Is this a picture of the son of the Rector of Welwyn? “Eighth Night:”—

“In foreign realms (for thou hast travelled far)”—

which even now does not apply to his son. In “Night Five:”—

“So wept Lorenzo fair Clarissa’s fate,

Who gave that angel-boy on whom he dotes,

And died to give him, orphaned in his birth!”

Lives of the English Poets Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c. · 第 26 / 34 题