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• 1747.1  + (<p> </p> <p> "Rolling ci … <p> </p></br><p> "Rolling circle" had been drafted as "hoop," and thus does not connote ballplaying . Cricket writers have seen "flying ball" as a cricket reference, but one Gray scholar cites "Bentley's Print" as a basis for concluding that Gray was referring to trap ball in this line. Steel and Lyttelton note that this poem was first published in 1747.</p></br><p>The phrase "urge the flying ball" is re-used in later writings, presumably to evoke cricket playing.</p>ed in later writings, presumably to evoke cricket playing.</p>)

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