from which Wordsworth took a line in “Tintern Abbey.” In Satire I, 249 there are some lines that sound absurdly like certain stanzas in “Peter Bell”: On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. But some, untaught, o’erhear the whispering rill, In spite of sacred leisure, blockheads still. The lines In distant wilds, by human eyes unseen, She rears her flowers, and spreads her velvet green; Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace And waste their music on the savage race (Satire V, 229), come between the similar passages by Gay and Gray. Cf. also the simile of the eagle and the serpent (“Vanquished Love,” Book II, 226), with Shelley’s “Revolt of Islam,” i, sts. 8–10. [368] “Ode to Fear,” “Ode to Simplicity,” “An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer,” “Ode to Pity.” [369] “Ode to Fear,” “On the Poetical Character,” “Popular Superstitions,” st. 11, “An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer.” [370] Mason, “Memoirs of Gray,” p. 261. [371] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book IV, 26 (1770). [372] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book IV, 38–51 (1770); cf. “Hymn to the Naiads,” ll. 243–49; cf. Wordsworth, “Prelude,” Book I, 402, and many other passages concerning the silent power of Nature over him in his youth. [373] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book I, 136–40 (1757). [374] _Ibid._, 120 (1744). [375] _Ibid._, 150 (1757). [376] _Ibid._, 153–60 (1757). [377] _Ibid._, 168–75 (1757); cf. Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey,” ll. 41–49. [378] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book III, 591–6O5 (1744). This “sacred order” of the universe is one of the points on which Wordsworth dwells, and he refers frequently to the tranquilizing, steadying effect which the contemplation of this order and harmony will have on the mind of man. See “Excursion,” Book IV, 1198–1219, 1254–65. [379] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book III, 615–33 (1744). [380] “Odes,” Book I, Ode 14, st. 4–6; cf. Wordsworth’s statement that Nature reveals herself to the heart that “watches and receives.” [381] “Odes,” Book I, Ode 5, st. 8. [382] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book I, 670–75 (1757). [383] “Pleasures of Imagination,” Book III, 484 (1757). [384] _Ibid._, I, 576–89 (1757). [385] _Ibid._, 432–37 (1757). Akenside’s presentation of this doctrine has led Gosse to call him a “sort of frozen Keats,” but Akenside’s pleasure in Nature was philosophical rather than sensuous. His scientific delight in the analyzed rainbow (“Pleasures of Imagination,” Book II, 103–20 [1744]) would have filled Keats with horror. [386] “Sickness,” v, 5. [387] “Hymn to May,” st. 20. [388] “Sickness,” v, 17. [389] Phelps, “The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.” [390] Wordsworth, “A Poet’s Epitaph,” st. 10. [391] “On the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude.” [392] “Couplet about Birds.”