' ('Percy Memoir', 1801, p. 43.)
l. 124. -----
"And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made". In
'Animated Nature', 1774, v. 328, Goldsmith says:--'The
nightingale's pausing song would be the proper epithet for this
bird's music.' [Mitford.]
l. 126. -----
"No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale". (Cf.
Goldsmith's Essay on 'Metaphors' ('British
Magazine'):--'Armstrong has used the word 'fluctuate' with
admirable efficacy, in his philosophical poem entitled 'The Art
of Preserving Health'.
Oh! when the growling winds contend, and all
The sounding forest 'fluctuates' in the storm,
To sink in warm repose, and hear the din
Howl o'er the steady battlements.
l. 136. -----
"The sad historian of the pensive plain". Strean (see
note to l. 13) identified the old watercress gatherer as a
certain Catherine Giraghty (or Geraghty). Her children (he said)
were still living in the neighbourhood of Lissoy in 1807.
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