le slung his old sword by his side, And snatched his staff and rushed to save; Then sunk and on his threshold cried, Oh lay me in my grave! -Constance! Claudine! where were ye then? But she is gone, and gone for ever! L from the "majestic face" of Shakspeare; and that a portrait of Newton was the only ornament of the closet of Buffon.-Ep. to Kneller. Voyage à Montbart. In the chamber of a man of genius we Write all down: Such and such pictures;-there the window; the arras, figures, Why, such and such. Page 125, line 11. Which gathers round the Wise of every Tongue, Quis tantis non gaudeat et glorietur hospitibus, exclaims Petrarch.-Spectare, etsi nihil aliud, certè juvat.-Homerus apud me mutus, imò verò ego apud illum surdus sum. Gaudeo tamen vel aspectû solo, et sæpe illum amplexus ac suspirans dico: O magne vir, &c.-Epist. Var. lib. 20. Page 126, line 4. As her fair self reflected seems to rise! But hence away! yon rocky cave beware! Wild Winter ministers his dread controul Page 126, line 7. These eyelids open to the rising ray, Your bed-chamber, and also your library, says Viruvius, should have an eastern aspect; usus enim natutinum postulat lumen. Not so the picture-gallery; which requires a north light, uti colores in ope, propter constantiam luminis, immutata permaneant qualitate. This disposition accords with his plan of a Grecian house. Page 127, line 1. Like those blest Youths, See the Legend of the Seven Sleepers.-GIBBON, c. 33. 66 Page 127, line 10. with knowledge health, Milton was up and stirring, ere the sound of any bell awaked men to labour, or to devotion ;" and it is related of two Students in a suburb of Paris, who were opposite neighbours, and were called the morning-star and the evening-star-the former appearing just as the latter withdrew-that the morning-star continued to shine on, when the evening-star was gone out for ever. Page 127, line 18. 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." Page 129, line 6. Sheds, like an evening-star, its ray serene, At a Roman supper statues were sometimes employed to hold the lamps. -aurea sunt juvenum simulacra per ædes, 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 w 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 DI 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 ceiling.— Æn. i. 726. And hence the " starry lamps" of Milton, that Page 129, line 16. Beyond the triumphs of a Loriot's art. At the petits soupés of Choisy were first introduced ose admirable pieces of mechanism, afterwards cared to perfection by Loriot, the Confidente and the ervante; a table and a side-board, which descended, nd rose again covered with viands and wines. And us the most luxurious Court in Europe, after all its oasted refinements, was glad to return at last, by his singular contrivance, to the quiet and privacy of umble life.-Vie privée de Louis XV. ii. 43. Between line 16 and line 17 were these lines, since omitted: Hail, sweet Society! in crowds unknown, Though the vain world would claim thee for its own. When in retreat Fox lays his thunder by, And Wit and Taste their mingled charms supply; |