...be again instinct with life ; every door would open upon some grand, historic event : " And hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps...royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go. " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen...

...foft-ey'd " Melancholy." IV. But hark! the portals found, and pacing forth With folemn fteps and flow, High Potentates, and Dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go: Great Gmc Fdwi. •-.* At ICxs <• ho bro» ODE FOR MUSIC. IJ9 V. " What is grandeur, what is Power...

...(1715), einem allegorischen Gedicht, 513 Die Verse spielen auf die Ode to Music von Thomas Gray an: „High Potentates and Dames of royal birth / And mitred Fathers in long order go." Vgl. den Kommentar in Tennyson (1969), S. 686. wo das Ich von der Betrachtung der blühenden Natur...

...from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft -eyed Melancholy." RECITATIVE. But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps...of royal birth, And mitred Fathers in long order go : Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow From haughty Gallia torn, 40 And s,ad Chatillon, on heI...

...melancholy." RECITATIVE. But hark ! the portals found, and pacing forth, With foleran fteps and flow, High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers, in long order go : Great Edward, with the lillies on his brow From haughty G allia torn ; And fad Chatillon on her bridal...

...melaner-.oly." RECITATIVE. But hark! the por'.als found, and pacing forth, With fnlemn ftepi and flow, H'gh potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers, in long order go ; Great Edward, with the lillies on his brow From haughty Gjl.ia torn ; ' And fad Chatillou on her...