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PHILOSOPHY
OF
NATURE.
THE
PHILOSOPHY
OF
NATURE
OR,
THE
INFLUENCE
OF
SCENERY
ON
-The Haunted
me
sounding
Cataract tall
passion
the their
; the and
Rock, Wood,
to
me
The.
Their Au
Mountain,
colours
deep
forms,
gloomy
been
have
appetite.
Wordsworth.
Rura
mihi
placeant, riguiqUe
amem
in
vallibus
amnes,
Flumina
sylvasque.
Georg.
ii. 1. 485.
VOL.
II.
N:
PRINTED
FOR
JOHN
MURRAY,
NO.
50,
ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1813,
Lombard-strceti Davison,
T.
Whitefriars,
London.
THE
PHILOSOPHY
OF
NATURE;
OR,
INFLUENCE
OF
SCENERY,
"c.
I.
OF
all the
from
passions, which
none
derive
additional
a
force
scenery,
experiences
that
greater
the of
accession
than
Love,
Plato
noble
"
"
feeling of
interposition
:"
"
heart, which
the
calls
of the
an
gods
in
behalf
young
passion,
"
"
celebrated
thou
says
a
by all, yet
what the
truly felt by
few.
Dost
me
know,
Persian that
nightingale said
"
to
V
art
poet:
be
"
What
of
"
sort
of
man
thou,
would
that
of
canst
ignorant
what
sort
love?"
a man
I
"
rather
enquire,
canst
of lover"
art
thou,
be
capable
of
"
since, though
all the
vol. II.
passions,
it is the
is
most
productive
of
it delight,
is the most of
us
unfrequentof passionsof
day
them
all.
"
How
many
feel the
hatred !
"
and how
revenge,
envy
us are
and
desire,every
elevated
Mahomet
or
but
few
of
or
an capable of feeling
ardent
"
tion, affecThat
conceiving an
love, which
passion!
was
not
Titus
for
Berenice,
is
Horace
weary
Lydia;
"
and
never
boasting his
never
gay,
Anacreon
were
felt
Indeed,
stranger
Greeks
almost the
as
love, as legitimate
to
barians, bar-
they affected
of
despise.
"
The
passion
ver fe-
Sappho
of
was
nothing but
the
an
ungovernable
she has
desire, though
so
Fragment,
so
left,
has
been
long, so
the
"
often, and
that
world As
a
imagines
poem,
venture
she
the
sence es-
of love!
it has
to
been
unjustly
so
celebrated,(if I
admirable been
as
a a
may
as
differ from
because
;
"
critic far
Longinus)
it has
even,
celebrated
and
faithful
with hands
picture of desire,it
a
has
"
"
nothing to
The
compare
poem
of
Jayadeva.
palms
as
of her
thus
the crescent,
she
eve."'
Heri,
as
Hen she
IP
"
meditates she
thy name,
if
were
and gratified,
were
ah-
sence.
"
She
rends
her locks
"
"
she pants
"
"
she la*
ments
she inarticulately
moves
trembles
"
she
pines
"
she
she closes
"
her
a
eyes
"
she
again
"
she
faints!
the
In
such
may
live, oh!
celestial
sician, phybut be
administer
remedy;
"
unkind, her
malady
mil
desperate."
II. This all the wild what has is drawn picture of irregularity uncontrollable love ?
"
with
the
but passionitself;
to
desire mild
and
do
with
the
passion of
which
that the
sinks
deepest, where
as f elicit
of the
heart,
animate
only
"
the
the
virtuous
more
that
sacred
passion, which
bestows
ture, rapture, than perfumes, than sculpthan landscape, than riches, painting, of poesy, united
than than in
one
generalcombination.
Read of
me,
the
ode
of
Sappho
and
the
Fragment
tell
Jayadeva, my
if you
are
half those
to
their
and
as merits,
to
of
beautiful following
2
elevated
ment? attach-
The
which feeling,
must
this felt
morexquisite
ceau
expresses,
be
by
every
woman,
who
of
the
name
libelled.
"
friends,
sometimes
think
on
new
hopes,
new
joys
fairer
to
find
deign, 'mid
her, thou
maids,
"
leav'st
behind.
to
youth,
lot
"
share,
be
my
happy
But
thou
humble
not.
"
prayer
"
Forget
not
"
forget me
Yet Too
Heed Nor Yet
should
the
to
thought
of my
distress
painful
not
ever
the
wish,
to
express,
me."
deign
l
think
oh
if
If want,
And thou
if sickness
thy lot,
Forget
not
"
forget me
not.
"
Mrs.
Opit.
III. in
Love
"
is
composed
an
pleasure :
it is
union
desire, tenderness,
unbounded,
:
"
and and
friendship ; confidence
esteem
the most
the most
animated
and solid
filling
the entire
capacity of
the
soul,it
with
manly
better
softness. is it
to
"
Where
be
like this
joined
or
death, than, by
malice
of of
a
caprice of
fortune, to
"
parents,
the
wayward
drag
is
on
years
anxious
separation*! nobly,
He,
when
who
capable of
no
under
ence influa
by the applause of
act
he
loves,would
is this the the
of
name
and splendidly
every
sublimely. animal,
himself
he that
And
passion,which
of
"
usurps
man,
flatters well
may
he
is
capable
r feeling
As
imagine himself
of
Shakspeare,
or
forming
the
the Hercules
nese,
of
composing
!
"
Redemption
immortal
Handel
IV.
Love
"
has "What
several
is
more
analogieswith
like
natural
says
a
beauties, f German
"
love,"
philosopher, quoted
the when with feeling, which
by
the
Zimmerman,
soul
or
than
spired, is in-
viewing
et
fine country,
honeslissimus distrahi. 1.
"
the
sight
Vbi
idem
maximus
et
amor
est, aliquando
Maximus.
preestat morte
jiaigi, quam
vita
Valerius
Note
of
sun
the
setting
which
So
obvious
is the
connection,to
we
have the
at
with
the close of
you may
a
day,
to
"
say, you
are
good night!
I wish your
dream, that
walkingwith
"
lover in
garden of flowers.
lost
"
"
V.
Have
we
beloved
we
or mistress,
an
fectiona af-
friend ? she he
was
Do
hear
tune, of which
read
our a
enthusiastically fond,
;
are
or
poem
admired passionately
a
not
thoughts
of faculty
swayed by
secret
impulse,as, by
to
the
we association,
recal
of
mind
the many
instances
we
have If
a
received
regard?
by what
how life, tion combinawe
"
is awakened melancholypleasure
and
we
hear
more
what is that
we
see
in familiar
much
of faculty exquisite
when, enlarged,
tread the spot
were or
after
long absence,
which
"
behold
our
once
the
objectsof
admiration.
If,
of
divided
the by distance,
reveries indulges
grand
or
beautiful scenery,
the
his mistress
is
associated immediately
with all the
it:
and,
one
at
peace
world,
he
sinks into
of those
silent
which, meditations,
in
the
so
powerful a
manner,
expand
the
the
faculties of
the
and imagination,
"
chasten
of feelings
heart.
VI.
at
Thus
was
it with fancied
Petrarch.
every
"
When
he
was
Valchiusa, he
Laura
tree
skreened
his
beloved
scene
; when
he beheld
any
magnificent
among
the
her
standingby
Ardenne,
he heard
was
her in every
echo, and
the
when the
at
Lyons, he
cause be-
transported at
that
"
"
sightof
washes
"
Rhone,
of
river majestic
the walls I
may
In woods
hide
no
among
so
and
so
caves
; but
wild, so
me
beautiful
every
but solitary,
love pursues
at
step."
ODE
TO
JULIA.
WRITTEN
AT
PONT-ABERGLASSI.YN.
I've
And Seen
o'er
many
mountain
from
wide,
side
to
their
a
charms
side
rock
aspiring rise,
skies
;
Astonish'd While
All
to
its native
crags
countless
appear'd below,
or
black
with
as
shade,
I've
"
white
my
with
snow;
These,
Trembled
seen, I
for
thought
I've In
the
man
torrent's
ne'er the
scenes,
as
before
And,
I've
heard
vernal
In sweet Make
delirious
rocks and
ecstasy,
caves,
and
vallies
ring,
.Responsiveto
I've bade To dwell
its
murmuring,
scenes
those
and
sounds
on
adieu,
you.
"
in
pensive thought
As
on
the
ocean's
to
shelvy shore,
its solemn
wonders roar;
awful
round,
with
a
birds
screamed
from
grating sound,
moon
majestic
cloud,
and
proud,
how far
more
I've Those
thought
sounds
how would
sweet,
dear,
be,
were
Julia
near.
In secluded
walks, on
and
of
in rivers,
savage
litudes, so-
unfrequentedrecesses,
the lover of meditation. the and
"
There
every
scene
serves
to
crease in-
strengthand
dressed
to
delicacyof
in her his
his
passion,
or
all nature,
boldest
most
beautiful
wears attire,
imagination
look
of love ;
While
all the
tumults
of
guiltyworld,
away.
Tost
by
ungenerous
passions,sink
VII.
in delight the
the
societyof the
an
hunter;
idle and
derive dissipated
to recalling
their
youth, and
each
same
feel themselves
entitled
the
of friendship
of
other, because
vicious
they have
partaken
how much
the
more
with indulgencies ;
who
are
in any
way
connected
to
scenes,
"
which If such
have
are
administered
their
happiness?
regard
must to
their
in associations,
casual
acquaintances,how
cement
strongly
those have !
"
recollections
the
friendships,
by
of
M'hich
esteem
been previously
awakened character
to
mutual
thought,
timents sen-
and
by givinga
of
the
heart, recollections
affections
to
ture na-
confirm have
our
the
of in
those, whom
the
number
we
the
happiness
"
rank
"
of
friends.
cemented with
Friends
not
gained by flattery
tracted con-
and
united
to
us
by by
all
similar
the
habits,opinions,and
mutual
indulgence of
mankind.
Ah ! who the
pleasures
of
frieud
can
tell ?
"
10
Watching
us
our
interests with
solicitude ;
assisting
and
with
with
sincerity, tempered
our
delicacy ;
bating com-
than and
with
ment orna-
he rhetoric,
of
our
guide,the partner,
In
our
absence, protecting us
from in
our our
prudential zeal,
"
he chides
our
follies and
to
our
vices by
givingcredit
virtues.
ing aboundus
he compliances,
treats
"
with
studious
his
and
he enjoyments,
introduces
our
us
to
new
pleasures ;
tions consolaa tuary sanc-
in and, participating
are
his afflictions,
his bosom is
medicines, and
*.
VIII.
If
landscapegiveadditional
the that decided
force is
to
no
the less
it friend,
productiveof givessuch
soul
:
"
the
for
more
and impressive
sublime
scenes,
ing check-
the
violent
of
our
the natural
man
arrogance
nature,
place
and
See
Note
'2.
11
man
"upon a vanityof
that
level with
each and
other,by subduing
the hopes exalting
the
the
proud,
Of this
and
of the humble.
opinionwas
admirable
Sir William
man,
Jones,
"
great
of
bred
in his
the love
school
Greece, and
of ancient
those literature,
even
ideas of
a
which, liberty,
he is
never
when
favoured
or
by
"
court,
permitted to
those
wither
decay !
for
Hence
a
it,that
remarkable countries,
bination com-
towards
of science rendered of
absence,have
a
themselves
for
detestation
despotism ;
strong and
in
"
ardent
desire of
them, recovering
your
when
lost.
call
recollection, among
Rome and unfortunate
other
or
examples,
of that
those
of
early Greece,
country,
and
once
and lovely
once
known, and
"
loved, honoured
"
admired,
seat
dear
to
all
"
landscape, the
of peace and
was
of every
virtue,
where
to
content, and
never seen
the
honest
"
face of poverty
"
blush*.
"
Switzerland!
Thy
memory
is immortal!
Note
3.
12
IX.
As
you
are
friend
to
social order
and
of uniformity
you of may
start
"
government,
at
my
Lelius, perhaps
name
the
now
unfashionable in
a
liberty. The
revolution
a
neighbouring
symphony
to
a
state, which
wretched
resembles
and
beautiful
the
waters
ever
concerto,
crimes, perpetrated
of the
duringwhich, not
Seine, or
page,
to
all the
can
Loire,the
toric the hisment attach"
wash
from
weakened
your
national
benefits,
"
freedom resemble
action
and
of speech. liberty
You
the
being bruised
wine
to
and
cast
into
the
water,
preservingthe
virtue of wine. of which
cessarily ne-
But,
my
involves
not
mind,)is
to
be
because despised
any be
days, have
her character in all the
many
to
fixed
regard for
her ;
"
nor
is
because libelled, of
wantonness
licence,have
so
schemes,
the
"
and
committed
of privilege
an
many
crimes,
under
name.
assumed many
her
honourable
been
How
act
of of
has treachery
under perpetrated
many
a
the
name
! friendship
"
How fallen
beautiful and
virtuous
woman
has
14
a putable
proudest
of
cestry. an-
that Aristocrat,
"
the disgraced
honours desire
"
"
Nature
us
implanted the
command
any
Nature
may
prompts
to
the
exercise, and
the !
"
he, who
this world
seeks, by
to deprive indirection, us
scorn
be inheritance,
outcast
of
in the next
XI.
the
from If,
of
man
the
of nations, we liberty
may
recur
to
freedom that
we individuals,
to
free,and
is the
most
the most
of
"
happy,
pendent inde-
common
customs, and
resources
of
common
society: whose
whose
centre
in
himself;
"
mind
contains
the
riches of exalted
cepts, pre-
and whose
Master,
of the
as
it were,
he destiny, the
of
spises de-
the hand
of the
oppressor,
contumely
"
proud,and
the malevolence
as a
ignorance.
his fixing
is to him
at
kingdom ;
of
a
and
the foot
nature, he
a
the
scene
nor
with the
the smiles
frowns
depress.
is his!
"
Creation's
heir
'
the
15
XII.
While
and
love of
the
magnificent scenery
calls forth many and adds
us
genders en-
fosters
and latent
it liberty, private
resources
the
of its
the
"
mind,
to tionably
strength. It
"
confirms desire
a
habits
of virtue ;
leads
of
us
to
more
knowledge
decided
an
and ourselves,
produces
contempt
"
of pleasures it
cites, ex-
idle world.
By virtue
of association
which sentiment,
heroic
spirit.
"
"
That
man,"
says
an
" Moralist,
is littleto be
patriotism
rathon, Ma-
would
not
or
gain ground
whose
the
not
plainsof
grow
pietywould
Iona*." the
"
warmer
among the
the
ruins of
Innumerable
are
Highlandersof
of scenery
to
to
noble
in landscapes of
a
the
Peloponnesusand
and those
been
bourhood neigh-
Athens, Rome,
Florence, had
"
decided
a
effect upon
man,
illustrious cities?
censured ness for idlethe dull
Many
or
who
has
cashiered
Note
5.
16
swamps
of
Holland
and the
Flanders, would
command in Greece.
"
have
felt himself
equal to
of
""
armies
in
in Switzerland,or Italy,
XIII.
The the
bold
monks
character
of
of
the
scenery,
are
rounded, sur-
by
which
St.
Bernard stimulus
"
gives an
important
to
their
fortitude.
These
holy
counter en-
will personalsafety,
of
greatest vicissitudes
to
toil and
ger, dan-
assist those
travellers,
which
so
into the
gulphs of
of
snow,
render
the passes
so
the
Alps
"
St. Bernard
difficult and
dangerous.
those
Animated characters
presence
Deity,
in the
dead
panied accom-
of
night they
they will
of
from
will
quit their
and
convent,
and,
by dogs
grope
rescue
lightedonly by lanthorns,
over
their way
a
immense human
masses
ice,
the
more
to
miserable
creature
danger
dreadful
of
from
the
fate of which it
sinkinginto
were
the
est deep-
gulphs, from
to
rescue
impossible ever
them
!
"
17
XIV.
Those of
beautiful
and
and
injured queens,
of
were
Matilda
the
Denmark,
Sophia,wife
of
George
both and
while First,
elector
a
Hanover,
for the
distinguished by
graces of nature.
"
regard
charms
Matilda,
accused
to
of crimes
her
soul
of
detested,was
"
banished
the
ate elector-
Hanover.
true
Looking back,
with
and
those
she
not
had the
had
of her
"
her
garden
was an
Thus
occupied,she
and
of love, object
"
admiration
pity to
a
all the
electorate.
as
phia, Sothose
charged with
of the virtuous
crime,as
ill-founded
same
tion consola"
flower-garden. Her
been
band, hus-
by
whom
she had
to be
"
reconciled of
to
her
but
she would
not.
In the page
admirable,
"
"
than
hers,is no
is
where
to
be
found
"
If the
cusation ac-
am
unworthy
of
his bed
"
"
if it is
he false,
is
unworthy
of mine."
were
Animated doubt
VOL.
by virtuous
no
strengthenedby
II.
of
her
18
amusements,
crown
she refused
the
splendourof
royal,
!
"
XV.
as
If
scenes,
so
common
and
have
simple,
to
shrubberies
and
gardens,
and
to
secure
power
strengthenthe mind,
turbulent tumults
it
the against
emotions, caused
of
us
by
the
and intrigues
the from
be
world,
much
weaning
nobler
na,
vices,may
"
scenes
supposed
to
produce.
one
Colonthe
accompanied by Blanche,
of ascended April,
of
a
eveningin
month
high mountain,
"
neighbourhood
Langollen along
"
The
sun
was
the It
vale,embellishing
touched.
having
which
rained
all
the had
to
scene
the
freshness
gave
with
spring impulse
the peared apsom bo-
object
"
additional
at
all their
-Arrived feelings.
the
summit,
nature
became
to
the her
veil from
"
her
and of
to
glory in
their
"
charms.
The
season
which, earlyspring,
to
in other
countries, serves
only
mantle
exhibit
in of
poverty,
had
displayed new
thrown
to
beauties
this.
Nature and
snow,
appeared
invite the
19
holder she
to
take
last look
of her
beauties, ere
or
shaded with
the
cottage with
the
wood-bine,
arms over
screened
oak.
"
leaves
soon
fantastic
to
of
The
clouds
a
began
form
heads,and
hats.
"
waving column
"
touched lightly
Around
was
one
continued
range
the river.
fied diversiImmediatelybelow, lay a beautifully with the Dee, a river, vale, combining all
of the Arno and
the charms
the
on
Loire,winding
side
rest
throughthe
the calm
middle
of
it;
"
the east
of in
XVI. into
more a
This
beautiful
one,
"
scene
was
soon
converted
sublime
for the
clouds, assuming a
the tops of all the mountains gloomy character, became around enveloped,and the totally of Colonna
and
heads
and
his
a
companion
were
now
heavy vapour.
No
"
more
union perfect
it magnificent discern"
is difficult to conceive.
objectwas
their
below, how by
clouds !
"
! Their captivating
illumined
the sun,
heads,
as
it
a
touchingthe
has
How
when often,
upon
a
Boy,
Colonna
reposedhimself
c;
bank,
20
or
under
the shade
of
course
of the
of
demigod
Now
could upon
their below
"
columns, gilded
"
gaze in
a
measure,
gratified.
inter nubila
condit.
Above,
sun,
"
all
was
gloomy
and
dark; below
the
"
the
from
the west,
still illumined
villages
and and
the cottages and woods, the pastures spires, which lay scattered in every direction ; fields,
the
while
Dee,
at
intervals, swept, in
bottom
many
"
of the vale !
XVII.
so
These
and
scene
admirably
the
sombre
above
combination
absorbed
that,for
meditation
future and
one :
"
time,they were
was
the past
presentedno
such
a
cares
their
apprehension ;
have wasted
if,in
scene,
they could
themselves in indulging
thought upon
have
the
concerns
they would
ever.
"
fancied
for disgraced
this
While
theywere
*
halcyon*
Note
6.
22
the
and palace,
the cottage ;
churches mills,
and
tles cas-
abbeys. But
"
even
those
become objects
nature
ing cover-
endeared
a
to
has,in
Thus other.
measure,
them
by
with
them
with
moss,
with
lychensand
ivy.
"
art and
nature
impartmutual
graces
to
each
XIX.
to
The the
tifying gra-
lover
of
the
; and
are picturesque,
no
the
Roman
and
the
Gothic
one,
with gifted
genius,would
of
erections elegant
on rising
a
Greece, seated in
those Roman embattled
vale,
noble
knoll,to
and
proud
and
specimensof
upon
as
Gothic
ing frowngrandeur,
among
mountains, or
exhibited
woods,
they are
and and
monasteries, abbeys
castles.
"
The
grace
majestyof
the the
the
the
Tuscan,
of magnificence
the the
the Corinthian,
of solemnity the
Doric,
and
profusenessof
to
ings build-
in
in parks,and shrubberies,
to
tions publicerec-
for ob-
when character,
23
more
untameable
of
scenes
the
British,
Roman,
the
circular tower
of
Saxon,
and
the
arch pointed
a
the
Anglodegree,
rounding sur-
Norman
far greater
romantic
and
features of
us
the
to
scenery;
carry
back
tower
those the
tumultuous
times, in
passage
which
were
the
and
long winding
securities forest castle.
"
equallyuseful,as
banditti of
a
against the
the
humble
the
and
titled ruffian of
neighbouring
XX.
But
most
of
all the
degreesof
modern
more
tecture, archi-
to grateful
cid pla-
of landscape,and style
and philosophic
most
cottage
has the
attractive
With
one
of those
littlemandelightful sions,
of
a
situated
the
sea
on
the borders
lake,or
rear
near
shore, over
into
a
which natural
mountains
selves them-
vast
sides
are
embrowned
a
with woods
clear stream, is useful
small it;
"
with garden,
a
windingthrough
in
art
and
ence, sci-
and
a
phy philosowoman,
"
esteem,
and
24
whom
we
love, who
or
would
the
exchange
the
for
the
Escurial
St.
even
Cloud,
palace of
Grand
"
or Seigneur,
itself?
Oh The
! knew
he
but
his !
"
happiness, of
far from
men
happiest he
in the
the
who,
a
public rage,
few
Deep
Drinks
Sure To
vale, with
pure
choice
of the
retir'd,
life.
"
pleasures
a
rural
peace
is his ;
solid
disappointment, and
fallacious
Rich
Here
in content, in nature's
too
bounty rich.
;
"
dwells
simple
; sound
truth
plain innocence
youth,
beauty
labour,
unbroken
a
with
little
pleas'd ;
toil ;
"
blooming
; unambitious
contemplation, and
poeticease.
Thomson.
"
Autumn.
XXI.
When
"
we
enter
into
says
Tully,
whose
oratory
relapsed
Tacitus
struck first,
into
strongly expresses
with the
it*,
"
"
we
are,
at
marble other
columns,
the
costlypavements
of
are
decorations
art ;
no
but
when
beheld
them and
often,we
longercharmed
Lucrosae
with
them,
they make
hujus
et
sanguinantis eloquentias.
Tacitus de Oratore.
25
no
of pleasure on impression
the mind
never
whereas
;
the
satiates us
it
on
is, as
some
new,
and
every
day puts
cultivation
not
an
entertain and
the
us." delight
"
Who,
his
pleasurein
his and
of
garden
has
and
shrubberies,has
nate in-
love of
never
order
Who,
hours the
upon
and precipice,
scenes
untouched
poesy
of his
in planted
secret
mind ?
"
Who,
treads, with
the wise and
tion, satisfac-
the
good
have
sanctified
to
by
their
stand,where
former
have
been
fought, would
their
fortune
of the
stancy con-
world
for ?
