Note 67 — Chapter III · THE “STOCK” DICTION OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
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Philips has large supplies of the poetical stock-in-trade. He speaks of “honeysuckles of a purple dye,” and anticipates Gray in his couplet,
Like woodland Flowers which paint the desert glades And waste their sweets in unfrequented shades. (“The Fable of Thule”)
(Vide “Poets of Great Britain,” 1794, Vol. IX, 384-407.)