NOTE m. P. 111, 1. 13.

These eyelids open to the rising ray. ·

Your bed-chamber, and also your library, says Vitruvius, should have an eastern aspect; usus

enim matutinum postulat lumen.

Not so the picture-gallery, which requires a

north light; uti colores, propter constantiam luminis, immutata permaneant qualitate. L. vi. c. 6.

NOTE n. P. 112, 1. 9.

Like those blest Youths (forgive the fabling page).

See the Legend of the Seven Sleepers, as trans

lated from the Syriac by the care of Gregory of GIBBON'S Hist. c. 33.

Tours.

NOTE 0. P. 113, 1. 14.

Catch the blest accents of the wise and great.

Mr. Pope delights in enumerating his illustrious guests. Nor is this an exclusive privilege of the

poet. The Medici Palace at Florence exhibits a

long and imposing catalogue." Semper hi parietes columnæque eruditis vocibus resonuerunt."

Another is also preserved at Chanteloup, the

seat of the Duke of Choiseul.

NOTE p. P. 115, 1. 11.

Nor boast, O Choisy, seat of soft delight

At the petits soupés of Choisy were first introduced those admirable pieces of mechanism, afterwards carried to perfection by Loriot, the Confidente

and the Servante; a table and a side-board, which

descended, and rose again covered with viands and wines. And thus the most luxurious Court in Europe, after all its boasted refinements, was glad to return at last, by this singular contrivance, to the quiet and privacy of humble life.

Vie privée de Louis XV. tom. ii. p. 43.

NOTE q. P. 116, 1. 2.

Sheds, like an evening-star, its ray serene.

At a Roman supper statues were sometimes em

ployed to hold the lamps.

Aurea sunt juvenum simulacra per ædeis,
Lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris.

LUCR. ii. 24.

A fashion as old as Homer! Odyss. vii. 100.

On the proper degree and distribution of light we may consult a great master of effect. Il lume grande, ed alto, e non troppo potente, sarà quello,

che renderà le particole de' corpi molto grate.

Tratt. della Pittura di LIONARDO DA VINCI,

c. xli.

Hence every artist requires a broad and high

light. Hence also, in a banquet-scene, the most

picturesque of all poets has thrown his light from the cieling. Æneid. i. 730.

And hence the "starry lamps" of Milton, that

So thro' the vales of Loire the bee-hives glide.

An allusion to the floating bee-house, or barge laden with bee-hives, which Goldsmith says he saw in some parts of France and Piedmont.

Hist. of the Earth, viii. 87.

And, with the swallow, wings the year away!

It was the boast of Lucullus that he changed

his climate with the birds of passage.

PLUT. in Vit. Lucull.

How often must he have felt the truth here

inculcated, that the master of many houses has no

home!