Page 88, line 22. Her glory now, as ever her delight! Epaminondas, after his victory at Leuctra, rejoiced most of all at the pleasure which it would give his father and mother; and who would not have envied them their feelings? Cornelia was called at Rome the Mother-in-law of Scipio. When," said she to her sons, "shall I be 66 called the Mother of the Gracchi?" Page 90, line 7. And such, his labour done, the calm He knows, At illa quanti sunt, animum tanquam emeritis stipendiis libidinis, ambitionis, contentionis, inimicitiarum, cupiditatum omnium, secum esse, secumque (ut dicitur) vivere ?-CIC. De Senectute. Page 90, line 17. Watches his bees at hiving-time; Hinc ubi jam emissum caveis ad sidera cœli Page 91, line 10. Immoveable-for ever there to freeze! She was under all her sails, and looked less like a ship incrusted with ice than ice in the fashion of a ship. -See the Voyage of Captain Thomas James, in 1631. Page 92, line 8. Lo, on his back a Son brings in his Sire, An act of filial piety represented on the coins of atana, a Greek city, some remains of which are still be seen at the foot of Mount Ætna. The story is ld of two brothers, who in this manner saved both eir parents. The place, from which they escaped, was >ng called the field of the pious; and public games ere annually held there to commemorate the Event. Page 92, line 12. From harp or organ! What a pleasing picture of domestic life is given to is by Bishop Berkeley in his letters! "The more we Jave of good instruments the better: for all my children, not excepting my little daughter, learn to play, and are preparing to fill my house with harmony against all events; that, if we have worse times, we may have better spirits." Page 92, line 20. And with assurance sweet her soul revive In child-birth See the Alcestis of Euripides, v. 328. Page 92, line 24. Who lives not for another. How often, says an excellent writer, do we err in our estimate of happiness! When I hear of a man who has noble parks, splendid palaces, and every luxu in life, I always inquire whom he has to love; and, if find he has nobody or does not love those he has— the midst of all his grandeur I pronounce him a bei in deep adversity. Page 93, line 8. O thou all-eloquent, whose mighty mind Cicero. It is remarkable that, among the comfor of Old Age, he has not mentioned those arising fro the society of women and children. Perhaps the hu band of Terentia and " the father of Marcus felt som thing on the subject, of which he was willing to spa himself the recollection." Page 96, line 18. And stars are kindling in the firmament, An old writer breaks off in a very lively manner a later hour of the night. "But the Hyades run lo in the heavens, and to keep our eyes open any long were to act our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up America, and they are already past their first sleep Persia." ORE I conclude, I would say something in favour the old-fashioned triplet, which I have here vend to use so often. Dryden seems to have delighted t, and in many of his poems has used it much ner than I have done, as for instance in the Hind Panther, * and in Theodore and Honoria, where introduces it three, four, and even five times in cession. f I have erred any where in the structure of my se from a desire to follow yet earlier and higher mples, I rely on the forgiveness of those in whose the music of our old versification is still sounding.† Pope used to mention this poem as the most correct specimen of len's versification. It was indeed written when he had completely ed his manner, and may be supposed to exhibit, negligence excepted, leliberate and ultimate scheme of metre.-JOHNSON. With regard to trissyllables, as their accent is very rarely on the last, cannot properly be any rhymes at all: yet nevertheless I highly comd those, who have judiciously and sparingly introduced them, as such, RAY. |