"
and patriotism
inflexible
XXII.
may
As
be
all,that
reduced
to
is
in captivating
orders
nery, sce-
the three
the
of the
so
sublime;
be
the
beauty
of
form
and
countenance
vided di-
orders
of the
"
the graceful,
harmonic,
and
the
The magnificent.
magnifi-
26
cent
to applies
:
"
and
manner
in
man
the
consists
of the
as
magnificent
is of
nery, sce-
both,which,
uncommon,
than captivating in
either.
"
Admiration
in
beauty,whether
may
as
bodies,in morals, or
instinctive.
"
be
denominated has
Beauty,
Xenophon
nature
observed, is
quality, upon
of
"
which
and
every
royalty;"
in from
much
are
admired
essences
because is,
of
souls
the very
"
source
beauty, harmony,
and
One
of description
theorists have
that
no more
existence positive
we
As
well may
as
doubt
the
of reality
"
virtue and
bear
vice,
ness witof
count; ac-
of
!"
is association,
the
less
that
for every
which object,
awakens
pleasure
some
in the
mind,
or
is
since beautiful,
it possesses
internal sensation
external
of
which quality,
"
produces the
intrinsic
some
Hence
27
between
so
; and
as
nothing produces
the
emotions, as agreeable
a
practice
is
of
virtue,(for virtue is
medal,
whose
reverse
whatever happiness,)
is
virtuous,or
conducive
XXIII.
In the
the
true
of spirit
this
doctrine,
Wieland,
an
celebrated
German
elegantdialogue,conceived
executed Plato.
"
and
with He
a
all the
sweetness
of
imagines Socrates
for
Timoclea,
her
Athenian captivating
a
at virgin,
toilet;
"
dressed
festival in honour
of and
Diana; attired in
luxuriance
manner,
beauty of
"
nature
all the
of
art.
His
a
surprising
dialogue,in
beauty is
are
her, in this
which
the
gave
rise
to
subjectof
real and
"
apparent
The
at
arguments
end
a
by Timoclea,
the
herself
nothing
good
but
is, at the
union
of
time, intrinsicall
beautiful.
This
beauty,
is in strict
conformity
the
doctrines
28
of the ancient
Platonists and
the evidence
of all
experience*.
is derived
way
or
XXIV.
scenery,
we
The
may
from
to
other,
something,which
reference
to
immediate The
or
collateral
of Mr.
humanity.
"
conclusions
on
Alison,in
and
his
Essay Philosophical
are,
the Nature
of Taste, Principles he
therefore, perfectly
the
just; for, as
be
are
observes, unless
emotions
of
imagination
or
excited,the
unfelt ;
beauty
increases
sublimity
the powers in like
hence, whatever
of that
those
emotions
proportion ;
as
productiveof
taste, in which the
same
simple emotion,
unity is
of
that
not
ed preserv-
f.
"
Hence
writer elegant
"
deduces That
the each
"
Maximus
Tyrius
Lib.
in.
ix.
101.
Seneca
de Off.
de Beneficiis. Lib.
m.
c.
v.
1. 2.
Lucretius.
calls
Cicero, noble
3.
"
"
virtue,
iv.
"
Rerum.
Lib.
I.
f Ch.
Sect. 2. 3.
Ch.
ii.
Sect. 2. 3.
30
one
feels how
much
even
the most
magnificent
view
if a shepherd is seen, tending his acquires, if a hunter, the precipices, or flocks, among weary the crags, of bounding among
"
Throws
loose
him
on
the
to
ridgy steep
"
Of
some
hanging
rock
sleep.
Hence
it
as
every
should landscape
every sound
be observed
must
its proper
so point,
be
heard
place.
"
Who
is not
of
the
can
huntsman, if
listen
or
garden?
and who in
a
to
the the
house,
of
a
to
lowingof
room
cattle
near
the windows
drawingtions, sensa-
?
"
and
yet, how
lambs
are agreeable
our
when
cows
bleat upon
the
the and !
"
mountains,
the huntsman's
low
among
meadows,
bugleecho throughthe
XXVI.
the art of
woods
All
our
more
celebrated fail to
masters, in
their
never painting,
animate
tively comparaSalvator
unmoving
Rosa without far less
were
the creations
of
his groupes
were interesting
31
woods
of the his
romantic
Claude, were
we
to
punge ex-
his ruins !
"
The
poets
same
to
embellish their
subjects
in the
Grongar Hill."
XXVII.
Grongar!
"
My
immediately imagination
"
transports
me
thither!
This
celebrated
most
eminence,
my
Lelius, is
of the
situated vale
of
in the
picturesque part
place do
of
Towy.
"
No
the combinations
and
water,
mountain,
"
ruin, assume
have
been
such
variety: exquisite
I have
sacred
the
moments, spot !
"
passed, on
that
enchanting
Grongar ! in
whose
mossy
cells,
:
quiet dwells
silent
in whose
muses
shade,
modest
at
made,
So
At
evening still,
of
a
rill,
upon my
flowery bed,
beneath my
over
hand
my o'er
;
head;
strayed
hill and house
to
eyes wood
Towy's flood,
house,
from her
Kill to
fill.
"
hill,
contemplation had
32
desire of solitude
a
beloved
"
by
the
a
good
love
and of
sought as
refuge
am
by the great. By
from
to alluding
far solitude,
I
ciety, so-
that
dislike misanthropic
to
of
which
order to A
impelsman
forsake
his
in fellow,
"
a indulge
selfish and
passion. indignant
is seldom
scenery,
gendered en-
by
of contemplation
which
impelsonly to
charms
an
that
we
of which
whisper to
a
friend :*"
realized in idea,exquisitely
fine
entitled picture,
Solitude,
and
now
Majesty.
solitude :"
"
"
Nature,"
many
to
an
says
Cicero,
"
abhors
and
ingenious argument
that
a
has
been
duced ad-
prove,
is
thies sympa-
papers,
a
however,
I find
remarkable
account
of
that solitaire,
"
It is a
a
of abridgement work
about
paper,
in published
"
riodical peof
the year
1781.
The
name
this
was solitary a
lived
farm
Glenorchay.
"
He
obtained
Note
8.
33
his livelihood
"
His
dog
social
was
and
companions. At
"
distance
was
in the wildest
tains, mounlofty
and
most
Glenorchay
of these
In
the
midst
the
"
autumn, He
and
principal part
few
of
possessed a
"
goats, which
were
among
property, and
more.
"
rocks
and
heaths, he
game.
"
ranged the
the
to
In
eveninghe
hands
or
to
led them
them
his
own
hut. solitary
There after
with
of the
his
game
; and
takinghis
he
supper
fish he
own
had
caught,and
and
which
he dress^
down
manner,
of
his
dog
He
women
sired de;
associate with
a
neither
but
was
if
casual
generous
even
and hospitable !
"
to
Whatever
upon
he
a
his guest; at
to
time,too,
vol..
II.
not
where
procure
34
the next
meal
for himself.
to
"
When descend
the
to
of severity
obligedhim
with
one
the
village,
society,
no
evident
as
reluctance he
into
where
one
thought
acted
did,and
"
where To
lived
or
after his
manner.
relieve
from
his
as species,
he possible, of
every
morning
and bed
before
never
dawn
day
in search
of game,
to
returned
tillnight, when
one.
"
he crept all
without
after
"
seeingany
the
manner
With
he this,
dressed
of the most
finished coxcomb!
a
His
wild and
elegance ;
tied with
was
his
a
which hair,
was
naturally
:
thick, was
his look
silken and
his lofty,
: high-minded
and, were
asked He he
was no
he
one
want,
he
would
have !
"
morsel slightest
:
"
of food
truly
the
man solitary
and !
"
yet
was
hospitable,
and charitable,
humane
XXVIII.
But
man,
animated
can
by
lean
the
mon com-
impulsesof
to
enjoy nothing
upon
effect alone.
"
must
his
arm,
listen
to
his
secret
it were,
partner in his
35
his impressions are or comparatively feelings, it to shower Were down dull and spiritless. welcome the gift, had gold,we should scarcely
"
we
no
friend
"
to
us congratulate
on
our
good
and
tune. for-
All would
and
forms
world
before
our
the
sight ;
"
pallupon gratification
is this in that where
of the
senses.
How
triumph of
Adam
social
of the in
feeling depicted
Paradise
exquisite passage
Eve addresses !
"
Lost,
worthy language,
goldenage
thee
seasons
With All
conversing
and their
change;
please alike.
"
Sweet
With When His
breath
of morn, birds
risingsweet
sun,
of earliest this
pleasant the
he
delightfulland
on
spreads flower,
orient beams,
herb, tree,
;
fruit and
Glistering with
After Of soft
dew
fragrant
sweet ; then
the the
fertile earth
showers
; and
coming
on
silent
night,
Writh
\nd
bird, and
heaven,
starry train
she ascends
But With
On
breath
of morn,
when
of earliest
birds,nof
;
nor nor
rising sun
delightfulland
dew
;
Glistering with
Nor
With Nor
fragrance
;
nor
gratefulevening
this her solemn
mild
night,
noon,
"
bird, nor
by
without glisteringstar-light
is sweet.
iv.
/. 639.
36
XXIX.
derive
as
Retirement, my
from shining
us
to
ner, man-
its own
other
globefor
of his
a
heat.
and
"
fountain,
in living
world
recluse, (towhom
is
a
dukedom
becomes
almost
for invincible;
the
world,
celebrated French is
a
writer
solitude
to
him
and prison,
solitude is
only beneficial
of
as
the
wise
be
and there
"
the
gendered, en-
good ;
Numa
since schemes
as
rapinemay
well
one
plans of
of the
beneficence.
If
of
retired to
order
deepest recesses
in Etruria,
criminal
and
solitude of Mount
with men,
first formed
and
the corrupting
"
manners
and
morals
of
kind. man-
XXX.
To
men
of weak
and
unenlightened
p. 15.
Vid.
Abulfeda.
vit. Moham.
33
as
he crept into
he existence,
is
on forgotten
the
morrow
J
"
XXXI.
my scenes,
more
How
many
Creatures of this
tion, descrip-
Lelius,are
to captivating
of
Titian,Salvator
and which
Rosa, or
of
Claude !
"
the
hand
of ornament, mind
nuous ingewhich,
in
if we
remember
mics, pole-
of verbal
theology,
of impatience and disgust. feelings And in such scenes as yet, though residing well might we as these, attempt to reconcile the
do
so
with
"
of writings
Aristotle the
with
the of
doctrines
of
the
as
after Scriptures,
example
to
Trapaezund ;
with
well lius
might we
of the
endeavour
prove,
Marcitery mysbe
our
attempts
and
to
unite the
geological systems
and
of such
of Le
Whiston
Luc,
as
as
recluses
are
them,
capable
their
or pleasures
tlieirvirtues*!-
Note
9.
XXXII.
In
retirement, however,
the
man
of
ment orna-
learningor
;
of
all
his
concentrated
and
to
his
desires moderated.
to
To
those, devoted
worldly or
temperate
the weary
to
scientific
is
rest, which
organs of the
of
necessary
"
to
activity. It
materials of
art, and
to
affords
arrange
thought,to polishthe
the labours of
works
genius.
"
"
To
objected a
if the
:
"
tution desti-
employment;
censure
"
and
accusation
were
just,the
were
severe
For,
out with-
occupation,the
preys
even
mind
we
becomes become In
it listless;
upon
to
and itself,
melancholy
he
we
weariness
err
of life.
"
therefore, nothing,
when which
says,
does
Pliny
are
more,
than
that
to
there
be
only two
"
"
things, by
let
ought
or
actuated
love of immortal
"
fame
be
tinual con-
But inactivity."
no
one
actuated
this
To
to
live without
labour
to
the both
causes
body ;
are
be indolent is fatal
to
the mind
the
; and
destined, by nature,
of
be
operative
by Seneca,
each
other's
are
misery'.
"
The
listless torments
of indolence
well described
40
on
the
of Tranquillity another
the
Mind;
and
even
part
of his works,
are
that observing
the mental
faculties the
an
raised
and
of activity
by drawing
senator,
into retiring
himself guarding
"
from
lassitude
by continual occupation.
XXXIII.
to
And engage
our
does
retirement
"
offer
no
jects obon
attention ?
a
does
it not,
of
ments amuse-
hand, present
succession
Can
"
ever ried changing and ever vapleasures, who has a garden ? Can he want exercise, mental who has a library? he want recreation,
Can
to objects
engage
nature
his
who research,
volume On all
may
"
of
alwaysunfolded
so
him*?
varied
to
and
so
are delightful
votary
temperate
the
solitude
triumphantly
whether the
in enquire,
languageof Cicero,
of the
can
or table,
gay amusements
of
a
mistress
that enjoyments,
may
with
the calm
of delights
Note
10.
41
never
fail to
"
improve
and
not
to
a
our
years*?"
in
Is there
consolation
more
nothingcan
with
no
be
season?
not
"
they do
"
soothe,or
the
sorrow
When
body, instead
sensual
is sated with
does
not
the
mind
new
improve
"
and
to
employments?
a
Is not
of
every
in knowledge is not
one
new
source
? delight
and
joy,we
of possession
we
expect
to
Yes,
a
my
dear
and
love
far
a
of letters have
more
them,
transcendent,than the
vapid nonsense
world !
"
of
XXXIV.
No
writer,ancient
he hcec studia
or
modem,
has
In
another
place
says,
res
adolescentiam
alunt,
et
senectulem
secundas ollectant,
per-
fiigiumprccbent ;
tant
delectant domi,
foris impediunt ;
pernoc-
42
shown Horace.
beauty, than
every
It is indicated
"
in
almost
ode,
If he
wine,
"
the
too
:"
sing,
Lydian measures,
the
rose
of his
mistresses,
is not
no
sweeter
perfume.
another in war?
a
One
he
invites
to
the
woods,
beds he its
and
he
as describes,
on reclining
of roses,
cool
"
and
shady grotto.
"
Does
sing
of
he
forgets not
with the rural
to
contrast
a
and pa'ins
its horrors
of pleasures
animals,and
Rome
or
rural
population. Upon
"
couch, at
at
the
joys of Bacchus,
of the the
he
mind
the
season
when vintage,
hang,
the
upon
in
on purple clusters,
vines ;
when
in various
"
groupes,
margin
of
river.
"
With
a
fountain
of clear
am
water,"
says
a
he,
"
and
shady
wood,
Ah!
happier than
I
and
princeof
the
waters
Africa."
how
am
when delighted,
wanderingamong
shades
of rests fo-
steep rocks
and
woods;
since
of
the
murmuring
me
inspire my
in all future
fancy, and
ages.
"
will render
ye
famous
Sing,oh!
the virgins,
beauties of Thes-
43
salian Tempe,
oh ! celebrate,
and
ye
the
wandering isle of
charms
and
Delos
youths,the
lives
of that
dess, god-
who shades
in the
of
the
mountain
Algidus, among
manthus
"
and
on
How
happy
is he
his various
villas!
"
and
with what
does delight
a
he celebrate the
superior
epode
!
advantagesof
"
poem,
which
tion recollecold
Claudian's
of Verona.
XXXV. that if
do
a man
Pliny, who
would
was
accustomed
to
say,
must
thingsworth
never
or recording,
thingsworth
he
was
was reading,
than happier,
at
when
dulging inhe
lebrate ce-
his country
to
seats, where
to
write
his his
and friends,
views, which
says
villas afforded."and
Thuscum,"
"
he, with
a
honest
elegant
pride,
formed
is situated in
towering summits
crowned
with
oak, and
Lib.
in.
ode
15.
iv.
ode
26.
ode'4.
ode
3.
i.
ode
21.
44.
broken
into
springs,
spersed inter"
sides,and
and
fields, copses,
observes
vineyards."
" letter,
Here," he
most
in another retirement
:
"
enjoy
and
no
the
profound
less,than
health in this of
unclouded
sky, to
that
body,
and
cheerfulness of
mind, which,
"
I place,
so
seats
the Larian
Lake,
"
two
ner, man-
of
The
he villas,
;
described
because
in but
letter to Fuscus
we
have would
an
imperfectidea
sent
of
I villas, of the
have has
you
tion transla-
he description, had I
not
givenof
his villa at
Laurentium,
negligenceof diligent
the admiration
of the
great Erasmus.
am
"
In
tempted, with
the
are
give
they
the
Cicero
preference,
of
a
the
of subjects
but
public
of
nature;
when
to
to
the
and
sentiments private
the
Plin.
Epist. Romano,
vn.
46
wear
vivid laurel of
from
an
the
poetic wreath.
branch of the
of
scended De-
honourable
cause
the
Al-
bian
he foughtthe family,
people by
mated ani-
Messala,
all the that
at
fervencyof
friendship grateful
he
distinguished statesman,
his that fatal
none
dained disto
follow
of
example, in payingcourt
day.
"
the conqueror
The
crown
of
Augustus
derived
of
from
the
praisesof
contest, and
the
Tibullus.
"
Weary
hopeless
dulge in-
disgustedwith
retired to innocent his
corruptionsof
"
times, he
in the
Pedum;
there
a
to
of occupations
country
in
life ;
"
to
recruit
impaired finances,and,
of
the
alternate
amusements
agricultureand
;
invoke
the
favours
of
his mistress ;
"
and,
above
genuineideas
from the
of
which liberty,
he had
imbibed
in
splendid examples of
"
XXXVII.
Sir William
If life were
"
not
too
short,"says
Jones,
for the
complete discliargv
47
of all
and
our
duties,publicand respective
private,
for the
in any
and
of it be
spent, in
orb !"
"
This
"
observation
be
true
of spirit
Plato.
or more delightful,
whole
life, spent in
"
unsatiating employment.
numerous
"
objects are
and important,
one,
and
diversified,
uses
that alluring,
no
duly
secrets, retires
from
her
study with
disgust.
"
XXXVIII.
upon than his taste
upon
Cicero,who
for the
valued
himself
more
cultivation of
philosophy,
not to
have
adage,so
he had
common
in of many
Europe
sions man-
day,"
home; "for
all erected
was
parts of Italy.
"
They
were
in such
to at
beautiful
"
tions, situa-
that he
of
"
induced
retreat
*
call them
Italy*." His
Tusculum
was,
Note
12.
48
"
This spot
in
was
sessed, pos-
those
tumults
which Italy,
have
robbed
by
Basilian
of Grecian
monks,
called
ment amuse-
Grotta
the favourite
to
of the brothers
to
of that monastery
exhibit,
remains
learned
and
of
Cicero's
aqueducts,
the
orator
garden.
"
every
specimen
friend Atticus
"
could
most
purchasefor
him
at
Athens
It
was
the
elegantmansion
beauty of the
to
of
age;
around
and
the
landscapes
it,adding lustre
the
refined building,
"
the taste
XXXIX.
Diocletian,when
he
selected
peculiar care,
admit.
no
"
"
that
palaceshould
nature
command
every
beauty, which
The
of the Mr.
country would
Adams
views,"says
than the stretched
f, "were
climate
the
were
less beautiful,
wards : toinviting
west,
lay
fertile
shore, which
which
a num-
Note
13.
of + Antiquities
Diocletian's
palace
at
Spalatro,p.
")'
49
ber
of small islands
as
are
scattered in such
ner, man-
to
givethat part of
"
the
sea
the appearance
of
great lake.
to
On
bay, which
the country proper
trast con-
led
the ancient
to
that
more
extensive
prospect of water,
to
which
to
the east.
Towards
the
north,the
terminated
tuated mountains, siirregular and in many at a proper distance, places, and vineyards." covered with villages, woods The example of Diocletian was, long after, membered reby Charles the Fifth of Spain,who
by high and
"
his Roman imitating prototype, derived but littlecomparativefame, and deserved less. It in
"
was
the extreme
beauty
which idea of
of the
of St.
Jerome,
an
first
that inspired
restless
had he
long
and
many
to
years
before
he retirement,
a
his
attendants,
spot, to which
Diocletian
mighthave
of this
retired with
pleasure.The
"
remembrance and. at
to
placenever
of the
VOL.
deserted
him ;
"
length, weary
a
he world,
II.
withdrew
E
the
of melancholy
50
cloister*, where,
his the
in silence and
he solitude,
tombed en-
in
hope
of
portionof
consolation his
having so longagitated
devastations and
his
Europe by
his projects,
publicmurders.
XL.
on
The which
imagination can
it of
more
a man
select
few
jects, obthan
to delights
repose,
of talents and
"
integrity
by
of
public life.
vast
Surrounded
creation,
All
the distant
can
keep,
his
Rolls
soothes
sleep.
"
Such
was
the retirement
of
Scipio ; when,
rich
in
ease
and
independenceat
with the
his villa of
Liits
ternurn.
"
There, charmed
the
of diversity
in landscapes, Lelius
conversation agreeable
and Lucilius,
of Terence,
and
in
his cultivating
farm, he enjoyedan
*
Sandov. 260.
ii. 607.
Zuniga.
xvii. 609.
bertson. Ro-
51
and
glory.
"
There
it
XLI.
excuse me
And
here,my
for of
that
tural na-
public scourge
result of
odium
"
is the almost
of
whose
tongue
outvenoms
all the
be
worms
of
to Nile,"ought imperiously
exposed ;
not
only
ciety so-
of
"
but truth,
for the
welfare of
large. For
who
is
to
public pest, unless his character is displayed to the garish than against a eye of day," any more,
felon, unless
who he
be
convicted ?
"
He, therefore,
gation oblithe
other *.
XLII.
of he
Armed
with
all the
of
a
mean
insolence
audience, willing
a
from hisses,
behind
his
at curtain,
thousand
By
an
ancient
law
of
Scotland
a. criminal
of this sort
was
punished with
death.
e2
52
good
and
estimable
to
before characters,
an
the world
what
odious
"
and
detestable
his career,
But listening.
in envy,
malice,and
abhorrence
tutored and
men,
by folly,
"
finishes in contempt, He is
disgrace.
feared
"
despised by
and
all honourable
as a
by
the weak,
shunned
"
: pestilence
his infamy
is unpitied and
have
;
"
those,who,
even
eaten
of
so
his
poison, partake
is the nature
a
and
detestable
this is
nest
of wasps
be
found,
we
never
fail to ashamed
mutuallyafraid
XLIII.
The
"
and
other!
"
duty
The
more
of
expositionperformed,
hornet, having lost its
the
anxiety subsides.
can sting,
stingno
; and
viper,having
and dies*.
dischargedits venom,
To has and be
sickens pines,
envied, and
an
therefore
to
on
be
traduced,
eminent,
long been
shall any
to
impost settled
man,
the
pigmy
of
modern
date, presume
it has
been
escape
that
when tribute,
the
most
paid, in
all ages,
by
illustrious of all
Note
14.
54
XLV.
attends
which happiness,
to
others, we
the standard that
man,
are
too
apt
own
judge
by
consider
or
of
our
and feelings,
happy
with To been
our
or
miserable,who
tastes,
our
sents dis-
complies opinions.
"
manners
and
our
those, whose
curbed the
unbounded
or
desires
have
never
by prudence
how virtue,
of
rit spiphilosophic
years,
Adrian,
at
those
as
which
he
to
passed life;or
"
the Villa of
Adriana,
son
only belonging
of
that
Corcutus,
death
of
Bajazet the
tus Corcuthe army
Second!
was,
Upon
the
Mahomet,
of
by the unanimous
consent
and
various
in struggles,
preference to
at
Upon
he
Bajazet'sarrival
however, Constantinople,
resignedthe
a
perial im-
yearlypension,
of
the
government
and
of the
provinces delightful
he lived
Lycia, Caria
content
Ionia, where
of
free and
"
"
in the
quietstudies
he,
in
an
philosophy.
oration of
a
I ther, fa-
esteemed
"
it,"says
to
his
unbecoming
mind,
to
the resolution
for
calm
and
settled
pant
those
worldly possessions,
of
when,
in the sweet
meditations is feasted
heavenly
things, my
ravished
mind
with
objects
55
of far
more
worth
and
all the
doms king-
and
monarchies
XLVI.
