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 after migrating to Bermudas, where he had a church, and being ejected ' at the Restoration from an English cure, he went to Surinam (1662-67), to Barbadoes (1667), and to New England (1669), where he was made pastor of 'the First Church of Boston' (1670), and where he died in 1674. These details are from Mr. Grosart's Maruell (1875), i. 82-85, and " S~ 8 -

��Dryden's second Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Sound, as it is called, was written and printed in 1697. As it was designed for music (it was set by Jeremiah Clarke), the closing lines of every strophe are repeated by way of chorus. I have removed these repetitions as impertinent to the effect of the poem in print, and as interrupting the rushing vehemency of the narrative. The incident described is the burning of Persepolis.

��Written early in 1782, in memory of Robert Levett : ' an old and faithful friend,' says Johnson, and withal ' a very useful and very blameless man.' Excepting for the perfect odes of Cowper (pott, pp. 85. 86), in these excellent and affecting verses the ' classic ' note is audible for the last time in this book until we reach the Iphigeneia of W alter Savage Landor, who was a lad of seven at the date of their composition. They were written seventeen years after the publication of the Keliqucs (1765), and a full quarter century after the appearance of The Hard (1757) ; but in style they proceed from the age of Pope. For the rest, the Augustan Muse was an utter stranger to the fighting inspiration. Her gait was pedestrian, her puq>ose didactic, her practice neat and formal : and she prosed of England's greatest captain, the victor of Blenheim, as tamely as himself had been 'a parson in a tye-wig ' himself, and not the amiable man of letters who acted as her amanuensis for the nonce.

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Chevy Chase is here preferred to Olterbourne as appealing more directly to Englishmen. The text is Percy's, and the movement, like that of all the English ballads, is jog-trot enough. Sidney's confession that he never heard it, even from a blind fiddler, but it stirred him like the sound of a trumpet refers, no doubt, to an earlier version than the present, which appears to date from the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Compare The lirave Lord Willoughby and The Honour of liristol (fast, pp. 60,73).

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