"In vain--such bliss to one alone  / Of all the sons of soul was known,  / And Heaven and Fancy, kindred powers, / Have now o'erturned the inspiring bowers, / Or curtained close such scene from every future view."
Ode on the Poetical Character
At least 29 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1747, 1763, 1765, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1780, 1781, 1786, 1787, 1796, 1796, 1799, 1800). <br>
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See <u>Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, [1747] [1746]). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW115231278&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300318161:3">Link to LION</a>&gt;