"All the shadowy tribes of Mind / In braided dance their murmurs joined, / And all the bright uncounted powers, / Who feed on heaven's ambrosial flowers."
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;