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight. Lastly, Collins, in his Ode to Eve¬ nings exhibits the fame obje6l more nainutely. Or where the beetle winds His fmall, but fullen horn, As oft he rifes midft the twilight path, Againft the pilgrim borne in heedlefs huii^. * The cockchafFer 5 the iiifedt meant in all the four pafTa- ges. Several