Upon
of
the death
of her
Marquis
to
the island
of
situated Ischia,finely
gave
of
a
near
the
bay
Naples,
and
herself
man,
to
so
up
to
the
sorrow,
which
to
the death
not
deservedly
"
dear
her, could
fail
occasion.
many
Her
beauty and
noble
wealthy and
all.
"
suitors,
with
but
she refused
of the
them
the beauties
she island,
"
to
the
of inspirations
of
the muse,
became
Italy,and
"
celebrated
by all the
or
of her time.
walking
the
sea-shore,she meditated
have entitled her the There
most to
of those
poems,
tion men-
which
such
honourable
among
of the Petrarchian
school.
her
"
it was,
her Sonnets
and
Canzone, poems,
at
an
with her
ten Stanze,writ-
earlier age,
in
lively description
and
natural
pathos.
"
XLVII.
at
was
born amid
Sorrento, the
of his
situated father,
56
the
finest scenery
he
in all
never
Italy.
"
Born
in such
delightful spot,
of nature,
occurrences
relish exquisite
unfortunate
solation only con-
which,
in many
was life,
of his
; and
while
was
in living
of
he Ferrara,
never
than happier,
at
to
his retirement
watered
Belriguardo,
by
the Po.
"
by gardens,and
XLVIII.
Ariosto
"
was
an equally
admirer
of fine Fuand
landscape
rioso
are
and
many up
parts of
with
taken scenery,
describingthe
several
of
romantic
in which
the
pal princi"
actions,he
the
were celebrates,
performed.
house, which
In he
gardens, belonging
for himself
cantos
verse
to
the
erected added
in
to
the
city of Ferrara, he
poem, of
several
into
and
the
the
was
Casceedingly ex-
the Suppositi#.-r-Leo
to partial country
Tenth
diversions
at
and
rural
scenery.
so
"
His
villa
at
Malliana
length became
it for quitted
"
to him, delightful
that he seldom
Rome, unless
upon
the most
urgent occasions.
Note
16-
57
His
return
was,
at
all
times, greetedby
the in
most
of
his
neighbourhood,iu
"
manner.
They
met
him,
bodies, upon
and
measure
him presented
with the
flowers
common
fruits ; of
happy, beyond
the
when felicity,
any
In return, he gave
them
partook alike
bestowed entered the
most
bounty;
the
upon
the damsels
he
on portions
day
of
marriage,and
into conversation
with
his
with neighbours
like Titus
Vespasian,nothing more
from
"
becoming
the
sending
his presence
contented, cheerful,
and
happy.
XLIX.
have
been and
The
so
eclogues
beauty
sentiment, was
of his villa at
was
Mergillina ;
and
so
strong
sequent sub-
in
by the
unfortunate
have
58
L. At
Borgo Taro,
of
in the Ma-
duchy
nara,
of
wrote
Parma,
those
Prospero, Marquis
and pastorals
sonnets, which
for established,
their
author, a
"
celebrity nearly
At
of
a
subsequent
the the his
mirable ad-
premier to
return to
Parma,
the this
that he
might
the
country,
and he
studies of
his
youth.
Fifth of
At
period
completed
"
translation of the
Georgics. Philipthe
love
of the
beautiful
grand, by choosing,as
retirement,a
in
vast
the
litary so-
place of
There,
he
occasional
deep
and
wood,
about
embosomed
two
mountains.
"
miles from
the
of Segovia, city
so
erected
the the
palace of
natural
St.
Ildefonso,and
of the
embellished
that
mere
an
beauties
place,
the
re-
enthusiastic traveller*
sightof
a
them
were
alone
compence
journeyinto Spain.
than happier, when
LI.
Martial
the
was
never
joying en-
of delights
his favourite
Anxur, situated
among
craggy
Mons.
Bourgoanne.
59
ries*.
"
Lope
"
de
Vega,
whom in
the
writers Spanish
as celebrate,
admirable
in
in
heroic,melodious
pastoral, grave
dramatic
epic,
for
and
ingeniousand
whose the
fertile in
poetry,"
and him
wrote
multifarious
of appellation of his best
"
writingsprocured
the
Muse
of the
Spain,"
many
piecesamid
and
agreeable
"
around landscapes It
was
Villa Franca
Oropeta.
in the service
in the that
still more
mirable, ad-
of
genius to
the
contemplationof
the and beside the for natural
on
the
mountains,
beauty, which
nature
him
to
sent, repre-
canvass,
most
and lovely
most
attire. captivating
of
And
the Abate
to
Metastasio
be
neglectedto
that the in the
notice
it is not it,
but questioned,
and
art
works magnificent of
of nature
bourhood neigh-
the
Martial, Lib.
x.
Ep.
58.
In
another
epigram
he
bursts
out,
O
Nemus,
Fontes!
solidumque madentis
Anxur
arena*
Littus," requoreissplendidus
aquis !
60
no
small
degree,to
when
to
overcome
the
resolution he
of
that
an
elegant man,
Rome
he had
"
bade,as
He
had
thought,
his
eternal adieu
at
poetry.
wasted
fortune
in
had
unprofitable yet
uncriminal the
care
advocate
of Naples, Paglietti
firm had
resolution of
"
resuming
some
sion profestime,he
own
the
his
clinatio in-
till, by
was
of
Althan, he
on
persuaded to
the the drama
write
an
epitha-
lamium
telli; the
to
the
marriageof
the
Marquis Pignaof
this succeeded of
Endymion,
Gardens
till, by captivated
and
poetry,
lish embel-
animated
the
by
of
lovelyscenes,
which
bay
gave
Naples, he
to
againneglectedthe
his favourite
amuse,
law,
ment.
and
himself up
LII.
It is
impossibleto
He
was never
describe
his
the
sure, pleawhen
which
at
Petrarch
"
enjoyed in
was
never
hermitage celebrating
Vaucluse*. from
truly happy
weary
away
it;he
never
of
its
and beauties,
62
sometimes
I leave them
on
behind
me.
"
the future.
"
place I
Rome here
whom I
am
to agreeable
and
Florence, as
desires; imagination
enjoy my
I have
friends; not
longbeen
"
only by
their works."
declared,that
was
happiestsummer,
small island
of
he
ever
joyed, en-
in the
Inarine, near
called what
Naples;
"
the
Epitome
the whole
earth*.
"
And
enthusiast of
nation is
of ignorant adorned
"
of
her age ?
Your
gination, imayou
to
my
Lelius, immediatelywafts
Rowe.
"
the tomb
of Elizabeth
compare
measure even
woman,
were
with
the
was
whom
to
Julia
herself
"
highest
that grew, did
not
of
panegyric!
in her
There
a
or insect,
bird,
crept,
or
sung
garden, which
administer
In
*
to
her
happiness f.
of
LIII.
the
Note
retirement
18.
his
19.
bishopric,
Note
63
Fenelon
wrote
his Telemachus.
"
The
virtuous
after Sully,
at himself,
Villebon, duringa
riod pe-
of in
a
thirty years,
and
retreat delightful
a
idol of
every
gay
tree
"
in his
piness. hapwith
Sir Walter
the admiration of
; and
Sir Robert
Walpole
nificent mag-
with planted,
hands, many
are now
of those
trees, which
"
the
prideof Houghton.
he says;
"
In
Churchill
news,
to
no
"
This
place
and
are
amusement
entertainment
:
flatterers
mutes to
the
seem chesnuts,
the
lord
of
not
the
They
cannot
deceive,
theywill
fill up
lie.
"
them, and
as
have
many of
beauties
about
no
me,
all my
me
hours from
and dangling,
grace dis-
attends
the age of
sixty-seven."
France
a
LIV.
a
Henry
the
Fourth
of
had
town
ways alin
small
the
64
to impossible
describe the
the revisiting
forest of
been
where, Folambray,
to
youth, he
had
accustomed
regale
himself with
of fruit*.
milk, new
LV.
The
a
and elegant
unfortunate
Earl of Essex,
too, was
and the
once,
varieties,
of
take
the command
army
most
he
a
would
letter to his he
Queen mistress,
of the
Elizabeth, in which
a
complained
lines.
"
appointment as
species
of banishment
; and
Happy
In From
Of
he
could
furnish
forth
his
fate,
obscure
some
unhaunted
desert love
most
all
from society,
folk
and
hate he
worldly
wake
j then
should
sleep
secure.
"
Then
again, and
with
yield God
hawes
ever
praise,
bramble-berry;
Content In
hips
and
and
his
to
days,
make be
a
change
he
of
holy thoughts
tomb
him
merry,
Who, when
Where
dies, his
robin
may with
bush,
harmless
dwells
gentle thrush.
ii. 381.
Vid.
Mem.
Sully. Vol.
65
LVI.
circle of love him of in
Iu the retirement
of
Biberach, in
the
Suabia, Wieland
poetry, which
eminent
imbibed
that ardent
afterwards
manner.
"
distinguished
celebrated lover he
en
so
The
Alonzo of fine
D'Ercilla, too,
"
was
an
enthusiastic
landscape. During
a
the in
time,in which
commanded
small
force
Chili,he
of Amid
was
gaged in
a
war
Auracauna,
the toilsand
ferocious
tribe of America.
he
dangers,which
considered the
encountered
a
warfare,he composed
as a
poem, boast
on
has
"
been
of subject
Spain.
rock,
or
On
clining re-
midnightwatch,
near
an
stretched
impetuous torrent, he
immortal
"
conceived
and
blished, esta-
which ideas,
for
himself,an
fame
in
the
annals of
Spanishliterature.
The
LVIT.
first called
of the
now
selected exhibited
for
of poetry, species
nature
the
various beauties of
"
in the minutest
details.
Warm
from
the works
of
charms, and
"
animated of
ner Ges-
with
VOL.
new II.
: impulses F
the town
Berg being
66
beautiful
part of the
of
canton
To
the memory
this
a
enchantingmonument,
nature
and
urn,
poesy
are
his
in
most
lovelyspot
and
of
romantic Sihl.
watered valley,
by
the Limmat
the
The
an
late amiable
unfortunate
Mr.
Collins,
was imagination,
grand and
beautiful in
landscape.
"
His
ode ode
to
to
Libertytestifies his
freedom; his
and feelings
the
was
gance eleof
desirous he
and
majestic scenery
will
of
sufficiently
All
hail ye scenes,
that
and
o'er
my
soul
prevail!
far away,
Ye
Are
splendid friths
by
Don's smooth
lakes, which,
filled,or
Annan
pastoral Tay,
!
"
Or The
time
I, perhaps,
with
may
tread broom
,
Your
spreading
Note
20.
67
Or Or o'er your o'er your
creep,
more
in awful
the faded
gloom. bower,
"
Then Where
Or Or
sat
in Drummond's
classic
shade;
crop, mourn,
Teviot-dale, each
Yarrow's
on
flower, lyric
the widow'd
banks,
maid
i
"
Ode
the
xiii.
LIX.
The
love of divided
and landscape
sway
the love of
of the
literature held
learned and
in the mind
"
Gibbon. accomplished
habit and
In
foreign
his
country, which
own,
he
which
society, by enjoyedthe most agreeable he was noured. highlyesteemed, beloved and ho"
In
of possession be scarcely
not
scenes,
of
which
can parallel
found
in any
quarter
of
the had
Gibbon globe,
the
of
to felicity
only possessedthem,
with gifted
"
but
be
mind,
ble capa"
them. enjoying
There
"
at
Lausanne
proudlysituated on
and
the lake of
Geneva, he began
of his
his
fame,
of the Roman
Empire.
true
There
is
mixture
of
pathos in
of
"
"
the passage,
where
the close
presumed
mark,"
says
he,
of
the
moment
(amid conception,
f
the ruins
6S
Rome;)
my
I shall
now
commemorate
"
the hour
on
of
or
final deliverance.
It
was
the
day,
rather
nightof
the hours
of eleven
that twelve,
a
summer-house
my pen,
garden.
"
After in
a
layingdown
walk of
I took
several commands
turns
a
covered
Acacias,which
the mountains.
was
The
air
was
serene,
upon
"
all nature
was
silent.
of
I will not
dissemble
of my of my
a
joy
on
the recovery
establishment
soon
But
my
pridewas
spread
taken
an
humbled, and
my
sober
was melancholy
over
mind, by
the
an
idea, that
old and
I had
of
panion, agreeablecom-
might
be
the
future
might
short and
!" precarious
The the
Mr.
Gray
dtfrom
of in
of
of productions in many
be observed
passages
works, poetical
and
more
70
of bishoprick
man,
Chester.
Porteus he
"
Never ! and
was
there the
better of
than
age,
Dr.
for
honour
be
the
in which
lived,let
"
him
good
ever
tinguish disof
by
London."
so
"
bishop
him
are
Africa,in
considerable
of
degree,
that
monstrous
so
long a disgraceto
"
proud
and
happy
of
a
try: coun-
he their
a
assisted
in
formation the of
society
he
for
was
conversion
encourager
Christian
Faith;
warm
Sunday
schools
; and
an
of earlypatronizer
Lancaster's
education.
"
As his
master,
servants
he
so
kind
over
and
indulgent,that
grave
;
as a
shed
to
tears
his
and of
so
he friend,
a
was,
excess,
ardent
sincere ;
as
preacher, so
admirable
in
point
in argument elegant,
court
whole
hung
with
holiest
rapture
on
his
lips ;
and
a more
never,
in the
historyof
audience
at
admiring
assembled,
advanced the
than
of
at
the
lectures, which,
delivered
the from
age
he sixty-seven,
pulpit of
"
St. James's
Westminster.
of England
He
was,
!
"
71
LXII.
And
a
here,my
remarks
pardon
few
the
comparative
the power of
have
immortality, splendid
AND LITERATI
!
"
of
two
"
first are
dependant on
are
eternity ;
"
dependantonly on
have heard cian of Grehad such
statesmen
themselves.
or
For
would and
of Roman
heroes and
men
or
as
Herodotus
not
if there had
"
Tacitus?
When
of
we
the of
memories
of Charles
on
Spain and
of
Frederic
and
Prussia,or
the
names
Suwarrow
we
Napoleon,with
by
the the fields ! and
what
do disgust
trace
their routes
discolour
ears,
"
ping drop-
blood!
The
outcast, who
not
so
so vile, were a
beheaded worthless
Mary
and
of
was Scotland, ::
"
detestable
even
Chartres
Deity !
"
LXIII.
Statesmen!
essenced
warriors!
"
Men, who
palsythe
of
72
destruction with
whole
late depopu"
nations without
of such
"
speak not
or
men
as
Chatham,
and the
the
prideof
and
* *
of glory
#
earth !
"
But
of
Talleyrandand
LXIV.
as
*.
"
When
we
speak or
of
think of such
nature
men
these, (forthe
to
weakness
permitsus
not
guard
our
thoughts againstsometimes
men, any
more
of thiuking
are
such
than
our
eyes
in the disgusting privileged against objects graceful the character of disour thoughtswear streets,) moral uniformity. The same disgust
"
affects us,
whether
we
speak of Catherine
Medicis
"
of
Russia,or
with
not
Catherine
de
;
"
of
John
of
of England or Philip
France. with
Borgia and
prefer the
hamlet
of
who Sejanus,
eternal
silence of
to
the Hebrides
ous ignominithese?
"
of immortality
such
creatures
Men
as
a
and women,
towards
! perpetual gallow-tree
LXV.
is
Warfare
"
of
defence, my
rest
Lelius,alone
"
is
infamy:
and
the
man,
it or it,proclaims
assists in
it,
73
be
to
he
the
or
hisses of thus
an
But
v\jhydo
"
presume
satirize the
age?
and
Is
not
Russia, and
Germany,
Dues
not
assist these in
our
polemics? military
"
favour
;
it is
true
; but
screams
wind
she
world
In this
desperateand disgraceful
the Buffon.
warfare, my
shields of
Plato,Newton
LXVL
But
who
are
those,niched
live from
age
in the eternal
to
who amphitheatre,
age,
who,
to
the utmost
not
limits of
a
time,will
but
a
charm
"
instruct
are
only
nation
world?
are
those, of whom
hour
?
"
men enlightened
are
speaking
with
us
every
Who in
they,who
without
tears
walk
us,
accompany secrecy,
are
us
advise
"
in
and
reprove
frown?
Who and
they, who
the
dry the
of
we
of the
widow,
"
cheer
bosoms
the
wretched?
Whose
and
do birth-places
"
visit with
tombs
sympathy
we
Over
awe
whose ?
"
do
us
bend
to
with
Who
teach
derive
ness happi-
from
and ourselves,
thrill
us
74 delicate
emotions, of
? and
to
which
"
our
nature
is
ceptible sus-
whom,
do
hear
!
"
to
whom for
kingsand
To
look defeated
men,
when consolation,
"
they are
"
foiled,
and
? disgraced
whom,
but to those
who
unnoticed and unknown, through life, glide merits are whose and acknowledged grave ;
"
only in
not
on
the
men,
whose
or
memories
on
live,
on monuments, pillars,
but obelisks,
in the man!
"
of
every
amiable
are
and
enlightened
tion proporand
ture, rap-
images
extension
names
in multiplied the
are
to
of
human
race,
whose
honourable
even
echoed, with
"
throughthe
The
universe !
LXVII.
objects upon
be, in
the
of imagination
woman,
and energetic
ing astonisha
Madame
Roland, may
from
great
degree,conceived
her last her her
my
written
"
Pelagie.
herself
In
short time
fore beto
addresses
friends and
relatives.
servants
Farewell,my
my
child,
husband, my
sun! whose
my
and
friends
farewell,
to
thou
beams resplendent
used
shed it
to
over serenity
75
the
have you,
wont
skies
so
I and
often
contemplatedwith
of
emotion;
who
ye
to
Thezee,
whom
were
I attended
in
sickness ; whose
and alleviated,
;
"
whose
farewell, peaceful
my
I enriched
mind
with
truths,and learned
to
govern
my
"
and passions,
the despise
of vanity
the world."
LXVIII.
some
Madame
Helvetius
was
woman,
in
"
respects, not
been
Roland.
Having
return
husband, whom
in
she
at
loved his
the warmest
she affection,
a
became,
circle of
numerous
friends and
acquaintances.Retired
the wants
"
at
of of
and animals,
of plants. cultivating
One
day,
of
a
walking
with
Napoleon,
observed
to
then
first consul in
answer
France, she
he question,
him,
to
to
had
proposed
! you
person
are
her, "Ah!
sieur Mon-
grande consul
much
acres
littleconscious,how
may
happinessa
of
enjoyupon
three
ground]"
"
one
was
more
of scenery,
to
than
Schiller." It
of the
his delight
wander
at
upon
the banks
Elbe, near
was
Dresden,
in all his
the
time, when
the
sun
setting
an
magnificence ; and
heard the
often
has burst
nished astoan
passenger
poet
into
ecstacy
"Bravo!""
of
uncontrollable
and delight,
call out
LXX.
ever
But
no
writer, ancient
with
more
x"r
modern,
the
enjoyed nature
resembled
gusto, than
unfortunate
Rousseau, who,
the
no
in many
less unfortunate
at
"
During
beauties
his
residence
the
Hermitage, the
were
"
"
of the
surrounding country
to
tinual con-
source
of amusement
was
him.
"
Although
the
the weather
cold,"says he,
snow,
to
and
ground
there,
covered the
my
trees
when
I arrived the
begun
bud, and
evening of
of
arrival
distinguished by
was
the song
the
my
a
heard
almost
under
"
wood
After
change
Gre-
of
when nelle,
a
give
start, and
exclaimed
in
my
transport, 'At
78
sants, to whom
and to the himself
his
good-natureendeared
his remarks, and Goldsmith
saw,
him;
the
to which monasteries,
he recommended
by
the
of vivacity
"
written
account
of the
met
scenes
he
and been
the adventures
one
he
most
with,it would
have
of the
of travel.
"
To
the
of Rousseau simplicity
of elegance
Albani
would
of
have been
"
enthusiasm
Dupaty.
"
To
walk
"
this elegant
to
writer, when
in the hollow
to
sit
rock, when
it is
come
the various
and
sounds,that gatheron
raise the mind
"
every
to
above side,
below, may
its
The
solemn
roar
into swelling
and
caverns
beneath" the
the the
of
the guillemot,
of the heron the scene,
essence
loud
note
of the
to
scream
unite
and
turn
grandeurof
who is the
the mind
Him,
of
all
sublimity*."
Smollet, whose
*
LXXIL
genius was
m.
more
Hist
Earth.
Vol.
p. 282.
19
adapted to
of learn from
a
the
than ludicrous,
even literature,
the
fine passage
a
in his
pendence, Inderural
had
"
taste
for rural
scenes
and
contemplation.
Nature I'll court in her
sequestered haunts,
streamlet,
grove
or
By mountain, meadow,
Where And the
cell;
pois'd lark
and peace
his
health
and
LXXIII.
Parnel he should
time,when
milder
leisure
to
to
pursue
dedicate
and
geniusto
various and
the
observation
of nature
"
all her
contrasted
that walks
world that that that that
beauties;
his and
The
To
sun,
light the
moon,
stars
day
shines
with
borrow'd
light;
seas,
wood,
spreads
ears
its
shady leaves
the
field, whose
conceal of the
grain,
The
All
yellow
of
treasure
plain ;
these, and
be sung,
Should
by
me."
LXXIV.
of
No
one
was
more
ardent
admirer
Dr.
the
bolder
features
of
than landscape,
so
Beattie.
"
His
would
Hermit,
have
his
Retirement, and
his
Minstrel,
even
immortalized
his
his name,
on
if he had Music.
from
"
never
written
Essay
is
Poetry
gem,
tracted ex-
and
The
a
following passage
"
casket. jewelled
how Of
canst
thou
renounce
the
to
boundless
her
store
charms,
which
nature
vot'ry yields?
The
The
warbling woodland,
pomp the of groves
the
resounding shore,
of fields
;
and of
to
garniture
All,
that
genial
ray
morning gilds,
the song of
even
And
all,that
the
echoes
All, that
And O
shelteringbosom magnificence of
heaven
to
shields,
;
how
renounce,
and
hope
be
forgiven ! *
Minstrel.
LXXV.
that it should that ruined
one
The
be
so
love ! was
of
one
scenery,
unfortunate
causes,
"
of the many
sons.
Who,
a
heave
?
"
sigh,
that
the mention
Morris
;
"
Who,
on
sits beneath
;
"
stands
his precipice
"
looks
his Lover's
and
Leap
his
to
giant's cave,
shed
tear
of
regret
the memory
Note
'22.
81
hospitable, elegantand
an
all,
tures fea-
enthusiastic admirer
of nature, this those
the
more
noble
man accomplished
firstdisplayed the
eye
unrivalled
a
beauties
to
of
taste.
as
"
With
discriminative hand, he
veil from the
bosom
uplifted,
barrassed Em;
it were,
the
of nature,
"
without
lifted it.
improvehis domain
; his ambition
his of
hospitalities knowing
no
bounds
of Monmouth
some
in parliament
foreseen un-
under
the melancholy
time he
was
appointed governor
"
St. Vincent.
Before
he
England, he quitted
to
take
"
beauties. him
as
Upon
a
his
arrival,
the
who
:
"
loved the
men
father,crowded
sorrow
him
and
;
"
children with
tears.
