Note 77 — JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, GEORGE CANNING, AND GEORGE ELLIS.
Reading edition
The harmony and imagery of these lines are imperfectly imitated from the following exquisite passage in the Economy of Vegetation:
'Gnomes, as you now dissect, with hammers fine, The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine; Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt, Your pure ka—o—lins and Pe—tunt—ses mixt.' Canto 2, line 297.