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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

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49. Wakefield quotes Milton, _P. L._ v. 3:

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When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleepWas airy light, from pure digestion bred,And temperate vapours bland." 51. _Regardless of their doom_. Collins, in the _first manuscript_ ofhis _Ode on the Death of Col. Ross_, has "E'en now, regardful of his doom,Applauding Honour haunts his tomb."[2] [Footnote 2: Mitford gives the first line as "E'en now, _regardless_of his doom;" and just below, on verse 61, he makes the line fromPope read, "The fury Passions from that _flood_ began." We haveverified his quotations as far as possible, and have corrected scoresof errors in them. Quite likely there are some errors in those wehave not been able to verify.] 55. _Yet see_, etc. Mitford cites Broome, _Ode on Melancholy_: "While round stern ministers of fate,Pain and Disease and Sorrow, wait;" and Otway, _Alcibiades_, v. 2: "Then enter, ye grim ministers offate." See also _Progress of Poesy_, ii. 1: "Man's feeble race," etc. 59. _Murtherous_. The obsolete spelling of _murderous_, still used inGray's time. 61. _The fury Passions_. The passions, fierce and cruel as themythical Furies. Cf. Pope, _Essay on Man_, iii. 167: "The furyPassions from that blood began."
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