While while
to
moved un-
this
some
melancholyscene
of the poor
went
and passing,
upon
down
him,
a
Morris
not
sigh nor
he
tear
escaped him.
"
When, however,
VOL.
crossed
G
Chepstow Bridge,
II.
82
and
took
on
last view
of the
a
castle, which,
ing stand-
the
edge
of
overlooks muffled
could
no
the
Wye,
and
which bells,
announced the
he departure,
longersupport
leaned
"
but
back
in his
like
an
infant.
the
state
:
"
proved he im-
colony,and
raised works
burse reim-
governor!
"
Thus
sinned
he against,
was
thrown
into the
King's Bench
to
prison by
"
his
on creditors,
his return
seven
England ;
and, during
the space of
of extreme
was
years, endured
"
all the
hardships
poverty.
to
Thus
niece
Lord
to
sold her
became
clothes insane !
"
After
enduringthese multiplied
of
seven
years,
he
was
at
lengthreleased
died in
and,
after
long years
and
of suffering,
at
ease comparative
comfort,
the
house
of
relative in
Bloomsbury Square *.
of Swiss scenery
LXXVI.
So
enamoured
was
Vid.
Archdeacon
Coxe's
Hist,
of Monmouthshire
83
who Pfiffer,
resided
he
at
Lucerne,
annual tions, elevaable remark-
made
correct most
"
Alps,in
local
order
to
obtain allthe
knowledgeof
placesin
return
that romantic
country.
Upon
at
his
terials ma-
from
these
that he
was
length
This
form
of all Switzerland
mastich.
the
"
model
contained
of picture perfect
vegetable
the of
and productions,
relative situations
every
elevations proportional
and village,
mountain, town,
"
lake in that
enchanting country.
LXXVII.
Catherine
of Even
Madame the
de
Pompadour,
the
Medicis,and
cynicDennis, were
from pleasure
a capableof receiving
sensible
works
of
nature.
"
The
first of these
discordant
took
bold characters,
infinite
and
voluptuousas
she was,
in forming the gardens and groves delight of Menars, which, as an instance of her peculiar she bequeathed to the Marquis of friendship,
Marigny.
"
Catherine
of
Medicis,
upon
whose
head
rested many
upon
atrocious the
havingmade
which
Si-
stillbears
her
name,
so
to leading
de
Blois,situated
many
a
to as exquisitely,
reminded
castles of
sour
Tasso,
dictive vin-
Boyardo
Dennis, the
and
Dennis,
wasp,
and
"
the
"
of industry I
never
in
gret, re-
my
"
left the
to
country without
it with
always returned
a
joy.
"
sightof
is
more
of the most
pompous
and edifice,
pleaseme
the most
u
beautiful
a
gardens,and
In
journey,"he continues,
the wilds of shewed the
me a
transporting sight,
shewn
"
country
or
had in
me
before,
prospects,
that of
in in
England
Italy. The
most,
which,
the and
Italy, me pleased
the
were,
Valdarno, from
the
"
Pyrenees;
the
that of
Rome,
of the it ;
from Mediterranean,
of
mountain that of
Viterbo:
Rome
at
at
forty,and
Mediterranean
and and every that of the
miles fifty of
distance
from
Campagne
from which
Rome,
from
Tivoli
see
Frescati
two
places you
even
Campagne,
from
86
were
most
part,in the
most
mantic ro-
scenery*:
would
of
"
merchant,dull,
whom
to
no
one
alive beingfeelingly
any
of the
of delights
nature,
his
with the hope of retiring the to a villa, on youth, of a canal,and on the portico banks a inscribing
happiness.
"
"
Shade
"
and and
"
Delight."
"
(t
Peace."
"
Rest
extensive
Prospect."
the
Peace
and
are
Leisure"
These
and
on
similar inscripti
coes porti-
of the villason
of the
"
canals, near
Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
LXXIX.
to
Herodotus
visited
but History,
observe
manners
as
well
as
the
people.
"
Plato
more
travelled with
the
same
views.
Many
a
of the
Greeks accomplished
to imperative,
thought it
mount
duty, almost
climb
Athos, Olympus,
and
Parnassus, where
was
temple
groves
of
Apollo
and situated;
whose
the sublime
Pindar, charmed
Note
23.
87
with
the
beauties
many
of
the
fixed landscapes,
best
years of
his
residence,for
"
of the
his life.
a
The
Emperor
Adrian
traversed, with
three
respondent cor-
rapture, the
and
confessed, with
that
all the
the gave
own
Etna,
at
of rising him
but
sun,
which glories,
ible contempt:
"
opinion
And the
one
of
his
most
imperial condition
Naturalists enlightened
of
the
of
often has
confessed
over
to
so
my
lighted demany
that he has
travelled such
an
and countries, in
taken
pleasure exquisite
branches moments, of
tural na-
the investigating
several
are
philosophy,that
he
were
there
has
that felt,
if the
of greatest gifts
to him, presented
he
stoicism of
indifference.
have ingratitude,
"
them
with
LXXX.
which friend the La
You
remember,
of !
"
my
Lelius,the effect,
had
upon
our
district
Rhinegau
This
Fontaine
of
in
presented re-
the electorate
as
Mentz,
and
are
Reisbach
has
most
descripenchanting
88
tion
of
it*.
"
-During
the and
one
of
those
intervals
a
of
which application,
renders
so
of profession
barrister
La Fontaine,
necessary
accompanied by
Paris
banks in and with
an
daughter, left
tour
intention of
"
takinga
some
along the
of the Rhine.
After
weeks
travelling,
which
time
at Welnich, theyarrived,
tiful beau-
evening,at Rhinegau.
"
small
in village
so
the district of
The and
so
villagewas
lovely and
they with
take
"
questered, se-
were captivated
its
to
up
their Weeks !
a
some
weeks.
lengthened into
"
; and
months friend
mansion
the
banks
of
the
Rhine,
there
quitit for
of
a
land foreign
!
"
Upon
in
the settlement he
regulargovernment
"
France,
returned
to
Paris
and
may
the
of blessings
his
"
family and
his friends
have
awaited
him
there!
LXXXI.
The
influence
of
scenery,
over
the
Note
24.
89
mind
and
heart
one
of Drummond of the of
of
Hawthornden,
of
constituted
his
accomplished
Miss
was
Cunningham."
the middle hours
"
His
to Hawthornden, retiring
beginning of period of
of Thither his
his his
happiness. There,
"
in the
Drummond life,
were
tasted those
enjoyment, which
Jonson
denied
to
to
his
youth.
travelled
enjoy the
he used, perand
pleasuresof
with
and conversation,
best away
there
the attention,
;
Greek, Roman,
the hours in
Italian authors
favourite
charmed and
a
Italian
Scottish
airs upon
to
lute, and
devoted
many
or
peaceful hour
science of
fascinating game
The loss of Miss
rather
chess*.
Cunningham increased,in
melancholy, to
gave
his
was
youth,that
of those
habitual
which birth
to
he
many
sonnets, the
sweetness
and Doric
tenderness
of of vation ele-
the
of
delicacies
tender
and feeling
some
vie with
of the best
Grecian
to
How
one,
so
beautiful well
is the
sonnet
a
his
lute,and
the
imitated from
"
passage
in Guarini's
*
Pastor
Note
Fido !
23.
90
Sweet
spring!
in
thou
com'st mantle
with
all
Thy
The The
"
head
flames,thy
curl the
bright with
of the down but
not
zephyrs
clouds
green
locks weep
"
plain,
the showers.
"
for
joy in pearls
"
Sweet
spring !
thou
com'st thee
ah
! my
pleasant hours,
;
happy
sad
days, with
come
again
memorials
thee the come, same,
only
which which
of my
turn
pain,
my
sweet wert
with
art
to sours.
still thou
before,
she, whose
;
nor
breath
imbalmed
gems go,
can
thy
her
wholesome
restore
:
"
air,
Is gone
gold,
nor
Neglected virtue,seasons
When thine
and
come,
a
forgot
lie closed
in
tomb
!
"
passage
of
Guarini Lord
is
admirably
imitated
on
improved by approach
my of
Lyttleton, in
in
his ode
Spring, which,
have
so
melancholy
sung,
moments,
concert
often
in
on
with
to
a
while
it
her the
harp
charming French
amiable
La
air,composed by
"
and elegant
Fontaine.
LXXXII.
nature
Milton, alive
the muse, honoured
to
every
feelingof
by adapting
own
and
Guarini
of his
circumstance which
fortune mishis
passage,
feelingly expresses
91
regret,that he could
and graces
no
longerenjoythe
nature*.
"
smiles
of all bounteous
Thus Seasons
with
not to
the year,
me
return, but
the sweet
of vernal
return
even
Day
Or Or
or
approach
bloom,
or or
of
or
morn
sight
summer's face
rose,
flocks,or herds,
human
divine."
How
which
happy Milton
he
to
was
was,
at
those
moments,
vote deand
the
pleasuresof
may
rural
retirement
we contemplation,
the
manner,
to
in
which
for
his
tude gratipure
his father
havinggranted those
and
innocent
indulgences.
custoditaque gentis
clamoribus
aures
Nee
Jura,
Sed Me
insulsis
excultam urbauo
damnas
magis
procul
altis
Aoniae
jucunda
per
otia
ripae,
"
lateri comitem
chari,"c.
"c.
Ad
Nor To did you force me, from mid
a
fairem. throng,
the bar's
hoarse
gather riches
nation's
wrong:
Note
26.
94
To And Mid You
higher hopes
leave
sweet
you
bade and
me
lift my
mind,
j
the
town
retreats, where
me
Aonian
"
glide,
placed
LX
XXIII.
his
He
resumes
melancholy tragedy of
subjectof
Sampson
and
blindness
Agonistes*,where
person
in the
of
Sampson,
dreary void,
the
common
left in his
bosom,
a
by being
fine
"
debarred
or
of pleasures of
a
day,
the
milder
influence and
lunar
sky.
!
Ossian
patheticpoet
strain
"
"
ing participat-
in the of
of O
poetry, the
heart.
the shield of my
;
thy
"
beams
sun,
whence forth in
thy thy
in
? everlasting light
Thou the
contest stars
beauty, and
hide
and
themselves
sky!
the
wave.
moon,
"
cold But
pale,sinks thyselfmovest
of
western
thou
alone ; who
"
can
be the
companion
thy course
the the
tains moun-
The
oaks
of
the
mountains
fall ;
years
;
themselves
decay with
ocean
sinks and
grows
again;
*
the
moon
itself is lost
L. 67"591.
94
world.
that
"
'The
flower-de-lis of France
a rose
was
lily,
of
England
; and
while the
coronets
marquisesare
those
of
composed
dukes
are
of
points
flowers, and
of
the floral,
decorations principal
of honour
we are
the
higherdescriptions
crescents.
a
"
and stars,eagles
a
When
to
would
welcome
and
hero
or
monarch scattered
his
home, boughs
flowers
of
our
are
in his
path:
"
and
many
an
ancient
festivals were
women men
celebrated under
nosegays
with
in their
young
with
LXXXV.
there Picardy, useful highly
"
In
Salencj,a
an
small
in village
a
and interesting
"
and
custom.
"
It is called the
a
Festival of the
year,
"
On
certain
day
of
every
the
young
a
women
of the
assemble. village
After
solemn
woman,
young
most
gives the
decorated
an
affecting proofs of
generalinnocence
and
a
with
object
a
of
prideto
family.
"
This
crown
is
hat,
the
covered
with
It
constitutes frequently
whole
far
are
teemed es-
from
unfrequent,in which
the
most
honourable
"
recommendation
was
to:
wealthysuitor.
Medard,
This
custom
instituted
:
"
by-
St.
in the
fifteenth century
the and village,
He
was
sole
of proprietor
winner
of
the
prize. To original
of
the
observed
and preparation
that solemnity,
primary institution,
The
nature
ancient
indicated mycologists
by their transformations."to
Hyacinthuswas
a
fabled
have
been
turned
into
violet ;
Phaeton's
a
sisters into
"
and poplars,
not
un-
Daphne
into
laurel. their
"
Countries,too,
names
derived frequently
from
the
a
liarity pecu-
of their scenery;
and
single
Department
its
from
in all
France, that
rivers and
acquire
or
from appellation
some
mountains,
feature distinguishing
"
country.
The
ancient
Britons
*
appear
27.
to
have
excelled
Note
96
all other nations in the which and
to
build
names
their towns
were
the
adapted
their relative
some
situations.
"
This
circumstance, in
an
degree,
serves
to
corroborate
them,
that
;
they
for it the
were
Phenicia
undoubtedlyaffords
that similarity,
once
curious subsisted
indication of
between ancient
Hebrews.
of
"
Bethany stood
and
grew from
profusion. Luz
among
called
being
;
extensive groves
of almonds the
and
Moses
city of palms
its
of from
town
from palm-trees,
and
plainbeing
derived in vines ;
fertile in
balsams
" .
Saron
its name
vale
being abundant
the the
Nairn, a
its
Galilee,from
and
of agreeableness
situation;
cityof Allon-Moreh,
in
Samaria, from
Dcuter.
ch.
ch. xxxiv.
i.
v.
v.
3.
Chronicl.
of
II.
v.
Judges,
so
10.
"
The
Mecca,
now
much
a
cultivated
balsam
is city, Zakkoun.
totallysuperseded
by
speciesof
c.
f".
St. Jerome
were
calls
an
"
largeforests
of
LXXXVII.
same
In the Welch
after language,
the
manner,
a
in
vale of
which
the
is
stupendous,means
"
the
confluence
of
Aber-Honddy, and
towns
so
are called,
of the
the
Conway.
of
The
name
of
Bala,
in the county of
at
Merioneth, proves
a
it to be
situated
on
the outlet
of
lake:
"
Moel-y-Don,
the
"
the
banks
the
Menai,
name
means
Town
near
of the Waters
;" the
of the
of
PenmacJmo,
it to be
a
proves
at village
Machno;
from
same manner
a
while
Llan-rhaiadr
near
derives jtsappellative
a
beingsituated
as
in fountain,
the
from
clear and
name
LX
we
XXVIII.
the
n. names
Much
of
after the
men H
same
manner,
"
may
trace
vol.
and
women.
Barbara
98
the barberry-tree berberis, ; Rosa from
from rose;
a
the
Laura*
from
the
grove;
Rosamond,
;
from
mundi,
a
the flower
;
;
Agnes, from
cotton-weed
agnus,
lamb
lissa MeAu-
Greek
a
Margaret, a pearl;
herb; Deborah
roe;
a Phillis,
green
is Hebrew
for
a
bee; Dorcas, a
leaf; Rachel,
Galatea
a
sheep;
and
Susannah, a lily.
"
is milk ;
Cynthia,the
field
moon
Jacintha,
of
hyacinth ; Saccharissa, a
a
peculiar kind
and
honey; Alih"a,
of engraft
a
mallow;
Jesse,an
tree.
"
LXXXIX.
derivations
:
"
The
names
of
men
a
have
similar
Valentine
means
strong bay-tree;
Otho,
an
herb, whose
leaves
are
full of holes
sun
Neanthes,in Greek,
flowers
from the Greek
as
Alcibiades
alcibion, an
to
herb, which
a
operates
"
an
antidote
the bite of
serpent.
Note
28.
99
-
But
from
if the
men
have
derived
many
of their
names
smaller the
creations of nature,
they have
returned
of the
greatest and
"
wisest of their
heroes,and kings,
statesmen.
XC.
And while
here,my
You of frown
tience, paof
I lead you !
"
through the
and
deserts
etymology.
"
not
so
barren
to
as entertainment,
inclined often
suppose; heard
neither
you your
can
forgethow
all the
most
I have
with ridicule,
point and
poison of
the
wit, one
of
the
orators distinguished
beingtotally
he
ignorantof
uses.
"
etymologyof
word single
are
Latin
forest,and
from from
from
"
fountain
;
from
the
French; lawn
;
dale from
garden
Welch;
glen
from
Erse; alcove
while
stream, flood,sea,
spring, bower,
h2
and
wood,
are
100
from
the
Saxon.
"
Of
Trees,
poplar, peach,
French:
pine,alder,acacia,larch,and
the Latin
:
"
cypress,
from
the
birch, box,
mulberry,
Saxon:
from
"
lime,
from
and
ivy, are
Gothic;
from fir,
tree
from
the
thorn,
the and of
horn-beam,
the
the the
Dutch; willow
Welch;
from
while
general name
"
is derived
Of
those
to
embellish
such of
as
bridge,
are
church,
Of the
them
the
to
Saxon. adorn
"
colours, which
tribute con-
all those
and
yellow,are
and with
Saxon
purple,French
"
indigo,
Latin;
to
green,
And the
it is curious fathers
of
our
observe
language selected
we
the various
tongues, when
these
we
that,of perceive,
the
synonymies of
and
jects obtrace
combined,
to
scenery
prospect
the
the
Latin, landscapeto
"
Dutch,
and
view
to
the French*.
Note
29.
102
almost
every
"
object of
nature
from
discordant
tongues !
XCII.
If from of
men,
individuals
we
we
ascend
to
munities com-
love
of mankind
"
for the
may be
of pleasures traced
It
in hamlets
"
;
a
in towns in any
and
of
in cities. the
There
is
of
scarcely Europe,
with
rows
square,
not
largercities plotsof
that is
beds
embellished
with
green;
of
flowers ; with
and
shrubberies,or
with
of chesnut
lime trees,
In
innate
passion of
the
people
of
consisted celebrated
near
of
the
numerous
merits
the
path foot-
Kyrle." There
the town
was
scarcelya
of
Ross,
one
so
as situated, finely
it
on is,
cliff above
that
was
of the noblest
some
windings
or
of the
Wye,
not, in
way
other,
embellished
by
that benevolent
character.
"
Who
hung with
the to
woods who
yon
mountain's
the
waters
sultry brow
flow ?
"
From
Not Or
dry rock,
skies
bade
the
in useless
columns
tost,
in
proud
falls
magnificently lost,
103
But
clear and
to the
the
swain."
causeway
seats
parts the
vale
with
shady
?
"
rows
traveller
repose
taught
Man
heaven-directed
spire to
rise ?
"
The
Ross,"
each
lispingbalie replies.
Cesar, animated
Roman
a
by
desire of
them
the pleasing
people, bequeathedto
In the
his
gardens;
his
after honoured
memory*.
crowds
to
present day,
oaks
they
resort
"
in
the green
of the
Borghese villa.
of Smyrna city
XCIII. in Asia
and the
The
walks,around
are
the
Minor,
on agreeable; particularly
the
west
side of
and
Frank, where
trees
there
are
groves
of orange
lemon
with
leaves,
at
of the
senses
time.
of the
to
"
public promenade,
at
as
on
the
banks
Neva,
as
St.
Petersburg, is
in the
are
sented repreAt
be
fine
any
world."
Berlin
are
the
squares,
which
are
the most
elegant,
and
trees ;
those,in which
entire
plantedshrubs
the
cityis
surrounded
by gardens,while
Note
30.
104
that
of
Vienna, whose
and dirty
narrow
streets
is encircled by a wide inspire nothingbut disgust, and beautiful appearance, field, having a singular
and such
as no
other
can capital
boast.
"
All the
the
most
ramparts in winter,but
summer.
"
among
"
XCIV.
the in
terrace
Nothing can
or
be
more
than agreeable,
Belvidere
of the
as
castle of Beziers
are
France, commanding,
the and the
we
told, a
most
enchanting prospect
to
town
adjacent
runs
valley, (throughwhich
each and side, with
the
ing form-
an
vineyards fields,
olives.
"
The
of
of capital
the
Duke
Burgundy, has
and without studded with
most
lightful de-
walks,both
the streets and the
of
within
are
the town:
trees
Dantzic
;
"
inhabitants of
of
in France, cities,
"
are
embellished
with
public
and the
walks.
Those
on
at
the banks
at
the
Garonne
promenade
Aix,
in
Provence, called
the Orti-
105
are belle,
"
as represented
The de
terrace, too,
latterenjoys
from the
noble
a
domestic clear
while landscape,
may be
seen
former, on
the
west
waters
day,
to
the east
to
frontiers of
the
Italy ;
the
Pyrenees; to
south,the magnificent
sea!
"
of the Mediterranean
But
of all the
of
publicwalks
is said Parks
to
in
Europe,
the
Palermo
"
possess
greatestadvantages. The
the Prado have
at
of
Westminster,
of The
Madrid,
the
Paris,
rina," Ma-
nothingto
drive at
"
compare
Balsamo from
*, "
is the fashionable
wards toFelice,
Palermo
of
the Garden
Flora, to
all the
bility, no-
gentry,
"It is
a
and
resort carriages
every
evening.
centre
magnificentesplanade,in
a
the
of
which
hours
is
band
of
"
music,
which
after
sun-set.
a
It extends
of fine
in front of
among
range
are
races, ter-
which
those of
Prince
of
State of
Vaughan, Sicily.
p. 11.
106
Butera, and
from
the
English
ambassador. of
"
Viewed
course con-
of and
the people,
harbour of
shipping,
the
several
Englishmen
and
right,
mountains
of the
Bagaria ;
of Monte
the
abrupt rock
with
fringedat Pellegrino,
and
its base
fine
woods,
the
superb
seat
of Prince
Belmonte, form,
a coup altogether,
(Tail
any
walk public
in
Europe."-"
evinced also,
XCVI.
by several
founders
in cities,
the
was
disposition
an
Babylon
exact
circle ; while
celebrated Cesaria,
erected
for itsport
and of
an
marble
was buildings*,
"
in the form
in
"
amphitheatre. Two
were
the world
those
of ancient Alexandria.
can
Nothing
them. feet the
"
in modern
Europe
streets
compare
two
with
One
of these
was
thousand
Canopus, to
the
sea:
"
the
of other,
intersected breadth,
it.
"
The
where place,
they
xx.
c.
13.
107
crossed
each
other, formed
were seen
square,
from
the
middle
of which
the two
gates, and
and
the north
These
streets
were
decorated
with with
mansions, formed
of marble
and
porphyry ;
"
temples, obelisks,and
on cityof Taidu, rising
vince pro-
of
Kathay, seems
Babylon.
"
in
It
was
to have
resembled
erected
by the great
inhabitants
The
mode
Khan
from of of
of the
Tartary,and
suppliedwith
Cambalu. is city,
"
oppositecityof
adopted building,
in this
"
not
unworthy
European attention^.
of
a
Breda
is built in the
a
form
triangle ; Bourdeaux
forms
in that of the
bow,
"
of
which
standingbetween
the Sea of
"
and
Marmora, rises in
trigon :
a
of the houses
have
on
view
of the have
a
sea, while of
those,situated
other
mean,
:
"
the
north,
are
view
the
but
the streets
narrow,
contrast
filthyand
to
forming a
of
lamentable
the
the
splendour
"
the
mosques,
palacesand caravanseries.
Note
31,
f Note
32.
lOS
XCVII.
for
Though
even
of
cities, a regard
not
beauty or
has
been
us
almost
induce
accident,
which
rather
design*,
credit
"
some,
the
taste
and
public
While, therefore,we
of
the
the which
can
cityof Lisbon,
are
the
many
magnificentviews,
of its parts, who
exhibited
without reflect,
on
of feelings
indignationand
and
wantonness
contempt,
of
the could
wickedness
which folly,
prompt
as
Peter
a
of
Russia, so
far to
outrage nature,
fens and in the
to
raise
mighty cityupon
the lake
in piles,
swamps,
men,
Isthmus,
Ladoga
and
the
gulph
of Finland?
XCVII1.
of
was
The
Hebrews
were
remarkablyproud
in the
their
cities.
