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Page 282 - The poet had been despoiled of his possessions whilst absent on a voyage. 1 (Ver. 1203—1206=Frere's Fragm. xxv.) This passage, like ver. 1191—1194·, may have reference to the pomp of the tyrant's obsequies. Ver. 1205, 1206 remind us of Childe Harold's " Why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me ?
Page 238 - 4 Hamlet, I. iii. (Speech of Polonius to Laertes,) " Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act." In Proverbs xx. 23, we find, " Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles ; " and in xxxi. 26,
Page 83 - 491; Eurip. Medea, 1279; Virg. Georg. i. 63, Unde homines nati, durum genus ; Ov. Met. i. 414, Inde genus durum sumus experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus, qua simus origine nati. Clericus observes with truth, that every age looks upon itself as having come to the extreme point of wickedness, forgetting the past ages.
Page 223 - exclamation in Shakspeare's Timon of Athens, iii. 1, " Thou disease of a friend, and not himself. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, It turns in less than two nights? This slave Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him,
Page 100 - Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.' earth, then let Jove rain three days, 1 and not cease, neither over-topping your ox's hoof-print nor falling short of it: 2 thus would a
Page 35 - Compare Milton, Par. Lost, vi. 853—855, " Yet half his strength he put not forth, but check'd His thunder in mid volley, for he meant Not to destroy, but root them out of heaven." It is to be observed how low the heathen conception of Divinity is, compared with the Christian. The Messiah has a superabundance, Jupiter scarce a sufficiency, of might. See Robinson. 1
Page 176 - Dodd compares also Milton, PL iv. 985, " On the other side Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might dilated stood, Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved: His stature reached the sky; and on his crest Sat horror plumed.
Page 279 - And at ver. 1137 cf. Psalm xii. 1, "Help, Lord: for the godly man ceaseth : for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Page 77 - subridens tacita Mezentius ira. Robinson compares Milton, PL, " Mighty Father, thou thy face Justly hast in derision, and secure, Laugh'st at their vain designs and tumults vain." So in Psal. ii. 4, " He that sitteth in the heavens shall
Page 35 - Inde tremit tellus, et rex pavet ipse silentum Ne pateat, latoque solum retegatur hiatu, ' Immissusque dies trepidantes terreat umbras. Compare also Lucan, vi. 743, Immittam ruptis Titana cavernis, Et subito feriere die. Cf. Milt. Par. Lost, vi. 867, &c. 4 And he began