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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.



Line 6.

Where briony and woodbine fringe the trees.

Briony, Bryonia dioica, foliis palmatis, &c. White Briony, growing plentifully in woods and hedges, and twisting around taller plants.

Line 8.

"Murmur their fairy tunes in praise of flowers,"

A line taken, I believe, from a Poem called "Vacuna," printed in Dodsley's collection.


SONNET LXXXII.

TO THE SHADE OF BURNS.

Whoever has tasted the charm of original genius so evident in the composition of this genuine Poet,

A Poet "of nature's own creation,"

cannot surely fail to lament his unhappy life, (latterly passed, as I have understood, in an employment to which such a mind as his must have been averse,) nor