"
Engeddi,
by
Eusebius
"
seated
deserts,
and
celebrated
for its
for its
balm,
by
Solomon
"
vineyards f.
God
;
"
David
the
City of
the mountain
Note
33.
f Song
of
Solomon,
ch.
i.
v.
14.
"r.
110
G.
was
ancient
Ptolemais,
"
now
called
Acra,
east
finelysituated, having, on
north, a rich and
extended
the
and
the
Mount
watered
by
the view
on Nantes, standing
a
of all the
adjacent country
with small
miles
round,
while
sweeps
decorated
of
in which islands,
"
gardensand
was
summer-houses.
The
scite of
Calcutta India
by
he
an
Company,
that
was
with
large umbrageous
on
the spot,
which
"
great and
magnificent citynow
stands
stands.
The
cityof Valencia
in
"
one
of
the most
Spain*.
from
Brussels
rises on
and hill,
the ramparts
;
overlooks ancient
of of
rich and
luxuriant country
the
a
while
the
Palmyra,
in
"
richest and
vast
proudest city
tary soli-
devoid desert,totally
one,
two
possessionof only
Ramah
was
fountain +.
and hills,
to
built
on
high
of
the appearance
Note
34.
f Note
35.
J 11
two
cities. Seville is so
"
the
Andalusians
who have
*
"
do
not
seen
hesitate
say,
seen
that
those,
never
it,have
built upon
Genoa,
held when bean wearingso captivating appearance, in its gulph,loses, however, by shipssailing much the of
its
beauty on
of
nearer
approach, from
circumstance
It
its
a possessing scarcely
tree." single
without
faith,sea
which
sea or
without
has
soever
a
fish,and
fine an*
trees:'" Barcelona
way
it is approached
by
by land." Toledo
the
streets
riages car-
enjoysa
are
most
romantic narrow,
mean
are
and
seen
in them."
The
immediate country
round
the
as
of Bassora city
one
is represented in delightful
by
the
Arabs
of the most
all Asia:
"beyond
this
the deserts of
concave
was
erected
in
on valley, on a
sus, seated
had declivity,
fertilevale, watered
"
Quien
ha
no
ha
visto
Sevilla,
No
visto maravilla.""
112
in
so
many
and graceful
Turks
have
"
Meandres.
lake and
a
Alba
was
situated between
borders
large
being
mountain, the
on
of the lake
surrounded
three sides
by deep
forests.
"
CI.
Corinth
as
having two
a
havens, part
sea,
of the
as
cityhad
fine
of
view the
of the Ionian
"
the in
a
Egean.
was
Jezreel stood
the favourite the
retreat
of
once
kingsof
it is
Israel.
"
as Delightful
valley
used
was,
an
now
only as
"
occasional
was
so
for
Arabian
herds! shep-
Baia
Roman
vied nobility
its upon
with
other, in erecting
croached emulation,enocean
villas upon
cliffs, and, in
the borders
of this
their
of the
once
*.
"
The
present condition
thus described
celebrated
"
spot is
by Thomson.
There Her No
Baiae banks
sees
no
more
the
joyous throng,
all
beaming
now
with
bask
the
pride of
the
Rome:
generous
vines
the
along
hills,
main
: :
Where With
sport
baths
breezes
of the
Tyrrhene
no
and
temples mixt,
villas rise
Note
36.
113
\or Draw
amid
reluctant of the
waveg,
.
murmurs
breathing deep
arms
No
No
From An A
their sacred
extend
the
calm total
Part Liberty."
1. /.291
in an sive extenAvignon though standing elevated plain,commands, from its more a finely variegated points, country ; the Rhone its fertile ing course meadows, aboundrolling through
CII.
in
while olives,
"
studded
as
with
calls
vineyards. Tibur
now it,
the
Proud,"
so
Virgil
called
had Tivoli,
many
scenerial
that Julius Cesar, Caius Casaccompaniments, sius, Augustus, Lepidus, Catullus, Propertius, had countryand many of the Roman nobility houses and there.
"
Adrian
erected
*
beautiful
villa,
Palmyrean
there
there
ended
days;
and
Horace months
accustomed
"
in the year.
Agrigentum was
for the Abate
culiarly pe-
comfort,
Bal-
High rocks, as
*
Note
1
37.
VOL.
IT.
114
samo
informs
us,
screened
it from
the
north
hills pleasant
on
sheltered
the
inhabitants
impedingthe
to
circulation of
air ; before
broad
by the
breezes,
Agragas, gave
and the and
to
a
admittance
noble
element
the
river,
plainwas
"
lined with
and
populous
suburbs."
CIII.
two
are
Morocco
of
stands
in
formed valley,
by
ranges
its environs
and
olives
of the
states
of
good
:
"
for such
nerate degein
stant con-
the fieldsare
trees
always in leaf,
sort
or
other
alwaysin
a
som. blos-
The
of
is city
an
built
on
the side of
in hill, the
the
form
terraces, regular
almost
every
house
full and
distinct view
on
ol
the Mediterranean in
common
hilh,
all the
"
the contrary, in
with
a
almost
towns
Flanders,
is situated in
dead
flat :
so
also is Amsterdam,.
115
with Petersburg, a marshy soil and an unhealthy atmosphere. The is from view, it exhibits, onlypicturesque of art.' Nature the Pont Neuf; but it is a picture displays nothing. Copenhagenhas littleof built upon
of wood, piles
" " "
like St.
but beauty,
;
the
gardens of
the
the
palace of
berg Rosen-
while
in nothing
of
Elsineur
those of
the
which
been
father of
:
"
reported to
have
murdered
sleepingin
My
custom
my
orchard,
afternoon,
uncle
always
secure
in the
Upon
With
And
my
hour cursed
thine hebenon
stole,
a
juice of
in the
in
ears
phial,
porches
of mine
did pour
The
leperous distilment.
Hamlet,
Act
x.
Sc. 5.
Madrid
stands in
a
in
an
extensive
"
plain; singular
different
Cairo*
sandy one:
the
from
most
the top of
castle, however,
in all
finest and
view
Cairo,
so
have
seen
London,
the
most
Paris, and
Edinburg,
under
is esteemed the
by
of !"
the
natives, "
magnificent spot
and city, the
canopy
world
1
mother
of the
116
aspects of which,
the year,
are
at
as
the two
no
oppositeseasons
can city
of
"
such
other the
boast*.
was,
most
as
before Seringapatam,
are
conquest,
we
informed
tiful beau-
princein
India.
it by the
Englishand
the
Mahratta
Sultan, and
became
island,in which
and
they
"
were
tuated, si-
bare
desolate !
CV.
has fame
The
lovelycountry,
a
in which
Spa stands,
the
waters
and
while
Palermo,
surnamed
called the happy, and frequently is a Golden Valley,and the Garden of Sicily, Aixt the completeschool of landscapein itself,
of Provence, stretches itself in capital provincial with environs, beautiful valley, a retired and romantic
beyond
commercial
in
! Aleppo, the most imagination of the west of Asia, and yielding city
"
populationonly to Smyrna,
stands in
a
Cairo
and
can
stantinopl Conbe of
seen
vast
and plain,
"
from
an
immense of this
distance.
From the
one
the
domes
are city
observed
snowy
sum-
raits of the
the
moun-
Vid.
Rollin.
US
"
Lux
each
et
Decus
Ausonia."
seven
"
Rome
and
Lisbon,
"
are
hills. adjoining
The three
former
itselfalong the
the
sea
Tiber, about
;
"
from leagues
of
Tuscany
of the
the
refreshed latter,
by
with
the breezes
an
Tagus
and
the Atlantic,
one
admirable
climate,commands
in all
Europe.
"
These
two
the natural
a
their
shade
streets, present
and
continual
sunshine.
"
CVII.
Few than
cities are
the
more
approach,
entrance
a
though village,
many
equal to
cities in Europe
and
esting uninter-
succession
the
of
similar
objects
much
always before
Maison-deadmiration
to
the eye,
Bois, strike
and
every
with
as
as pleasure,
Buena
Vista^ affords
the
who navigator,
has
long had
This
nothingbut
also called
Josephus, Antiq.
the the
Lib.
xx.
"
village was
Diospolis,in
f
the One of
present day
LoudcL
Cape
de Yerd it
islands.
wears
"
It is
so
called
sea
from
delightful appearance,
"
to
ships at
"
Buena
Vis'.a meaning
good prospect.
clouds
and
water
to
Who
can
directed
destroying all
to
gardens
the ?
"
and
villas of the
still
beach, in order
more
render
cityof Cadiz
difficult of blind
approach
where
senses
Disagreeable sands
and
now
the eye,
gardens
;
shrubberies
was
once
delightedthe
and
so
extensive remains
this
tree
in the
whole
CVIII.
one
Lima,
the
stands
ing abound-
in
of the finest
plainsin
and
"
in orange
trees
and citrons,
well
watered
by rivers and
rivulets.
Florence
of every
rises in
plain,covered
It derives
"
with
name
trees
description.
"
its
from
the the
beauty
of
Parma,
watered
by
the
Po, lies, as
and
describes,between
below
and
Alps
the
and
Apennines,
the thunders the inhabitants
the
torrents
cascades of the
while
of Sion
in the Valover
lois, with
gates
a
pardonable vanity,inscribe
of
a
their
perverted meaning
passage of
"
in
ture, scripcity
intimatingthe
over
superiorbeauty
of
their The
those
of the
rest
the
world
"
Lord
120
loveth
Sion,
Than
more
than
Lausanne, Europe
than Vaud
is so
abounding
charm German
some
in
every is
comfort
of
,
and life,
a
every
of scenery
Heidelberg*that
a
celebrated
"
exclaims,in unhappy
man
vein of
enthusiasm,
he
were
to
ask, where
ought
an
to
in order, live,
from
sorrow,
were some
now
and
then, to steal
"
hour
"
I would
tell him
Heidelberg;"
to
and which
crown
happy being
he
desirous
learn,
to
place
every
ought
of
to
choose, in
fresh
order
joy
"
life with
I garlands,
would
tell him
Heidelberg."
is almost concealed entirely the
CIX.
Friburg
by its hills:
it bursts
on unexpectedly
sight,
hanging on
The
banks
a
shaded precipices,
with variegated
public walks
of
a
Basle
with
a
extend
along
command meadows of
the
arched river,
over
trees, and
noble
prospect
"
long tract
and
fields.
At
Berne
is one
About
four
leagues
from
Mi""fieim.
121
nudes
in all the of
a
world
"
while
Zurich,the
pital ca-
havingevery
banks of
noble and
Berne is
a
lake. expansive
"
The
lic publime
:
walk
at
terrace
with planted
trees, in the
from beneath
most
en-
rich chantingly
enormous even masses
by
and
of the
mountains, covered,
in summer,
with
perpetual snow,
beneath.
masses
"
"
contrasted by finely
and eye,
meadows,
on near
The
surveyingthe
this the
of the
Alps
"
canton,"says Mons.
of
to
Zimmermann,
vast
one piled
upon
and
chain uninterrupted
rearing
to
their
heart
skies, conveys
the the
rapturous
soft and
delight! While
of
around renders
"
impression,
it is sublime.
can,
on
as agreeable, no
On
heart feeling
close
view, behold
without
The mind
wall of rocks prodigious experiencing trembling. involuntary with affright their eternal contemplates
"
snows,
the
themselves precipitate
from their
with deafening
fragments of rock,
torn
which
my
time
tempests have
continues I firstclimbed upon these
away.
"
How
heart
thrilled,"
"
this
when
track
sublime
new
deserts,discovering, every
over rising
step I made,
while in
a
mountains
my
head,
me
upon
death menaced !
"
thousand
shapes below
in the midst reflect upon
power,
But
the
you
tion imaginaperceive
immediatelykindles,when
alone yourself
of of
this
grand scene
nature, and
these
and
weakness
of human
Such
and
are
contemplatingthe
Berne.
"
scenery
CX.
But
of
all
the cities,
most
one singular
is Moscow itself ; which, though seated in an tectural for archiextensive plain, affords greater variety in Europe, or than any other city design, perhaps in the world. Dr. Clarke's description and ^picturesque. of it is highlyanimated
in
"
"
"
Moscow
is,in
every
; as respect, extraordinary
123
well in
;
as disappointing
in
in
causingwonder
"
and
regret.
Numerous
gold, amidst
appear several versts
we
burnished
domes of
paintedpalaces, plainfor
and you
open
reach
entered.
"
Having passed,you
is become
of the
wonder
are
what
are
or city,
; and
?
"
They
this is
a
Moscow;"
and
"
and
you
behold
but nothing
wide
ed scatter-
brick walls, suburb, huts,, gardens,pigsties, timber yards, churches, dunghills, houses, warepalaces,
and
to
a
refuse,as it were,
an
of
ficient sufmaterials,
towns
stock
empire with
"
miserable
and
miserable
states
One villages.
might imagineall
sent
a
the
of
Europe
of
and
Asia had
ing build-
by
under
way
this
deputiesfrom
timber
huts
all
mark, Den-
white-washed
from
since
arrival;
from Bu-
painted walls
the
Tyrol;
Constantinople;
charia;
Tartar
temples from
; dungeons,
China
from
Spain
prisons,
124
and
architectural trellissesfrom
ruins from
Rome;
and
terraces
and
Naples;
CXI.
the
warehouses
from
Wapping*."
LONDON
is
"
admirablysituated
The
most
for
purposes
of trade.
picturesque Hampstead
park on is,of
are
are city
from
the
Highgate hills on
the
the
south,and
"
from
Greenwich
south-east.
The
last of
views
There
kind,the
scenes
other
in nature, far
to
beautiful and
sublime,
the
but landscape;
it is impossible to
by man,
are
so
of
merable innuHere and transporting. powerful evidences bear witness to the astonishing
" "
powers
of
to
man, prove
and the
operate,
as
so
many
ments, argu"
other scenes,
to
it is the
us;
in
Man. has
"
All the
that wealth,
of industry
to
nations
gathered
us;
"
seems together,
be
extended
before
"v
and
1813.
126
Nile, erected
after founded
the first
soon
eightothers
bais: while
"
forty years
desert*; Syrian
Simeon
a
the Stylites,
celebrated in
shepherd,on
either
of
moved height,un-
by
or
the cold
"
lived winter,
His
and followers,
seats
uncultivated
"
the
sterile wildernesses.
taste
In
time,
however, the
and the
for
natural beauty
improved,
other
founders
of
remarkable
for
selecting
situations delightful
for the
theatres of
established themselves,
in the the
they were
art
far from
being deficient
of
improving the
chosen.
natural
advantages of
CXIII.
one
The
constituted
They
barred de-
themselves
from
possessing property ;
Vid.
torn.
i. 241. Patrum.
+ Vid.
in Vit
ifb. ix.
851.
127
they never
themselves
tasted
to
animal
manual
or
labour;
constantly
continued
to
engaged in
in
the
oral
mental
from
of vespers
"
portion
of the
use
succeedingday.
of meat,
was,
The
some
in
degree,mitigatedby
Pius ; in consequence
this regulations, the
names
the of
popes
Eugenius
and into the
a
and
which,
few
other under
order
divided and
two,
of
"
the The
moderate
Carmelites.
two
Benedictines
and
two
they never
the
seven
conversed
same
dormitory; performed
in
a
times of six.
"
day ;
had
and but
They
slight coveringto
their
beds ;
in slept of
"
their
and clothes;
two
wardrobe and
a
consisted
only
The
coats,
two
cowls,
were
handkerchief.
Dominicans
as
the
most
infamous, as well
the
most
celebrated
"
and
powerfulof
all the
monastic secular
orders.
there interests,
not not
not
a
crime,of which
to
they
were
nor guilty,
meanness,
to
which
their
stoop, in order
augment
"
12S
never hypocrisy,
ceased
to
persecute, under
the
cause
the assumed
"
motives
of
religion.The
Franciscans
they
were
indulthe
gencies. These
meek of spirit
orders, much
as
they belied
as
their
Master, base
common
many
of their
followers
the
became, in
with
the
chins, Capu-
the
most to
seldom Cordeliers,
beautiful
erect
"
failed
to
and
turesqu pic-
spots,
on
which
their
teries, monas-
convents, and
not neglected
to
use
hermitages. In Italythey
their of privilege
selection.
"
Almost
every
was
that
country,
*.
CXIV.
The
abbey
of Vallombrosa
was
erected
by
Florentine
in vale,
the
Apennines, forsook
a
the
to celebrity
spot, tillthat
silence
"
known period
for the
profound
f.
and
town
that solitude, of
its woods
The
which Salerno,
Note
39. MTWon
f Vallombrosa
means
shady vale.
cpmpares
tin-
129 full of
stands houses.
"
most
"
was delightfully,
religious
house,
"
"
To
whom,"
whom
Dupaty,
situated monks." monks."
"
"to
does
on
hill, belong?"
the
at
"
" "
To
"And
"
that the To
on one
"To declivity?"
the The
are
"
And
"
"
foot
monks
ten
of
yon then
eminence?"
possess
monks."
"
all Salerno?"
There
convents;
five
a
parishes ; one
"
two bishoprick,
are
so
and seminaries,
convents
chapter.
that
There
many
a
town,
there
is
not
siugle shipin
CXV.
To
love
owe
of
scenery
of origin
and
retirement
"
the
their order.
were
earlyin
many
one
the naval
After profession.
"
which
occupiedas
to
many
years,
the
from
Genoa
return to
his
brother, at Marseilles,
town.
"
solicit his
no answer
to
his native
his affectionate
he letter,
to enquireinto journey
the motives
of
brother's
silence.
"
"
am
weary
commerce
number brosa
of fallen
spiritsto
autumn.
the
leaves,
that
fall in
"
Vallom-
during
H.
the
VOL.
130
and
said navigation,"
my
his
brother,"
the mercy
I will of the
no
longer trust
"
to safety
ments. ele-
I have
the borders
dise, of Para-
where of my
am
spend
the remainder
days in
peace,
where
my
to
death."
Upon
his
him
to
embosomed
wood,
whence
issued
tude multi-
charms
of the
surrounding
culated cal-
example
his
brother,and havingsold
the order of Carthusians, up
to
themselves
meditation
and
devotion*.
CXVI.
of and than
To
say
of nothing
on
the
Germany,
the
situated who
the banks
Danube,
could exhibit
finer taste,
at
the founders
of the Carmelite
of the monastery
convent
the
or Battuecas-j-,
and
a
hermitages
sequestered picturesque
"
the
one
situated in
on
the
others
the
most
Vid.
**
f Note
40
131
elevation in all
Spain:
"
than
the founders
of the
Capuchin
convents
at
Scicli and
Chiaramonte, in
of Cordeliers
the island of
at
than Sicily?"
Werstenlein, and
?
"
hermitage of
on
des
Croix
in Switzerland
or
of those
the eminences,
Angers
Than
the
situation of
be
more
the
monastery,
"
near
Albano, nothingcan
in the
admirable.
this
so
ing Walk-
garden, belonging to
Baroness
religious
there
pression ex-
house, the
at
Stolberg was
sublime her
scene,
astonished
the
beautiful and
which
voice
admiration,and
continued
CXVII.
No could
than selected,
of
the
one,
on
which
stood
the
abbey
Basingwerk,
fine view hills of found the
be
rising among
of
having a
the
Lancashire.
a more site,
religious contemplation,
the ruins of
than
that, where
stand
k
Netley
132
by wood,
on
the shore*
of the
Southampton
water.
The
inhabited
by
societyof
in
a
of
Augustine,stands
rocks,
on
fertile
vale, beneath
which
Goodrich
"
proudly elevates
Cistercian
pointedfragments.
bosomed the spot, which residence
of
The
a
abbey
of
Whitland,
near
in
was
stood sequesteredvalley,
once
the
favourite the
summer
the
greatest,because
tish
monarchs,
of
"
Howel
"
Dha, abbey
of
the Solon
of
Wales.
The
Cym-Hir,
Rhaidr-guy in
were,
at
the county
a
Radnor, sleeps, as
it
the foot of
by
form
the
Clewedog,
which
a
high
and
mountains
themselves
into
grand
noble
theatre. amphi-
CXVIII.
more
No
spot could
in admirable stood
have
been
selected,
abounding
that,on
a
accompaniments,
once priory,
than
which
the small
belongingto commanding
of the Snowdon
view magnificent
of the
north
end
chain,and
an
admirable
prospect
134
CXIX.
beautiful
As
and
so
most
numents, mo-
all our
one
Gothic
of
more
situation
"
the
most
ing aboundexcites
which
mingled
content,
and religion,
"
Colonna
has
never
wandered
the
this venerable
a
he has wished
never
himself
upon
he landscapepainter;
has
sat
its
broken
columns,
its
and
beheld
and
he
its mutilated
ments, frag-
waving
of forsake
arches
with
festoons
ivy,but
the
to entirely
world,
of
give himself
"
up
man,
to
the
my
quietstudies
Lelius,too
emotions?
too not.
philosophy. Is
Is there
there
ful, power-
for
too
these
one
too
rant, igno-
presumptuous
"
to
indulge
them?
"
him
not
From
one
him
the the
of pillars
massacre
Palmyra
of
no
draw
sigh ;
Glencoe,
tear!
"
the
you
would
my
elicit
"
Know
"
man,
no
friend?
shun with
him him.
"
despise
He
erect
have
intercourse blood
to
would
squander the
of the
or villager,
altars of sacrifice
the
cious avari-
135
CXX.
In the year
****,
gentlemanof familyof
land Hol-
sought permissionof
the
the De
erect
small
hermitage,at
"
DronHe had
the
cityof Copenhagen.
of his country ; he had
court
mingled
he
was
; he
was
rich,and
honoured.
"
"
One
all his
piness. hap-
He
married!
his
ambition, he
life.
"
became
and
disgusted
he
was
with
Travellinginto
the
Denmark,
beauties
with captivated
and ningaard, in
"
romantic
of Drona
obtained
to permission
a
erect
cell
small
was
few of
pines.
birch his the
Tt
"
and
the
bark
trees.
from
own
this
cell,he dug
and
on
dormitory with
designedfor
THE
hands,
engraven
caused
a
epitaphto following
his
be
stone, he
monument.
HERMIT'S
EPITAPH*.
scenes
Here
may
at
he
of life.
strife,
Enjoy'd
The And
Dronningaard splendour
ardour of
hermit's
a
court
he
knew,
of the
tented
not
field,
untrue,
Soft And
passion'sidler charm,
less
can
yield.
"
Translated
by
William
Hayley, Esq.
136
He
thy
chaster
mere
sweet
;
"
"
Thy
To
deceit
fane, by
he
Reason
led,
of
He
deem'd
ever
path
bliss;
bred,
Oh
!
Its
mourn'd
was
mistake
interest
dupe
plung'd
offered
in
misery's abyss
"
But Her
Friendship
him, benignant
darkest
power, hour.
"
cheering hand,
this shaded
the
in trouble's
Beside Bade
stream,
her
soothing voice
disconsolate
in his heart
content
no
so
again rejoice:
Peace The
calm
revives, serenelysweet;
sought for
as
his
choice,
"
Quits him
more
in this beloved
retreat.
In for
the
enthusiast
resided
The of
a
Stadholder,however,
war,
"
being upon
and
to
wrote
him
not
letter,
desired
He
did
hesitate
obey
the
On
the
previousto evening,
farewell address
so
his
departure, he
spot, in which
and
content.
Dronningaard,by writinga
the he
"
had
enjoyed
repose reached
The
Denmark,
after
departure of
he
of
unfortunate covered
"
recluse, was,
that
had
fallen,
with
a
glory,at
to
his
regiment!
