The Works of Lord Byron Volume VI Part 14

or, _The reason was, perhaps, that he was bilious_.--[MS.]

[h]

/ now but _And we may own--since he is <> earth_.--[MS.]

laid in /

[39] ["I could have forgiven the dagger or the bowl,--any thing but the deliberate desolation piled upon me, when I stood alone upon my hearth, with my household G.o.ds s.h.i.+vered around me.... Do you suppose I have forgotten it? It has, comparatively swallowed up in me every other feeling, and I am only a spectator upon earth till a tenfold opportunity offers."--Letter to Moore, September 19, 1818, _Letters_, 1900, iv, 262, 263. Compare, too--

"I had one only fount of quiet left, And _that_ they poisoned! My pure household G.o.ds Were s.h.i.+vered on my hearth, and o'er their shrine Sate grinning Ribaldry and sneering Scorn."

_Marino Faliero_, act iii. sc. II, lines 361-364.]

{25}[i]

/ litigation-- _Save death or <> so he died_.--[MS.]

banishment--/

{26}[40] [Compare Leigh Hunt on the ill.u.s.trations to Andrew Tooke's _Pantheon_: "I see before me, as vividly now as ever, his Mars and Apollo ... and Venus very handsome, we thought, and not looking too modest in a 'light cymar.'"--_Autobiography_, 1860, p. 75.]

[j] _Defending still their Iliads and Odysseys_.--[MS.]

[41] See Longinus, Section 10, "??a ? ?? t? pe?? a?t?? p???? fa???ta?, pa??? d? s???d??." [Greek: "I/na me e(/n ti peri au)ten pa/thos phai/netai, pathon de sy/nodos."]

["The effect desired is that not one pa.s.sion only should be seen in her, but a concourse of pa.s.sions" (_Longinis on the Sublime_, by W. Rhys Roberts, 1899, pp. 70, 71).

The Ode alluded to is the famous Fa??eta? ?? ????? ?s?? ?e?s??, ?.t.?.

[Greek: Phai/netai/ moi kenos i(/sos theisin, k.t.l.]

"Him rival to the G.o.ds I place; Him loftier yet, if loftier be, Who, Lesbia, sits before thy face, Who listens and who looks on thee."

W.E. Gladstone.

"I do not think you are quite held out by the quotation. Longinus says the circ.u.mstantial a.s.semblage of the pa.s.sions makes the sublime; he does not talk of the sublime being soaring and ample."--[H.] "I do not care for this--it must stand."--[B.]--[_Marginal notes in Revise._]]

[42] [_Bucol._, Ecl. ii. "Alexis."]

{27}[k]

/ antique / elision Too much their < modest=""> bard by the <>--[MS.]

downright / omission /

[43] Fact! There is, or was, such an edition, with all the obnoxious epigrams of Martial placed by themselves at the end.

[In the Delphin _Martial_ (Amsterdam, 1701) the _Epigrammata Obscaena_ are printed as an Appendix (pp. 2-56), "[Ne] quiequam desideraretur a morosis quibusdam hominibus."]

{28}[44] See his _Confessions_, lib. i. cap. ix.; [lib. ii. cap. ii., _et pa.s.sim_]. By the representation which Saint Augustine gives of himself in his youth, it is easy to see that he was what we should call a rake. He avoided the school as the plague; he loved nothing but gaming and public shows; he robbed his father of everything he could find; he invented a thousand lies to escape the rod, which they were obliged to make use of to punish his irregularities.

{30}[45] [Byron's early letters are full of complaints of his mother's violent temper. See, for instance, letter to the Hon. Augusta Byron, April 23, 1805. In another letter to John M.B. Pigot, August 9, 1806, he speaks of her as "Mrs. Byron '_furiosa_'" (_Letters_, 1898, i. 60, 101).]

[46] ["Having surrendered the last symbol of power, the unfortunate Boabdil continued on towards the Alpuxarras, that he might not behold the entrance of the Christians into his capital.... Having ascended an eminence commanding the last view of Granada, the Moors paused involuntarily to take a farewell gaze at their beloved city, which a few steps more would shut from their sight for ever.... The heart of Boabdil, softened by misfortunes, and overcharged with grief, could no longer contain itself. 'Allah achbar! G.o.d is great!' said he; but the words of resignation died upon his lips, and he burst into a flood of tears."--_Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada_, by Was.h.i.+ngton Irving, 1829, ii. 379-381.]

{31}[l]

/ silence! hus.h.!.+_ _I'll tell you a secret--<>--[MS.]

which you'll hush_ /

{32}[m]

_Spouses from twenty years of age to thirty_ / strict _Are most admired by women of <> virtue_.--[MS.]

staid /

[47] For the particulars of St. Anthony's recipe for hot blood in cold weather, see Mr. Alban Butler's _Lives of the Saints_.

["I am not sure it was not St. Francis who had the wife of snow--in that case the line must run, 'St. Francis back to reason.'"--[_MS. M._]

For the seven snow-b.a.l.l.s, of which "the greatest" was his wife, see Life of "St. Francis of a.s.sisi" (_The Golden Legend_ (edited by F.S. Ellis), 1900, v. 221). See, too, _the Lives of the Saints, etc._, by the Rev.

Alban Butler, 1838, ii. 574.]

{34}[48] [The sorceress in Ta.s.so's _Gerusalemme Liberata_. The story of Armida and Rinaldo forms the plot of operas by Gluck and Rossini.]

[49]-35- _Thinking G.o.d might not understand the case_.--[MS. M., Revise.]

{36}[50] ["Quel giorno piu non vi leggemmo avante." Dante, _Inferno_, canto v. line 138.]

{37}[51]

["Conscienzia m'a.s.sicura, La buona compagnia che l'uom francheggia Sotto l'osbergo del sentirsi pura."

_Inferno_, canto xxviii, lines 115-117.]

[n] _Deemed that her thoughts no more required control_.--[MS.]

{38}[52] [See Ovid, _Metamorph_., vii. 9, sq.]

{39}[53] Campbell's _Gertrude of Wyoming_--(I think)--the opening of Canto Second [Part III. stanza i. lines 1-4]--but quote from memory.

[54] [See Coleridge's _Biographia Literaria_, chap. i. (ed. 1847, i. 14, 15); and _Dejection: An Ode_, lines 86-93.]

{40}[o]

_I say this by the way--so don't look stern_.

_But if you're angry, reader, pa.s.s it by_.--[MS.]

[55] [Juan Boscan, of Barcelona (1500-1544), in concert with his friend Garcila.s.so, Italianized Castilian poetry. He was the author of the _Leandro_, a poem in blank verse, of canzoni, and sonnets after the model of Petrarch, and of _The Allegory_.--_History of Spanish Literature_, by George Ticknor, 1888, i. 513.]

[56] [Garcias La.s.so or Garcila.s.so de la Vega (1503-1536), of a n.o.ble family at Toledo, was a warrior as well as a poet, "now seizing on the sword and now the pen." After serving with distinction in Germany, Africa, and Provence, he was killed at Muy, near Frejus, in 1536, by a stone, thrown from a tower, which fell on his head as he was leading on his battalion. He was the author of thirty-seven sonnets, five canzoni, and three pastorals.--_Vide ibidem_, pp. 522-535.]

{42}[p]

_A real wittol always is suspicious_, _But always also hunts in the wrong place_.--[MS.]

{43}[q] _Change horses every hour from night till noon_.--[MS.]

[r] _Except the promises of true theology_.--[MS.]