Note 393 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (continued 2)
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“All-beauteous Nature! by thy boundless charms,” “the vast, various Landscape,” “sight-refreshing green,” “the thousand-colored tulip,” are typical Thomsonian phrases.
“Liquid lapse of murm’ring waters” —“Enthusiast,” l. 93, “Paradise Lost,” viii, 263;
“Mountain shagg’d with horrid shapes” —“Enthusiast,” l. 75; “Comus,” l. 429;
“When young-eyed spring profusely throws From her green lap the pink and rose.” —“Ode to Fancy,” l. 106; “Song on May Morning;”
“Then lay me by some haunted stream, Rapt in some wild poetic dream.” —“Ode to Fancy,” l. 41; “L’Allegro,” l. 129;
are some of the characteristic instances of the echoes from Milton.