Danish hermit-
As
testimony
erected in
a
virtues,his
his adjoining
friends
grove,
age,
marble, on
to
which
was
scribed in-
the
of landscapes
CXXI.
never
Scenery,among
fails
to
increase the
one
is
entertained by every
Inhabitants extended of wild
and
desolate
of heaths,of plains,
moors,
transport themselves
the
distant
and
of regions
globe, and
moors,
the
with
These exalt to
ciations asso-
that
wild and
animates
a
the mountaineer
at valley,
tered seques-
mention,or
of their
their mountains.
of
Hence
we
Wales,
of
Scotland
and
been, in
for
an
every
period of
not
their
remarkable history,
their native country,
attachment,
onlyto
Vid. Totlr
round
the
Baltic, p.
248.
138
is so
no
country,
with
even
if it were
sert, de-
is remembered
"
pleasure, provided
God
ployed em-
own.
The
forming the
on
of the
globe!
"
The
Maltese, insulated
island by the while
of appellation the
a
the Flower
World;"
and he
Greenlander, wild
stupidas
is,has
sovereign contempt
esteem
themselves
!
"
alone
the
of
man
The
Mandingoes
most
of Africa consider
their
the province
the
happiestpeople
of
Norwegians, proud
upon and world Much their whatever
among
their barren
"
summits,
honourable, let
rocks
the whole
"
learn
more
the
of
Norway*."
a
pardonableis
he
"
the
prideof
Bay
litan, NeapoNaples,
when
and
" exclaims,
See the
of
dief!"
It is
remark ingenious
CXXII.
an
of
writer
Note
41.
Note
42.
139
upon is
Plato, that
remembrance
the of
golden age
a
nothing but
but
country,
affection.
all
over
abandoned,
"
still the
objectof
in life^
ceases
fond
The
African,torn
from
of social
never
clime far
to
ocean,
sigh for
the
shore,he
his affection
induces he will
return
his
and family,
"
tions.
Actuated board
some one
belief, a
Greenland
ceeding pro-
boy
on
way
the voyage,
to
seized with
snows.
"
his native
Animated
was
the he
sea
and
drowned,
should,
after
death,be conveyed
and the
arms
the haunts
of his
parents.
"
CXXIII.
The
PortugueseJews kingdom
called of
have
an
dent ar-
Portugal.
"
For
cessity ne-
by business
when
a
or
and countries,
settled far
of quantity
from
their dear
be
sent
Portugal,they order
over,
earth to
may be
that,when
they die,they
soil.
"
buried
in
their native
The
late
140
Lord
"
similar his
regard for
The
land. Scot-
house,in which
Lordshipresided,
"
at
Westminster,was
stone, the
built by himself.
and
"
earth,
all
the
timber
the
shrubs,were
stood
broughtfrom
resided in
Scotland.
So house
England, his
Scottish
ground !
"
Eraser
nativity.This officer,
"
who
was
in Sarratoga,
the memorable
was
pedition ex-
of General
to
Burgoyne,
so
warmly
tached at-
his native
Fort
two
miles
from
Augustus, in
his he fall,
be
of
Highlands,that,some
declared buried in
to
one
a
friend,
of
he
would
of the
rather
the
groves
Loch
Ness, than
in Westminster
CXXIV.
of commerce,
"
any
one
succeeded
or
in the world
a
the ocean,
in
distant
try? coun-
with
pleasuredoes
spend
the
"
he which
retire to have
never
his
native
been
remainder Are
we
of
his
miserable?
we
with
what
do melancholy delight
recal
we
to
mind
the few
short and
happy
moments,
have
142
of the most
teresti in-
in allLucan. of
"
to Replying
the
Cesar, Achoreus
which the
most
enumerates
the various
had philosophers
causes
of the overflow
to
Some
attributed them
the pressure
fountains ;
some
of
the
to
planet
valence pre-
Mercury
the waters
some
upon
the
the
of the Etesian
to
run
winds f
others conceived
of
from
the mountains
pia; Ethioof
water
soil;that
pores
the
sea
nuated insi-
through the
fed
of the earth ;
or
by
the
were
to
the ocean,
through the
of the Nile.
CXXVI.
These
were
the causes, of
a
diminution
of
to river,
which,
Sesostris
men.
"
and
What
Lib.
x.
"
Vid.
Diodorus
Siculus,Lib.
Orientale
i.
"
xi.
"
Consult
and
also Xie-
U'Herbelot's buhr
Bibliotheque
en
Art.
Nile,
Voyage
Arabie,
vi.
torn.
"
p. 100.
f Lucretius, Lib.
than
"n
1. 712.
Nothing
the
can
be
more
absurd,
this
these
opinion
winds
are
of
Lucretius, if
observations of"Plin\
xvin. c.
correct.
Vid. Lib.
28.
31.
143
monarchs, manicus,
so
with
Alexander*
so
and
Cesar
and
Ger?
at
countering en-
long and
innumerable
lengthaccomplishedby
Mr. Bruce stood
man! single
"
After
upon
considered
the
source
beyond the
of
the the
most
brated cele-
of
traveller, by
and der his
virtue of that
us lights
which association,
to
governs
all,reverted
"
"
the
of landscapes says
was
now,"
he, "
in possession
had,
my
for many
years, been
and
the
object of
ambition
the usual for
a
wishes;
which, from
nature,
of infirmity
human
at least follows,
had
the many
"
taken
place of
The
marsh
and
fountains, upon
of
our
comparison with
a
the rise of my in
became rivers,
in trifling object
sight. I
my
own
remembered
that
magnificentscene,
rivers I
country, where
rise in
one
the
Annan
not
three hill;
thought
to beauty; preferable
it in the cultivation of
those
countries, through
xx\.
"
Vid.
MaximusTyrius,
his journey
III. C. -i.
"
Dissert. Africa
to
xi.
Arrian
cause*.
and
Justin
rian, Ar-
attribute Lib.
into
other
c
Vid.
Justin, Lib.
11.
144
which
tbey flow
without
seen
violence
from
man
or
and
the
Rhine, Soane;
"
the I
more
of the
treat
a
began, in
source
my
sorrow,
to
the
about enquiry
the
of the
Nile, as
"
violent the
;
effort of
Such
were
traveller of this enterprising thoughtsand feelings the feelings, and natural consequence
a
of
our
tion, organizathe
in exhibiting, all
striking manner,
the
vanityof
of vanity
comparative
was
yet
the circumstanc
having succeeded
in the
object of
his adventurous
what
Thomson
described floods!"
"
the
progress
his
two
king of
From Pure Of
realm,
lake
welling out,
through
the
lucid
fair Damhea
the
rolls
his infant
stream.
There, by
His
Naiads
nurs'd,
the
he
sports
away
playfulyouth, amid
*
fragrant isles,
43.
Note
*"
145
That
with
unfading verdure
the manly
a
smile
around.
:
Ambitious, thence
And
river breaks
gathering many
all the
flood,and
treasures
copious fed
of the
With Winds
mellowed
sky,
in
devolves
his maze,
tracts solitary
Of life-deserted The
sand
till, glad
to
quit
rocks,
his urn,
"
desert,down joyless
the Nubian
to
From
And
steep, he pours
the
spreading wave.
Summer.
CXXVII.
In
the
bosom
of the
eccentric meteor!
a
of country burned
with
"
Cicero
Scotch
or
Chatham.
The
a
of appellation
letter to Mrs.
"
Dun-
lop,
scenes
"
highest pride.
To
"
continue Scottish
I should
to
to deserve
exalted ambition.
and
to
the themes
wish
sing.
power,
I have
no
dearer
wish,than
unfit
have
it in my
unplaguedby routine
knows
of business
(forwhich Heaven
make sit on
am
enough), to
romantic
and rivers,
to
muse
by
the
towers stately
VOL. II.
venerable
i.
ruins,once
the ho-
146
noured
"
"
This
was
denied!
ding shed-
Oh
if you Lelius,
over
have of the
in pleasure
tears
or
the tombs
the exalted in
intellect, spare
few
to
the
mory me-
unfortunate
victim
to
strong, indignantand
memory
to energetic feeling;
the and
"
of
wild
of magnificentlandscapes
man,
as
native
common
land;
herd
much
superiorto
robbed him
of
that reptiles, in
more a
he
was
to
those his
to
drew
him
from him
native wilds
their tables in
notoriety,
"
"
cast
him, like
Oh!
! the fate !
"
sits
heavy on
CXXVIII.
scenery Bruce.
to
our
"
Equally enamoured
the and elegant
of
Scottish Michael
ever
was
unfortunate
The
lake of Loch-Leven
will be
dear
ment attach-
to
that amiable
poet.
" "
This
on
lake
in the most
lovely scenery
by
a
it is bounded
in plain,
which
are
147
the other
open
centre
groves ;
on
are
mountains
in the
Serfs,in
"
which
to
formerlystood
"
an
ancient
dedicated priory,
are
St.
the ruins
a
of
Douglas castle.
writer attractive
spot
so
beautiful," as
"
elegantly says,
and
rendered
of childhood
by the associations
early youth,would
of
necessarily impress
our
the
heart susceptible
young
poet, the
when
most
his humble
shed and
tender parents,
under suffering
of
no
consolation his
the
of pleasures
kind to recollect vulgar native vale,to paintin glowing and landscapes, his
name
ere
the
habitation
and
immortalize
these
his memory
genius."
for the
:
"
are impressions
indebted
of Loch-Leven
to
"
equal honour
the heart of
muse
of Scotland.
CXXIX.
The
name
of
to
our
country, heard in
and feelings
"
tions associa-
St.
Pierre,when
146
the
which sighs,
from
of
Frenchman, sitting
him
claim ex-
the shade
"
of
If I could
"
I violet,
should
be
was
happy :"
neither
an
a
but
flower in the
meadows,
"
nor
plant
of
odour agreeable
in the fields.
CXXX.
scenes
In the gay,
as
well
as
in the
of
are
indulgedby
The
"
Akenside,
amid
the
luxuryof London,
land of Northumber"
the romantic
scenery
ye Northumbrian
shades, which
and
the
overlook falls
;
The
Of
mossy
stream
limpid
your
How
gladly do
of all
I recal
well-known
seats,
Beloved When
old, and
for
that many
your
time, delightful
a
alone,
summer's
day,
led
"
1 wandered In silence
through by
some
calm
recesses,
unseen.
powerful
hand
But
are
these associations
moments
of
row sor-
theyare, despair,
not
the ufifrequently,
150
Melts
And
at
the
a
long-lostscenes
martyr
to
that round
"
him
rise,
sinks
repentant sighs.
Pleasures
of Memory.
of
a
foreign
moon,
from rising
behind
cloud,or
mountain
which
are
impressive landscapein
He
the ramparts, quits
in agony.
fosse,that littlestream
Lucerne, he flies
sorrow
to recalling
Constance, Zurich,or
his
companions to
boisterous has heard the
"
drown
"
his
A
revelry.
same
fellow
countryman,
same
who
and air,
felt the
him.
They
their
know, by each
mutual
and
other's
nature
of
feelings ; they
into tears.
"
burst
The
which air,
at
at
first
thrilled their
no
distance ;
the east ;
word
is
they quitthe
the
thought
the
on
guard,and
to
"
morning surprises
*
them
the road
Switzerland
Note
4-3.
!
"
151
CXXXII.
to
An
a
in effect,
some
measure
similar
that,which
de
Swiss
Rans
Vaches,
"
is recorded
air,sung
fifteenth
by
tury, cen-
the Moors.
a
In the
middle
made
of the in
a
prohibition was
Grenada, relative
Moorish
to
the fine
written by ballad,
of
poet,
on
the
conquest
and
Alhama.
"
"
It stillexists in
nish, Spa-
begins thus.
Pass"avase
el
Rey
de
Mora
la ciudad las
Grenada
puertas de Elvira
las de
Bivarambla,
Ay de mi, Alhama."
When
French
this ballad
was
sung,
as
we
are
told
by
whether writer,
in Arabic
or
language,it caused
tears, that it seemed,
had it, in
was as
such
immoderate
person,
if each
was
heard
to
lost
that, which
"
him
the
world.
In
to
consequence
this
one on
it effect,
forbidden
be
playedby
reason,
-
pain of
same
the Rans
de Vaches
the
most
heavy penalties,
were
in all countries
the Swiss
engaged as
auxiliaries in
war.
152
"C XX
XIII.
In those, who
who
are
are
alive to interesting
a
and associations,
in travelling the
turesq pic-
country, how
glowingare
Dr.Moore visited
emotions,
scenes,
When
was
of
he Meillerie,
"
by
agreeable
he vered disco-
associations.
As
he
on
gazed, he fancied
which
catch
the very
spot,
St. Prieux
a
looked
the
through
his
telescopeto
contained
traced
glimpse of
Julia.
"
house, which
he imagination, from
rock
to
his idolized
In
he sprung
rock, after
snatched
of her
which letters,
"
the wind
same
had
from
With
the
he delight,
to
observed
to
point, where
St.
to
they
embarked in
a
return
Prieux,
the
fit of
distraction, was
wife
seize
and another,)
cipitate preof
her
and
himself
into the
midst
CXXXIV.
we
Numerous
between
are
the
resemblances,
cinate fashave
draw, mentally
us,
as we
those spots,which
those,that
"
we
heard
described,or
La Hochefort
delineated.
In
tour,
which
made
in the summer
of
****,
153
among island
the most
can
delightful scenes,
many
"
of which
this
boast,
were
the
ideal
blances, resem-
This
;
river reminded
him
of
the Brenta
this mountain
appeared
the
mory me-
or Pyrenees,
Apennines ;
of the Po
that
wood
recalled
to
his
decorate
"
the Mincio.
This
which that
Plinygivesso
it with
the
beautiful
on
scriptio de-
the banks
Thus
Mr.
Coxe,
the
the
two
celebrated
at traveller,
of junction
Ebwys.
"
The
"
"
scenery
and the
romantic.
Leaning
in the
"
the
parapet
of
historical Tour
a
through
the
remained,
considerable
in the
of contemplation
me
objectsbefore
to
which objects,
cast
my
recollection
the milder
of
tain moun-
scenery,
which
of
so formerly
much drew
of
a
admired
tear
once
in the
Alps
and
are
Switzerland,and
regret, for the
of
sympathy
happy
and
fate
"
that
delightful country."
awakened peculiarly
been
on
These those
tions associa-
spots,
or
which
have
the theatres
men.
"
of great events,
the abodes
of eminent
Something analo-
154
sous
to
this,Milton
has the of
embodied
in the Ianthat
guage the
of
Adam,
when
angelinforms him,
Eden
"
disobedience:
Adam
anticipates,
should the sence pre-
with have
out to his children enjoyedin pointing places,which had been sanctified by the
"
This As
most
afflictsme,
his
that,departing hence
be
from
face, I
shall
hid, depriv'd
I could he
His With
blessed
countenance;
here
frequent
vouchsafed
Presence
On
to
my
sons
relate,
this
tree
appear'd ;
these
under
Stood I heard
among
pines his
voice
here
with
him
at
talked
!"
xi.
Lost,Book
How
far
more
is it, delightful my
than beneficence,
more
to Lelius,
template con-
the
"
the
man!
How
much
are interesting
scenes,
on
the banks
of the
now
on
Grampian
of the the the
"
mountains,
that the
shepherd
horn of warrior
and the
husbandman,
and
when of
huntsman
the of
a
trumpet
were
heralds equal
bloodybattle !
155
Sweet The
Teviot
on
glaringbale
more
No
longer steel-clad
ride
shore
or
thou
wind'st,by dale
"
hill,
all is
peaceful,
all is-still.
"
CXXXV.
The
effectsof
by Mr.
bon. Gib-
At
"
years,"
the I
a
says
he,
neither
forgetnor
express
strong emotions,which
first
agitated my breast,as
city.
a
"
approached the
; each
eternal
After
ruins
or
spot where
my
stood
present to
the
same
various
occurrences
givenbirth to,
his
of history
every
temple. Among
contrasted when
Tarpeianrock, he
proud
the and
the state
Rome,
Rome!imperious Cato
moment
Tully graced
those
bar, and
the
every
ruins,
hill of
which, at
on
tered layscatcity,
"
side around
The
Consedimus
in
pane
injens porter
156
said he to his friend, which we sit/' on Capitol, the head of the Roman "was formerly empire; the citadel of the earth, the terror of kings, illustrated of so many triumphs, enriched by by the footsteps nations. the spoils This and tributes of so many is it fallen! how of the world, how spectacle is changed! how defaced ! The path of victory the
"
obliterated
are
and by vines,
the benches
a
"
of the
nators se-
concealed Palatine
enormous
by
eyes
on
the
your
the
and shapeless
marble
the obelisks, the colossal statues, the theatre, of Nero's palace. Survey the other porticoes
"
hillsof the
vacant
"
space
is
interrupted
lie eternity,
a
publicand private
for
broken, like
ruin is the
the limbs of
more
mightygiant:and
from the the
of time injuries
the
visible
survived
have The
choly melanremote
cient an-
appearance
cause
of these
ruins
was
the
of Rienzi's attempt to
re-establish the
and with
commonwealth
did genuinefeeling
confractascolumnas, unde
"
of
Rome;
what
Petrarch
lament,that
the
magna
ex
Gibbon.
158
CX
XXVII.
of
These
reflections
are
producedby
produces all
secluded
that power
our
which association,
alone
"
ideas of
Vaucluse, rich
becomes objects,
endeared
to
the
eye
of
taste,when
w'e
those
woods,
his the
torrents,the
for,
"
enamoured
of
muses,"
as
Professor
on
Richardson
remarks, in his
ters, charac-
observations
"we
dramatic Shakespeare's
the
traverse
explore every
every
and hill,
their
footsteps in
the
cades cas-
valley.
"
The
are
groves
not
we
Mantua,
with
of and
Anio,
lovelier than
other
groves
cascades, yet
we
view
on
them
peculiar
ground,
Horace
rapture,
we
tread
as
consecrated
the minds
of
sort
and Virgil of
to
enjoya
ineffable intercourse
with
"
those ideas
even
elegantand
are
These
not
only
by
but landscapes,
objectsthe
to
simple,
whole
string
the
occasio"*rilv become
46.
Note
159
of
causes
important consequences.
man,
"
The
sight
to
of
an
old
playingupon
Gray
the
are we
harp, recalled
massacre
:
the
minstrels
by Edward
First *
"
to
circumstance the
indebted
one
of
finest odes
of
a
in the
view
picturesquecottage
of
Cheneviere,
associations delightful
was
Marmontel,
the
of origin the
his
tale of the
of Shepherdess
Alps."
produces
and well
CXXXVIII.
more
No
a
of faculty
memory
the mind
than delight,
"
well stored
most
regulated. He,
from
who
enjoyment
he may draws gets for-
life-f; since,as
be properly
Seneca
finely observes,
lived
a
said to have
one
all ages
the
into
; and
he
short
who is
and
only
solicitous about
to
How
is it delightful
remember
those
esteem, and
admire,during
Mom. He
of lives
iv.
Let. 2o.
:
"
Martial
-Hoc
est
Vivere
bis, vifclposse
priore frui.-
160
concert!
"
how
is captivating
of sublime
or
the
thought of
beautiful scenery !
of Tivoli, Enjoyingthe exquisite landscapes his friends, his wife,and his Dupaty remembered
children
he
not
with
enthusiasm.
energy
"
"
Why,"
"
exclaimed
are
with
all the
"
of
so
genius, why
dear to
me
ye
were
here ?
you,
who
are
!
my
It
impossible, my
nora, to
"
Adela, my
Adrian, and
Eleo-
pluckone
! thou
flowers.
rocks
;
Adieu
ye
flowers, ye shrubs
me.
"
and I
am
moss
! in vain
"
do
ye
strive to detain
inhabit your
stranger !
and
"
I do not
beautiful
no
Italy
"
when
I go
hence,
ren child-
I shall
see
ye
more.
"
But
perhaps, my
these
you
to
! ye will
; and
to
one
day witness
do objects,
are now
jects obdelightful
you, ye
appear
as
tiful beau"
them, as
in the
you
their father*."
When
gardensof
and I ?
"
the
ed charmBorghese villa,
bursts
their flowers,he
all my them
why
this
cannot
moment
see see
children
all
before
at
running with
her
mother, beautiful
in
virtues
heart with
"
theircheerful shouts of
How
Letters
on
Italy, Let.
66.
161
should delighted
I be to
see
Emanuel, Augustus,
these
these
these shades
of the
moss
in their
wanton
sports, on
the the
placeof
zephyrsand
CXXXIX. which
Rousseau
at
Few
can
wrote
he
he acknowledges,
of
to
recollect
new
source
enjoyment ;
the beautiful
he had
scenes
traversed
navigated ; the
much
a
rivers he had
the remembrance
of the finest
of portion
passed with
which
so
to incessantly
The
Abbe
Olivet
alwaysremembered
which he used, Bense-
with
in his
wander
in the
every
gardensof
tree
"
spot
possesseda
relic of his
genius.
recoliec-
Lett. ST.
VI
VOL.
U.
162
Marmontel, also,were
and
sources
of real the
alleviation
to
him,
at
period
rizon the hoor
of License
passedover magic
a
of sickness power,
misfortune, memory,
which while
as
by
that
with
time,the
acutest
torments;
old
age,
a
if life has
been from
well
its
spent, receives
great
consolation
the
flattering
"
credula melius
vitam
eras
Spes fovet,et
fore
semper
ait
Tibullus.
CXL.
of
so
St. Paul
dear
gative prero"
youth !
an
:" earlyimmortality
and and
are delightful
Milton,when
of the
they would
givethe
most
vivid idea
horrors,that surrounded
do so, in
no
the Fallen
manner
so
Spirits,
ly, strong-
thoughtthey could
as
them by excluding
of
"
hope.
"
Are
our
we
Are
not
groans,
rupted interintervals,
by
shall
the
of anticipation
we
th"
enjoyment, we
when experience,
shall
againrise
with
163
the
"
the sweet
a
scent
of the fields?
With
rapture does
Swiss
comforts
of his
wife,and
which
roses
His
garden,
with
he left
;
neat
; his
cottage, mantled
his
his
who friends,
lamented
departure,
tal men-
and
who
review
the
He
in enjoys,
tive, perspec-
hour, when
he
a
shall repose
under
the
boy
; he
alreadyclasps
ture, rap-
his breast ; he
beholds,with
to
wife,lifting up
her eyes
heaven
in gratitude with
eloquenceof affection,
To
think Rural
of
nought
but
rural
quiet,
ploys,
and
Far
from and
riot,
"
War
murdering joys.
Macneil.
But
what
hope, for
Nature in
years,
animated
"
thy broken
by the
unfortunate spirit,
of finger
Genevieve!
one
Formed
of her
moments, happiest
creature
was
this
elegantand
accomplished
M
in-
164
duced, by
long
series of
to vicissitudes, bury
Her emotions
"
melancholy cloister.
the theatre and
convent
"
Bruges
order
was
When
an
monasteries
nunneries
suppressed by
in
a
of the French
legislature,
in the in
company
with her
from the
refuge
fury
of the
"
revolution
at
Gages,
Hengrave,
of Suffolk.
During
the peace,
in the in
returned
to
Bruges, and
that
city she
died.
"
It is
probable,my
At
friend,
that the
be
one
of history
this
trulyunfortunate
"
lady may
day given to
to
the world.
present, it is
than
own, once,
sufficient confessed
to
friend of she
never
our
that for
sion pas-
five-and-twenty years
of with
indulgedthe
any
from
hope, in
world
reference !
