which he called his Timonium, and from which probably originated the idea of the Parisian Boudoir, that favorite apartment, ou l'on se retire pour être seul, mais ou l'on ne boude point. STRABO, 1. xvii. PLUT. in Vit. Anton. NOTE C. P. 104, 1. 13. O mark! again the coursers of the Sun, At GUIDO's call, &c. Alluding to his celebrated fresco in the Ros pigliosi Palace at Rome. It has been engraved by Jac. Freii, and by Morghen. NOTE f. P. 105, 1. 5. And still the Few best lov'd and most rever'd The dining-room is dedicated to Conviviality; Thy closet-supper, serv'd by hands unseen, Sheds, like an evening-star, its ray serene, P To hail our coming. Not a step prophane Dares, with rude sound, the cheerful rite restrain; Still clad in bloom, and veil'd in azure light;- The shifting side-board plays its humbler part, Thus, in this calm recess, so richly fraught With mental light, and luxury of thought, dapes inemtas. HOR. My life steals on; (O could it blend with thine!) Careless my course, yet not without design. So thro' the vales of Loire the bee-hives glide, a So, till the laughing scenes are lost in night, Culling unnumber'd sweets from nameless flowers, That scent the vineyard in its purple hours. Rise, ere the watch-relieving clarions play, * Innocuas amo delicias doctamque quietem, Tho' each gay scene be search'd with anxious eye, If, when this roof shall know thy friend no more, Some, form'd like thee, should once, like thee, explore; Invoke the lares of his lov'd retreat, And his lone walks imprint with pilgrim-feet; Then be it said, (as, vain of better days, Some grey domestic prompts the partial praise ;) "Unknown he liv'd, unenvied, not unblest; Reason his guide, and Happiness his guest. In the clear mirror of his moral page, We trace the manners of a purer age. His soul, with thirst of genuine glory fraught, One chosen seat, that charms with various view! |