Note 1 — THE GATHERER.
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This charming, accomplished poetess has addressed one of her most beautiful “Elegiac Sonnets” to this inspiring River. Her tender image of the “infant Otway” is, however, borrowed from a stanza in Collins’s inimitable “Ode to Pity:”—
“Wild Arun, too, has heard thy strains And echo ’midst my native plains Been sooth’d by Pity’s lute; There first the wren thy myrtles shed On gentlest Otway’s infant head— To him thy cell was shown,” &c.
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We have the pleasure of informing our esteemed correspondent, H.H. of Twickenham, that the very interesting memorial of GRAY, to which he alluded in his last letter, will illustrate an early number of the Mirror.
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Raleigh, it will be recollected, became Spencer’s patron, upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney, whom he celebrates under the title of “The Shepherd of the Ocean.” Raleigh also ensured Spencer the favour of Elizabeth, a pension of 50l. per annum, and the distinction of her laureate.—ED.
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The late Duchess of York paid the latter honours to her little canine friends, at Oatlands.