"
to
connected thing,
the
Secluded
knowing walking in
of
greater
joyment, en-
than that
her convent,
was
of
the her
of
"
gardens
of
the
principal part
existence
lost in
a
an
course uninterrupted
involuntary Unpitied
ters sis-
prayer, and
victim
to
to
hopeless misery!
world,
was
save
unknown of her
convent,
debarred
every
166
CXLII.
we
From
the
same
source
tisfaction, sa-
derive,in readingmany
cient an-
ballads and
and
legendsof
"
the
Scottish, Spanish,
our
Provencal
poets.
We
assimilate
their
age
with
toms, cus-
language and
with
their sentiments
own,
we
and
misfortunes
as
we
our
draw
resemblances
of
please ;
teral collathe
our
emotions
of simplicity
pleasureare
manners
elicited from
; and
their
are
and sentiments
misfortunes
tempered by
"
the artificialmagnitude
of theirs.
It is this divine
facultyof
natural
a
ciation, asso-
that enables
of
those,whose
tion percep-
beauty has
been
improved by
derive
so
cultivation
more
of the
to imagination,
scenes
much
sure pleathe
from
or ignorant
unfeeling ;
the soldier the
tumnus
man
the
or
of the world
"
or
the
pedant ;
the statesman. of
taste
Walking
fancies he
in his garden,
sees
almost
Veramong flocks
so
and
Pomona
:
"
hiding themselves
vale he
The
peoples with
have
the Virgil,
the
of Idylls
Gesner. its
"
If he rise
to
the
tain, moun-
he compares
towering
s"SHimit to that of
167
; aud
if he wander
wild
"
and
savage he
by
scends de-
groupes
to
of the
and
Salvatorial
images.
the
When
forest, fawns,
from
dryads*,
green
"
hamadryads, peeping
to
their
vistas, appear
rove
on on
attend him
of
a
at
every step.
a
If he
or
the banks
a
near river,
tain, foun-
the shores of
he lake,
of the Naiads
"
in the the
murmuring of
a
if*he
repose
on
edge of
fantastic crag,
over jutting
the
sea,
his illusion
picturesfinefloating
formed
on
Nereids,in
or
their robes
of green,
"
the waves,
on reclining
the rocks.
Caeruleos
habet
unda
Deos
; Tritona
canorum,
balaenarumque prementem
terga lacertis,
; quarum
immania
et
Doridaque,
Pars Pisce in mole
vein
natas
pars
nare
videntur,
sedens
virides siccare
capillos ;
quaedam.
CXLIII.
a
Thus
the
charm, which
draws
the
nativas
fontium
nymphas,
"
lie P.
quibus
fabulatur
i.
se antiquitas,
Martyr,dec.
Lib. """.
168
which
which bur
tints them
so
with those
colours,
to
in administer,
"
a delightful manner,
perception. Nature
but it is the
and
produces
the
that imagination,
"
down
combines which
we are
our
and selection,
it is the
imagination,
synonyma of
*. inspiration
CXLIV.
And
what
a
comitant con-
result of
"
refined power
of association?
For
are
themselves
and
theypartake of
animate
those
qualities
ferences re-
in the mind
and
and
: beings
"
allusions
to
sentient
the eye,
which
do
refer to
"
pointto heavenlyones.
lonna
near a
ever
to
forgetthose
smaller
cottage,
Caof been
time, lost
The
all
traces
morning
had
Note
48.
169
devoted
to
the
admirable
cimens spe-
of mountain
which
along
of the The
the
turesqu pic-
bridgeat Rhyland-varto
Pont-y-Pair;
tremendous from
of
Conway
"
to
cataract
grand mountain
of
enormous
head, frowned
of every and
all
below, while
rocks
shape, now
and
jutting
now
bleak
bare
the
woods,
corated de-
with
shrubs, here
him
there triangular,
at
ragged and
Snowdon
met pointed,
every
step
till,
the
Lugwy,
a
burst
majestyof point of
the
a
ruvian Pe-
mountain
Upon
the
rock,
had
leisure
to
recal which
to
nishing asto-
scenes,
had
of the
elevated
earlypart
in
day, and
nature, in
"
magnificenceof
all the
on
of he
sun
the had
was
scenes
globe!
the
When
the spot,
which
upon
he sate, the
rays
peak
of Snowdon, grey
"
clouds ly Scarce-
various ceased
sombre
to
columns.
illumine
170
from rising
behind
long line
east!
"
of dark
sun
clouds,irradiated
the
moon
all the
The
sinks and
on
rises in other
;
"
but
on
Snowdon
I have
clifFe nor
of pencil
Lorrain.
Unmindful
thoughtwas
delirium
for
no
given to
the future ;
and, lost in
Colonna
in
of
enthusiastic rapture,
of happiness, description than that, existence,
wished
a
other
state
an
of immortal
from arising
from
among
whatever
still more
eternal
cent magnifiArchitect,
on
the labours
scenes,
on
of the
in other
other
summits, and
other
globes!
"
CXLV.
in
a
By
the charm
ways,
of
combination, scenery,
to
our
of variety
or
appears
partakeof
our
lights, de"
to
in sympathize does
misfortunes.
nature
seem
As
cord. ac-
are
our
so feelings,
all and
are
to
"
Are
we
cheerful
flower
gay?
"
every
bird,
"
every
field, every
our
Are
worn spirits
down
lancholy Me-
us
throws
a
and
dread
repose;
171
Her
gloomy
every
the
presence flower
murmur
a
saddens and
Shades
darkens
Deepens
And
of the
fallingfloods,
o'er the
woods.
"
breathes
browner
horror
Inanimate
in lessons
as
it were,
ciates asso-
the
solation. con-
lamented
the
death
of
to
"
his
console
"
him
in
letter.
when
was
sensible alleviation of my
sorrow
influence of
upon
"
you,
was
I will take
relating.I
was
from returning
course,
and, as I
steering my
I
"
began
to
template con-
the
was
surroundingcountry.
and
Behind
me cupied oc-
Egina ; Megara
my
once cities,
right hand,
most
Corinth
my
left.
"
were flourishing, f
now
to
irretrievable ruin.
"
I,
to
* shall indignantly,
man
complain
whose when I
of
the
and is
the
ills of
life,
being in
see so
short, necessarily
one
many
at cities,
view, totally
relieved friend,
?' destroyed
"
This
reflection, my
172
my
sorrow."
"
Such
was
the mind of the elegant Sulon accompaniments and such,it may be presumed, was the consolation, pitius,
derived
among
even
by
the
Marius, sanguinary
"
where, as Livy Carthage ; rius observes, CarthageseeingMarius, and Mafinely the one tion might serve as a consolaCarthage,
to
the ruins of
the other*.
CXLVI.
of Africa is
The
one
answer
of Marius
to
the praetor
a
of the sublimest in
indications of
is well suited
every
argument.
"
Oppressed
species escaping
of deserved many
he
Marius, misfortune,
at
after
arrived dangers,
to
lengthin Africa,where
some
hoped
officer
the
have
"
received
He
was
mark
of
favour
came
to
him,
addressed
him I
am
ter af-
manner: following
Marius
"
rected di-
by the
forbids your
in
praetor to
inform
"
you,
that
you
a
he
sist per-
in landing he
Africa.
Should
you
as
doing so,
"
will treat
public
indig-
enemy."
*
Struck
with
astonishment
aud
Inopemquevitam
in
Marius
aller alien
possclesse solatia.
17*
all the
of Moscow, palaces
"
or
all the
of Venice.
CXLVIII.
to
As
friends
the
unfortunate, so
to
the
greatest of
resolves the
friends
noblest
the lover of
landscape. It
works
ments ornaaffecting
of created
things.
"
Where
Of
mouldering
columns
mark
the
lingeringwreck
;
Balbec
The
The On
shattered
dome,
pedestal
and
yawning tomb,
taste
loiteringsteps, reflective
folded
arms
surveys
With
and
sympathetic gaze,
treads meads
;
Charm'd
O'er Or
with
poeticmelancholy
and
on
ruined
rides
towns
desolated
sublime
the
time's of
expanded
wings.
"
And
views
face
ever-changing things!
Darwin, 1. 231.
How
often, my
dear
have Lelius,
I heard
you
descant, with
of and
on melancholypleasure,
Melrose
how
Abbey,
often have
and
we
of
Cadzow
surveyed,with
kindred
rapture, the
remnants
of what"j"nce constituted
Note
49.
175
Ragland,Pembroke
Towey
; the
and
Caerphili ;
and
Dine-
vawr,
walls of
Oyster*
those,
the
equalled un-
bay of Swansea;
of
and
belongingto
bay
have affecting
the Earl
Bulkeley,near
!
"
of Beaumaris been
our
Equallysolemn
Strata
and
emotions, at beholding
rida Flous
the sacred
:
"
walls of
Glastonburyand
have
so
which ruins,
reminded strongly
of Ossian's
of description
those of Balclutha*.
CXLIX. of former
In
awful remains
solemn
we
ages,
our
and
are affecting
emotions,when
to
view
them
have
with
reference
"
the
we
they
witnessed!
When
grand
towers,
Temora.
"
"
The
author
of that of
most
elegant
has
an
and
classical
poem,
The
Pleasures
"
Memory,"
exquisitely
graphic simile:
As Awes Than the
stern
us
grandeur deeply
the
of
Gothic
tower
less
in its
morning
hour,
fall
shades arch
we
serenely
;
On The
broken
ivied wall
to
images
each
trace,
grace.
"
Stenl from
year
melancholy
176
over rising
the
Conway,
"
is.it
not possible,
to be
to
struck mind
with
admiration?
But
when
we
recal
midnightmurders, theyhave
is
our
been with
witness
admiration
terror
tempered
of sensations, partaking
How the
different
are
our
when feelings,
of
we
vey sur-
ruins
Netley
and
Llanthe
tony, the
Cistercian
near
abbey of Tintern, or
Valle
Crucis!
"
the
tuated sifirst,
in
sombre
surrounded
of the
by woods
;
mountains,on
a
the banks
Wye
the
fourth,in
all
deep, romantic
vale,
and of of
encompassed,on
mountains, which
sides, by toweringrocks
it
render of
worthy
and
the
pen
Dyer,
the
harp
"
Taliesin
the
touch
Wouvermanns
Reclined
upon
those
scattered
how fragments,
are captivating
powerful,how
the stonns,
on
mind,
those
when ruins
of
has from
weathered; and
year
to
the
numbers,
who,
same
year, made
have the
the experienced
same
emotions,
and
reflections with
177 ourselves!
While
"
surveyingthose
awful
ters charac-
of ruined
who faith,
the dirge, of
a
sacred
chaunted requiem,
an lovely,
unfortunate
and lamented
Departed soul,whose
This Whose hallowed
poor
remains
lowly grave
contains; o'er,
more
of life is
are no
Whose
"
in this
earthly scene
"
Hast be
our
lovely sister
way
to
been
Swift
"
thy
we
where there
the
"
blessed
"
dwell
j
"
Until
meet
thee
farewell!
farewell!
Bailey.
Musing
what
on
this slumber
awe
of
solemn
do the the
we
contrast
sacred choral
time, when
ing peal-
hymn
have
echoed
through
nious till the have
but
the
sounds,dyingaway
as
as
if the form
of
humanityalone prevented
even
to
the
gates of heaven.
VOL.
II.
178
CL.
Perpetualchanges glide on
to
* valleys ;
in
eternal
mountains; mountaius
summer
ending of
and in the of
of autumn, concealed
new
lap of
"
winter
are
the
embryos
spring.
Flowers
quire ac-
; red
changes
white
to
to
blue,blue
"
into
"
pearlsthey crumble
some
one
has
is the cradle
moment
"
of the
at butterfly,
the tomb
of the
lar. caterpilthe
world,such
fate of
and vegetables,
the fortune
of towns,
once
empires!
"
is
Gazna,
mightyempire?
map
In vain do Who
can
we
it in the and
of Asia.
"
trace
power Strabo
of splendour
us,
ancient
Carthage, once,
informs
miles forty
in
in circumference,
one
the small
of village
Melcha?
"
at Syracuse,
time
than
"
an
extensive in
heap
former
of
of
ruins the
and
rubbish.
Capernaum,
times
sists con-
only six
huts^and where
50.
qow
Note
179
How the of the lake than thirteen
"
waters
Asphaltites once
cities*.
"
rished flou-
more
Where, too,
"
is the No
on so
of Memphis? city
Etiam
as
to
place,
times
a
Ephesus, in
the find
famous, has
and
become
habitation
a
few
herdsmen the
masses
shelter from
of inclemency of
walls. crumbling
CLI.
a
The
double that
of spring
flowers f, and
"
once
so
ful, fruit-
in the
"
of Nature desolate.
The
Leontine
Strabo.
twelve
Lib.
xvi.
"
In
the
were
reign
of
Tiberius,says
an
nius, Sueto-
destroyed by
was
earthquake.
convulsion of
as
"
Suet,
in
This
the
great
nature,
which
in the the
Gospel
"
of St.
Matthew,
St. Mat.
occurring
27.
c.
v.
at the
crucifixion.
Vid.
"
ch.
u,
51. and
"
The
is confirmed
n.
by Tacitus.
86.'
non
An.
Lib.
37,
by Pliny,Lib.
Lucius
terrarum
cap.
"
f Thus
toto
Florus
Omnium,
inodo
sed Italia,
est
:
urbe
nihil
inollius
solo: Lib.
ccelo
denique
floribus
vernat:
nihil
"
uberius L. Flor.
ideo
i. c.
Liberi
16.
C'ererisquecertamen
dicitur.
180
cero,
and
now
called the
of Catania,are plains
a
less littlefrequented,
and
rious cu-
melancholymedley of
thistles.
"
description
forests
of
flowers,growing among
and
miniature
of
weeds
In the
once
what
condition
which in
is the it
was
on island,
an
island,
:
"
the
richest
a
all the
mass
ancient
of
world
The the
city is
island
a
confused
rubbish, and
abandoned
"
destitute totally
and
a
without and
temple and
retain
without
not
even
hut!
stone
"
Babylon
to
Nineveh*
tell the
dred hun-
of melancholy history
their fate ;
"
and
the
excite
whether question,
fable.
CLII.
Where
is the
island of
where
Chryses,once
the
near existing
Lemnos,
and
Atlantis of
Plato t?"
*
This
built by city,
to
Ashur
extent
(Genesis, ch.
of
i.
x.
v.
11.), was
so
large, as
"
be
to
the
days journey
m..v.
"
in circumference. For
a
(Yid. Jonah,
its
eh.
v.
4.).
was v.
prophecy
of
ruin,
and
see
Nahuni,
"
in.
It
taken 15.
"
by
Nebuchodonosor
Ahasuerus.
Tobit^ch. xxv.
f Note
51.
182
Of
or
change,
never,
oh
never
! let not
cease
man
complain,
wail
;
Else
For
he the lone
to
imperial dome,
cottage
of in the
to
where
the
swain
Rears
All
silent
fickle
dale, gale
are
feel
fortune's
;
:
to change itself,
doom'd
raised
to
heaven
the
mass
humble
vale,
gulphs
where
bloom'd.
mountain's
mighty
rolls
entomb'd,
continents
have
Atlantic*
wide
Beanie's
MinstrcL
CLIII.
est
The
Pythagoreans
from
"
derived
the gieatof in
consolation
this
everchangingaspect
is
not
a
material
objects.
than
There
finer passage
makes
all
Ovid,
that, wherein
he
to
from digression
Numa,
give a historyof
the the
and of
moral the
philosophyof Pythagoras,
of
nomy, astro-
Copernican system
if we
except
Homer, Plato,
mind !
Newton, Aristotle,
that
"
and
ever
graced
human
The
followingpassage
"
doubtless,Beat-
tie's prototype.
'
Plato's
Timarus.
183
Vidi Esse
Et Et
ego,
quod
"
fuerat
quondam
ex
solidissima
asquore
tellus,
fretum.
a
Vidi
factas concliae
terras;
marina1
;
procul
vetus
pelago
est
jacuere
inventa
in montibus
vallem
est
anchora
summis.
aquarum
"
Quodque
fuit campus,
et
decursus
Fecit;
ehme
mons
deductus
aret
in asquor:
siccis
humus
arenis
1.262.
CLIV.
is
an
animal
the
highest class,is
and
not
only
of
propertiesof objects
man a
she has
a
to delegated
a
power
in operating
similar, though in
limited
degree.
affinities of
gaineda knowledge
and
of the effects
fire,water
most
curious
transformations
in
bodies;
decides
determines
nature
the limits of
the
of
qualities, by
different
methods
of
tion, solu-
and depuration deliquation ; by precipitating, and evaporating; distilling, by the arts of chrystal-
exsiccation
and
by
by pulverizing, by
And
fusion,
and
cination. cal-
though
he
possesses
not
the art
of
the
184-
and
the
nor
amethyst,nor
many
a
any
of the harder
he has earths,
of
the softer
of
power the
while, by
of bodies, he uniting
most
is
capable of
and, by
combining the
the
most
of acids application
CLV.
power it were,
The which
to
(who Stoics,
were
of ignorant of
the
electricity possesses
the four elements
and
water
as life, giving
of
matter,) resolved
air,earth,fire
other; and
as
magnetism
is said to have
in nature, of
which quality,
progress
had
the power
suspendingthe
a
of events, and
which,
after
them
"
to
revert
So
that every
recur
event
is bound and
to perpetually
the
number
birds,and
the earth
;
animals,again to
and
animate
and
adorn
the
same
passions, again to
vices,and
to
exercise
to
be
liable
the
were
to disorders, state
which
"
they
in their si-.Jaject
no
new
of antecedence.
It is
that certain,
185
or plant,
flower,fish,animal
or
mineral
has since
been
introduced
multitude of ages.
is
"
This
in perfect
nature
and, as the
the
to
system of
of
is formed
upon
(thoughfrom
Heaven righteous
a
as
state of
immortality may
there may
and be
defend
us!)that
of events
as
movement
passions,
drawn
to
for
bodies ; and
they are
by
an
one
attractive
a
force,they may
one
thrown
manner as
back
by
repulsive
and
;
"
in the
same a
globesascend
descend
by
CLVI.
some
But
though nature
to
appears is
to
suffer
of her
works
"
decay, she
her
attitudes.
"
decay
matter,
; for in the
future
reproduction.Ever
"
her
in replaces another:
of
"
one
spot, what
attentive to into things
she has
ever
beauty, and
their
all resolving
on
original dependence
herself,
186
she and
moss permits
to creep
over
ivyto
the
wave
upon
Time,
withers but and
a
with
his
gradual but
conceives
and
touch,
;
one
ivy and
the pulverizes
monument
nature, who
the
same
executes
at
moment,
an
whose
every
thought is
system,
in operating
unlimited
orbit, jealous
expands creations,
of
and prerogative,
studious of her
what she
with
another.
"
one
hand
compresses loses
with
"
nothing;
to
onlywhat
she appears
one
lose *.
"
of time, no beginning
"
so object,
created,has evaporated
the minutest
nor one
not
one
atom,
in the
"
lost :
not
what
or
we
denominate
ment, eleany
deed, word,
have
ever
ever
of
his creations
nor
once
ledge, know-
will !
"
escape
of the
Eternal Mind
let
us
return
to
"
CLVII.
dulging inre-
Note
54.
187
ferred
the
so
often, were
since
an
unfortunate
appear
to
malady
have
of
mind,
it would
its probable
in origin is modern
:
"
the desire of
but
by
one
quality,
of
which
the
constitutes
surest
indications
of mind, divinity
those
placesand ruins,
of
which,
in
miration ad-
sympathy, possess
transacted been
power
teresti in-
our
remarkable
deed
has
been
walls,or
with
any
illustrious person
"
connected
There
was
nothingin
of any
the promontory
Actium,
worthy
the famous
observation, particular
many
yet Germanicus
because
travelled
miles
to
was
see
it,
battle of Actium
"
fought
in
the
bay below.
and
at
He
Anthony's
fected afhighly
camp,
was,
as
Tacitus
the
images,which
success
selves, presentedthemof
of the
of
one
ancestor, and
the
misfortunes
of another
f.
"
CLVIII.
a
The
ruins of Dinas
"
Bran
conic
mountain.
The
eminence, on
of the from
they
Yid.
Stewart's
was
Philosophy
descended
"
Mind,
both Ann.
p. 279.
f Germanicus
Octavius
and
families
n.
of
Anthony.
Yid.
Tacitus,
e.
53"
188
are
is not situated,
to
so
high,as
so
to
render
to
every oIh
siderable con-
jectinferior
it,nor
low, as
"
lose any
If it want
Fowddy
or
of Carnedd the
"
Llewellyn,
than
than
compensates
than
beautiful
either.
it ;
fifty
mountains
to
rise around
each
width,till
"
the
more
Below
Seated
Vale
of
Langollen.
"
eminence, commanding
so
range
so
small
ruins of Dinas
we
would
not
recal
to
mind, that
of castle,
they
of the
are
the
fragments,was
once
the residence
Eynion.
A
are
few
mounds
of earth
and
few
litary so-
that all,
remain
city
"
works, earthbut
a
him,
? or pleasure curiosity
Connect
"
this how
scene uninteresting
190
In
the surveying
ven, Hain
an
expandinginto
all
Europe,
and
wearing the
the British
immense
entire
contain
secure
the from
noeuvre ma-
of
crown
a
winds
and
fleet might
with
power
ideas of
in the
and
"
magnificenceare
by
a
mind!
Then,
magic glance,we
to
traverse
the tempestuous
channel
call to mind
received.
to Returning
we
had
travelled,
and
rious va-
the beholding
creeks
embellish
not
mory me-
majestic estuary,
the the
who
derive
highestsatisfaction
beautiful
scene
in of
Cymbeline, where
Fidele,has
a
Imogen,
in the character
flowers
over sprinkled
solemn !
"
in honour
CLXI.
of
When
we
arrive
at
in Cerig-Druidian,
palaces
in
the
Den-
its
or
"
This
circumstance
of
is find j
alluded
described
Philips'* poem
Cyder.
191
in bigh,standing
the midst of naked
one
and
an
barren
mountains, without
character,on
idea shivering itself!
"
objectof
eye may
agreeable
what
a
which
the
repose,
of poverty and
desolation
a
presents
an
idea,heightened by
of span,
recollection of
the
an
magnificent scenery
arch,of
considerable
Pont-y-Glyn, where
bestrides the
a
vast
and
horrific with
Glyn
rushes of
unceasingroar!
heaths
on
After
takinga
to
survey
a
the wide
every
side,turn
fragments, which
and age, cromlechs those
are
around. ! From
"
sacred
relics have
remained, in
of the
this
wretched of the
our
superstition
was
Druidical
This
spot
once
favourite centre
Druids !
"
for
the
rendezvous
"
of
to
"
British
Here
they sacrificed
was
the village
sacred the A
misletoe
barbarous
brought
this mountain
anathemas!
"
upon of the
top of
an
which hill,
view
few remains
ramparts.
"
"
The
scene
is
desolate.
of
summer
veins of
youth
are
the
192 midst of
and burn
nerves
of age
warm
with
pity
the
when indignation,
it is
recollected,
ramparts
;
"
once
contained
here he made
of
his last
;
"
Caer-Caradoc
"
was
betrayed;
was
from
this
spot,
to ceasing
king,he
conveyed prisoner
to Rome
CLXII.
When the
we
visit the
of sepulchres
the
good,
causes
or
monuments
same
produce
tombs
the
of
"
Plutarch,
the visiting
Plato
"
their anniversaries.
we
may
voted de-
himself
to
who
villas, one
and
of
which
had
a
belonged to Virgil
sensible in pleasure
former
another
to
Cicero,took
tomb
of the
#, that
and
in
mory me-
performing funeral
f.
"
his
Statius
performed
annual
Note
55.
f Note
6"i.
193
ceremony.
"
At the
same
tomb,
after the
of several
to to
Giovanni centuries,
a
Boccacio
merchant, and
ture. litera-
dedicate
"
poetry and
CLXIII.
more
There
is no
the
Paris
to gratifying to
"
heart,no
institutionmore
the Museum of
convent
Augustine monks,
Alexander
"
established
name
by
Le
Noir, whose
not
Who,
the
that has
lost
take
not
in musing pleasure
many
among
of
so
illustrious
roses
dead; where,
stand myrtles,
surrounded
by
press, cyof
and
the
cenotaph
and
Moliere,the
busts of
Fenelon Sully,
Bossuet;
;
Montesquieu,Fontenelle
a
and Malesherbes
where
sarcophaguscontains
a
the ashes of La
Fontaine;
of
and
medallion !
"
perpetuates the
memory
Chevert
CLXIV.
fi
As
the
was
writing the
which
to
o
name
of
Chevert,"
are
letter in
a
you the
tell me,
that you
VOL.
become
prey
profouudest-
II.
194
melancholy was
the
brought to
me.
"
Alas age
'
my
friend,
of every
have been
so
many
great,
conversed with
as are
Illustrious Have
To in her
consecrate
woe,
taught,
make
enough
and distress,
ambition
of fortune.
"
E'en
wish
the
Those
an
are
the men,
Fortune
her
most
takes
unerring aim,
"
"
sharpens
fatal
arrow
Fortuna
immeritos
auget honoribus,"
cla-
says
celebrated
dibus
dignos eadem
et perfida
divitiis beat:
"
lubrica!"
What
ought
to
vince con-
you,
"
that Fortune is
is not
of etherial
? origin
What
argument
the
disdain
?
"
she virtue,
of wisdom
a
To
be
revenged
her,my
Lelius, (forin
the character draw
woo
case
like
this, revenge
me hort ex-
assumes
of
let excellence,)
her frowns.
"
you you
cannot
to
solace her
your
"
from be
Since all
come be-
to
your
exert mistress,
the
energiesof
her master,
nature, and
enemy,
we
resolve
have
to
The
not
the
195
power
to
must conciliate,
be you,
subdued.
but
"
In
the will
she struggle,
be
swan
will wound
the wound
as
healed
by the touch
the her
of
and resolution;
the
tack at-
eagle,when
own
he ventures
to
element, so
will you,
attacks you
my
deservedly; un-
Lelius,master
and from that
have
mastered
your
her,
"
moment
becomes
friend.
Fortune,
she
wild
fickle and
to
indiscriminate
as
is,has
admire,
"
when
she
power
to
conquer.
has
?
"
melancholyno
Had
no
resources
?
"
the
daughter of genius,
she
;
Milton
her,
wooed
Nuraa
and
andTully;
Collins?
men,
not
Ariosto
Dante
Tasso; Milton
"
Euripides; Gray,
me,
Spenser
those
were
and
Believe
be
my
friend,
tricious mere-
to
captivated by
blandishments.
"
Melancholy,
the
which
of
indulgence
contemplation, softens
fibre with
to
o
the
heart, tunes
and
every
the
an
nicest
touch,
the disposes
mind
derive
2
elevated satis-
196
from faction,
nature
every
every
sources
grand
and
; from
secret
virtuous of this is
all the
"
association
and
Indulging in
of mirth the
propensity, infatuating
the and feelings its turbulence it
to grating
soul; it unhinges, by
deranges the
by which
of
we
are
bound,
In wild
and and
meditation.
"
uncultivated
to
scenes,
Melancholy
loves
principally
but
reside.
"
and that
seek
streets, associate
ill with
to
of delicacy
taste, which
of
some
prompts
the mind
or
the
banks
shade of
favourite
grove,
"
the
cool and
some
murmuring
ivied
rivulet. the
These,
and
questered se-
the
cloud-capt mountain,
the glen,
deep
and ruin,
the
setting sun,
plate contem-
are
which objects,
; and
she most
most
to delights
sounds,
to grateful
her
ear,
are
melting accents
an
of the
warblings of
Eolian
; the
midnightstorm
foaming
loved
awake
to
distant voice of
an
thunder; the
"
cataract,
and
angry
ocean.
Milton
indulge in
scenes,
which
conspired to
philosophicmelan-
198
we
are
a
seated
on
the
decayed
how
trunk of
an
oak, or
love to
gone
on
rustic monument,
does
the mind
are
of those
who friends,
"
that
mysteriouscountry,
and troubling,
our
where
are
the wicked
at rest
cease
from
the weary
!"
"
At those moments,
memory,
like
magic
of
ror, mir-
improves
beauty,
their and elegance,
their features
to
a
to those
bland
a
manly
manners
and
amiable
their
"
language to
mutual
and persuasive
we
bewitching oratory.
while
Virtues, which
loved,
ship, friendtheir
exchanging the
are
offices of
even
foibles
"
give an
additional
splendourto
their portraits.
CLXVII.
survivor raises
In
a
domain, the
column,
"
of his expressive
this hallowed
spot he
tires, re-
close of
on
day,
the
urn
and
the exemplifies
and elegant of
motto
of
Shenstone,
Maria*.
"
of the
tiful beau-
Such mournful
an urn
was
Mason.
"With
what with
he embellish
of his
his alcove
the
and
"
medallion A
friend,
melancholy Gray!
lyr^,was suspended
IS
ole
58.
199
over
the
entrance,
inscribed with
was
motto
on a
from tablet
Pindar, and
the
underneath
written
stanza following
"
from
elegy
Here
scattered
unseen
year,
By hands
The And
showers
to
found, here,
red-breast
loves
build
little
Aristotle
was
was
accustomed attendant
to
on
to
say,
that melancholy
ever
superiorgenius;
the truth
of
and, the
more
confirm the
"
he observation,
instances
examples of
It
was
Plato, and
that affection,
among
Lysander.
the cascades
this
gentle
soothed and
soul
of
of
Drummond
Hawthornden;
the mountains
among
of
of
Dyer,
wandering among
of
Cwm-Dyr
; and
Petrarch,when,
formed the
the
solitudes of
Valchiusa,he
wish, that
urn.
CLXVIII.
The the
same
emotion
a
"
"
soothes
us
in
those
to appeals
never
which heart,
well-written Whatever
an
scriptio in-
sure pleaelegant
man
enjoysin
travels," says
200
French
monument
writer
of
*,
"in
a statue contemplating
or
in
seems
to
me,
as
if
human
voice issued
out
of the
stone, made
void midst of ages,
of
through
the
man,
mighty
iu the
itself to addressing he
very
was
not
that other
in those suffered
had places,
"
thought
and
to
like himself!
Should
happen
mind that
a
be
the
of inscription
no
some
ancient the
nation,which
into the
subsists
it conveys longer,
thought
"
ruins
whom
of
we
an
empire."
bound has
Our
friend
Philotes,to
are
succeeded recently
*
his
paternalestate, in
a
the county of in
one
*
,
has retired
erected
recesses
monument,
a
of the
most
of
glen,to
"
the virtues of
It
consists of
on a
white
marble,
"
ing standwide-
pedestalof
secures
black it from
granite. A
the sun,
"
spreadingoak
and
moss screen
and
ivy,
east
it from
the winds.
On
the the
simplyinscribed
name
St. Pierre.
201
of
the
Grecian
round
hero ; the
on
the
American;
best
is pedestal
"
The
of men,
two
Man
them;
Some
of the
let Heaven
tablet, commemorating
and Ovid Pliny; and
Propertius-f* ;
and
Rucellai
Sannazaro
and
Trissino; Petrarch
Pietro
Colonna;
and
and
Bembo;
Boileau
Racine.
CLXIX. which
be has
seen
temple,erected
the the summits
to
on
small
tain, moun-
overlooks
vale,and
of all the
"
which
can
from
largerones,
are
been busts
dedicated
of and
and
liberty. In
the niches
the
Howel-Dha;
and
Sidney ;
Chatham.
on
"
Somers
Camden of
a
The the
names
few
not
inscribed
ceiling; theyare
Note
rv.
59.
el.
f Ovid
de
Trislibus, lib.
remarkable Gracchus
and
,10.
"
Valerius
Maximus
"
gives
several
instances Caius
of ancient
friendships.
Rheginu*
Sempronius
and and
Blosius
and and D.
; Lucius
Servilius
CEelius
;
Caepio ;
Servius and
Voluranius
Lucullus; Petronius
Brutus;
and
Terentius
Laelius
and
Scipio; Agrippa
and
Augustus
; Orestes
; Damon
Pythias;
"
ander Alex-
Hephestion
7.
and
Pylades.
Valer.
Max.
Lib.
iv.
c.
202
numerous,
long doubted
the evidence
of
In
the
are library
of suspendedportraits
and
philosophers: Bede,
"
the father
traced of
not fall,
only
coe,
by
the
tory his"
arts.
are
the busts
of
Paley.
In the saloon
whole
of length portraits
of
Wright Barry ;
lead
to
Derby;
and
Sir Joshua
"
Fuseli the
West.
In the
which cloisters,
chapel,are
the
small
marble
monuments,
commemorating
virtues of
SherTillotson,
and
Porteus.
Near
the the
which fountain,
of
waters
the
garden,
stands
a
statue
Hygeia,holdingin
are
her hand
names
on tablet,
which
inscribed
Hunter.
"
the
of the
Harvey, Sydenham,
character of
a
and
Health, in
Fawn, supports
CLXX.
On
an
at obelisk,
of
203
the
shrubbery, hang
other
two
medallions; one
; these
are
of
Nelson, the
of Moore
the
only
to
"
warriors, to whom
pay
Philotes has
of admiration
been
and
"
anxious
the
homage
gratitude.
Beneath
that of Nelson
is inscribed
stranger!
this medallion exhibits
OF the
portrait
THAT
GREAT WHOSE
AND
GOOD
MAN,
DEATH,
OF
THE AFTER
ENEMIES SUSTAINING
HIS
COUNTRY, DEFEAT,
DECISIVE
HAILED,
as the proudest
of
their
victories!
Under
the the
medallion
of
General
written
Moore
is inscribed
tryman, coun-
following stanza,
"
by
his
Burns.
'*
Nae
could
comes
teaze faint-hearteddoubtings
; wi'
him:
Death
fearlesseye
a
he
sees
him ;
;
fVi'
bloodyhand
And
when
welcome he
him gie's
fa's,
leaves him, breathing
faint huzzaes."
CLXXI.
column, erected
on
the
highest peak
204
of the
mountains,celebrates
and
genius
"
of Newton
Embosomed
four of
in trees,
through which
many
are
formed
so shadyvistas, exhibiting
resemblances.
of Gothic
among
fretted
aisles,stands
"
temple
architecture.
mosses
harps,
the
concealed
and
near
decorate valley, of
the
windows,
and
Haydn
Handel, Pleyel
some
Paintings,
the
by
of and
our
best
artists, cover
"
walls of in with
of ceilings
are pictures
temple.
Taliesin
of
The
these
represented as
"
various
amusements.
to
is
own
rapture,
is
the
sounds
his
occupied
in
his writing
Romance
Orlando
Ariosto;Shakespeare is dippinghis
a
in the appears
of overflowings
human
heart; Milton
opening of
to
cloud,which
eye
sively progres-
unfolds
of
his astonished
"
the wonders
the
Empyrean.
into
"
Otway
at
is
sorrows
represented, as
of
crown
melting
Monimia.
from
tears,
the
his
own
Pope
is
a receiving
of laurel is
his master,
Homer;
A'kenside
refreshing
Naiads;
206
In
stands basin.
"
an
statue,
The
over leaning
circular marble
statue
we
is that of
female, in whose
countenance
NYMPH
OF
immediatelyrecognise the
FOUNTAIN OF TEARS.
an
THE
At
is pedestal
inscribed of Mr.
elegant
from fragment,
the pen
Gray*.
stands
CLXXIII.
few
yards farther
on,
an
old sycamore,
when
a
by planted
on
a
the father of
Philotes,
boy;
invitation.
INSCRIPTION. Oh From
thou!
who
hither
vales
com'st
or
from
far,
peaceful
fie'ds of war,
From
Or With Here
Arar's
side
thyme
rest
o'er,
more
and
try
the
Here,
where
flowers,
of various
hue,
In modest Where In
pride attract
rills from
mountain and
gurgling streams,
murmuring
peace where charm and the the
Their
course
vale,
Where
And And
love
prevail ; prolong,
soii".
"
birds woods
their nofes
with
warbling
Fons ! See.
* O
Lacbrymarum
20T
"
"
Oh!
every
earthrywoe,
these
scenes
And
taste
raptures, which
beset
bestow
Fly
And
from
world,
in
with
passionsrude,
"
fix
thy home
peacefulsolitude.
CLXXIV.
near an
Higher up
the
mountain,in
gle, din-
mited which lets in an almost unliopening, ing view of the surrounding country, the followaddresses itselfto the stranger. inscription
INSCRIPTION.
the
world's
turmoil,
awful
scenes,
cottage
on
the
rocky banks
this wild
on
torrent, read
these who
*
simple lines,
knew the
*
Carv'd
this bark
*
by
*
one,
world.
"
Seek'st
thou
contentment
secrets
in this
of thine
lonelyspot?"
heart.
"
Examine
Hast
If not
"
first the
"
thou
fulfilled the
thee
scenes
thy station?"
"
"
return
to
again,
those
And Which No
Who
in its
busy
hours,
"
vice wrung
from
"
happiness
awaits
that
"
"
leaves the
"
world,
find
because
him."
No!
Must
"
He,
who'd
enjoyment when
and
alone,
"
first be
wise, be innocent
good.
"'
But
art hither
driven,
"
By
wrongs
fortune,
the rude and
or
the and
wrongs awful
of man, character
"
Charmed Of these
with
wild
"
rocks
mountains,
look
around
"
208
"'
Scan
every
a
objectwith
be
"
curious
eye,
"
spot
**
built her
woods
temple here.
and
These
and
towering rocks,
this
"
mountains
:
"
winding
stream
"
thycoming
every
object
round
to year,
"
'*
bold
"
Contentment And At
At
reignswithin
dances
on
the
glen below,
top
:
*'
Freedom
the mountain's
"
earlymorn,
close
the hunter's
call is
heard,
"
shepherd'ssimplepipe
its rustic note.
"
"
"
Charms
"
lone
valleywith
here
"
Pause, wanderer,
near
then
go
no
farther
the
on
"
"
"
And
this
spot, which
for
had
overlooks
glen,
"
Erect What
O'er
thy
time
home:" the
sun
"
his
evening
ray
"(
all the
prospect
kind
rude,
gentle maid,
and
"
(Form'd in
In all the
nature's
best
happiestmood)
"
sweet
of heart, simplicity
sweetest
"
Call'd
this,' the
that spot,
she had
ever
seen!'"
CLXXV.
under
an
The
old yew
"
lines following
tree
were
written
your
member, re-
in the
of church-yard
as
favourite
The village.stands in
a
church,
you
may
a
down valley,
summer
a
which
:
rivulet
murmurs,
assumes
unseen,
the during
in winter it
"
importanceof beauty of
torrent.
Nothing
can
combines
some
"
"
graces
with valley,
scenery.
Were
day, to
209
i( Juliet, lovely friend,
our
and
resided in this
wish
rectory, the
would
for,
be to Heaven!"
our
And
were
you
buried
here," returned
the decorate odorous
amiable
to friend, pointing
"
the graves,
I would
as
tomb
"
with
"
these."
wish,
OCCASIONAL.
Here
Far The
let from
me
rest
"
In
this
of the
a
the tumults
energies of life,
Pleas'd
resign.
rude, woods,
my which that
rear
Those And
mountains
those dark
their their
heads
so
high,
screen
giant sides,
snows
:
Should
And that
shield
monument
from rolls my
northern
unseen
wild
murmur
stream, which
music
silence
near
below,
grave.
"
Should
As Ah
humble
in oblivious ! how
repos'd,
my
at
delighted, were
some
peaceful spirit,
Should
sweet
maid,
midnight's solemn
approving moon,)
soft repose, her
my tears
hour,
(Led by Approach
Pleas'd The In
rose
the
radiance
of th'
that
long, in
water
I have and
with around
woodbine,
that
tomb,
grow
;
chaste,
from
circlingclusters
scattered from
"
While
lap
she
flowers
around,
Cull'd, in
Of
VOL.
some
evening,
:
the
collage door
would
good peasant
11.
All around
P
smile:
"
210
every
wood
to
and
every
what
mountain
wild
sigh
be
so
know,
good
from
tomb,
with it
pleasure
was
and
"
regret,
My
heart would
whisper
Juliet.
CLXXVI.
the defects of the dulness
When
we
have
been
annoyed by ignorance,
of
lettered un-
the imbecility, of
conceit of
pedantry,the
the observe
arrogance
pride,or
a
offensive
men,
of impertinence
fool:
"
when
we
with gifted
an
fine
more talents,
solicitous to
nourable ho-
and reputation,
their prostitute
becoming
the rich:
of
"
panders
when
to
we
to
are
of passions the
malice
man
man,
and
the beholding in
our
baseness
of
woman
to woman
when,
intercourse
with
the
own
world,we
with their
becoming,
as
it
scavengers
to
dependentsof
folly: when,
or
among
the
orders abject
we vulgarity
(whose
*he
information
extends their
no
farther, than
reputed folliesof
and associates,
whose
211
is industry
exerted
only
we
in the
of propagation
men
their errors,)when
observe
of this
temptible con-
in
vain
reduce
the consequence
of others to
littleness,
"
the
glen,and
CLXXVII.
When
you
behold
and genius
tue vir-
and ignorance
by the world;
an
when
age, from
fort com-
into sliding
one
indecent
old
without
having derived
without
maxim practical
one enjoying
solid
you
when
serve ob-
characters, to
looked
an
whom
the
world
has
long
up
for
honest
independence for
a
the title:
"
meretricious when
men,
splendour of
the
a
dishonourable
on
whose
on
characters
ironical
mottoes
escutcheons,
employment: dignified
catch
when
sacred
the
and
and station,
belonging to
are
that
the
ministers
my
admirable
master, who
v
said," Take
212
yoke
and
upon
you,
and
learn of me;
the
for I
am
meek
lowlyof heart*;"when
before
"
Rector,offensively
"
inflated with
pranks
that e'en
angels
order
weep;"
of
when
envy,
nature,
by weeping
others
when
when rejoicing,
weep
when
folly
with rapture, at the occasional weaknesses smiling, of genius, or the unconscious of misconceptions
excellence:
"
when
men,
whose
only qualifications
influence
or
arise from
wealth, from
from
rank, usurp
or
the chair of
ing stretchwith
relaxingthe laws, as
accords
to
passionor convenience,induce
is of
no
"
regret there
descend
your
the
margin of
the
which river,
washes the
emblem
to
you,
meditation
enjoyment from
templation con-
of the future!
CLXXVIII*
As
grate-
Mat.
29.
214
;
"
And
never
will Colonna
an
subsidinginto
which
the beautiful
broad
time, the
the
expanse
ocean,
opening into
a tain, moun-
Atlantic which
from
a
top of
and
commanded
long
of
almost
limited un-
prospect of the
and
coasts
Devon,
Holmes,
set, Somer-
Cornwall
the
isles of
Caldy, Inon,
and of
Lundy,
with the
bays of Oxwich
"
and
a
Carmarthen
and
Rosilly: where,
could
be
with
single
glance of
line
of
the
eye,
observed the
the whole
coast,
stretchingfrom
the
to
point
near
Aberthaw,
Carmarthen,
of
along
even
shores
St.
of
Glamorgan
and
Gowen's,
east
in the county
to
Pembroke:
and
while,from
mountains, of various
heights,presented extremity of
shire Brecknockwith the
of
themselves,in
the
the
northern
appeared
clouds.
"
to
mingle
themselves
After
observingthis prospect,
the
till the
mind, was
to
wearied, Colonna
describe her
tions. sensa-
requestedhis companion
"
"
I
"
cannot
define
pause,
but
"
I feel astonishment
a
of fear;
but
rapture, which
in
some
which,
measure,
resembles
215
what
when felt,
I firstheard
"
an
anthem, channted
sensation I cannot
from
in Hereford
cathedral.
This
as
describe,but
a
it appears,
my my own;
mind
to superior
over
soft,pensive
me
stillness steals
senses
inclines
to
sleep."
"
After
meditation Co-
for
some
of enquired
were
lonna,whether
for
original,
so
she
had
never
inclination poetical
as strongly
that moment.
"
As
from I view
this yon
rock,
waves
at
What
awful
on
wonder,
the
sublime
soul !
"
Steals
pensive stillness
"
The
lines
are
so
good, my
not not:
dear
said CoJuliet,"
lonna, "
are
that
I will
enquire,whether
I know
"
they
or strictly original
you
they
are
so,
and
it is sufficient.
of
a
He
who steal,
*
is unconscious
in
theft*."
the of sea, the and the of into
Florus, sinking
the upon
at
sun,
into
minds
soldiers
Decimus
bombast.
omnes
"
Brutus, aiming
Decimus Brutus
sublime, degenerates
Gallasciae
populos, formidatumque
victor
oceani littore
flumen si qua
oblivionis convertit
peragratoque
quam cadentem
prius
in maria
solem, obrutumque
et horrore
aquis
ignem
non
sine
deprehen-
216
CLXXX.
Recurring,my
of your
Lelius,to
me
the recal
cumstanc cirto
melancholy, let
your
recollection, that, as
and
one
Melancholy
the the
is the
Sorrow
and
of offspring
may
"
other
be
productiveof long
one
and
lasting happiness.
is will be
be
No
an
will
venture
to
hardy enough
tial essen-
to
of productive
good :
"
Sweet
are
the
uses
of and
adversity,
venemous,
"
Which,
Bears
like
the
toad, ugly
yet
precious jewel
in its head.
Plato
gives
it
as
opinion,that
man,
all
virtuous
his
advantage,either
of existence
:
"
present
assured
or
in
future
state
am
of justice it
a
this
solatory con-
doctrine, that I
on
esteem
duty,imperative
polemics,to
Curtius
wave
every
disputed point
of the
awe
dit.
"
Quintus
gives
an
account
at
and the
prehension ap-
of Alexander's
near
soldiers Indus:
"
the
sight of
ocean,
the
opening
when in
of
the
they
tide
had
.were to
surprised
vise been !
"
and
as
alarmed,
they height
!
"
observed
the who
so
high,
thirtyfert
to the
They,
of the
only
accustomed
tranquil waters
Mediterranenn
217
in
in theology,
men
in the persuasion,
the
misfortune, occurringto
will times
"
root, which
a
than
thousand
with
the evil
inflicted. previously
Explorant
Nittitur
ad
adversa laudem
viros,perque
aspera
duro
"
Silius Italicus.
CLXXXI.
As
sooner conscience,
or
venges relater,
herself upon
to
those,who
does
have
had the
folly
wound
her,
so
happinessrevenge presumed
the
and
to
name
herself
upon her
all those,who
name
have
and
her
with qualities
"
happiness,
other,as
dantry pe-
Lelius,are
is from
as
distinct from
each
and learning,
oratory from
logic ;
ference, difand
between
are
so
all of
often
as
confounded, there is
between
wide
earths and
insects plants,
animals. the
"
Pleasure
;
consists in the
indulgenceof
senses
mind,
"
and
While
the
was
soothes
us
into
content, the
other, as
its
observed finely
"
stings by Tertullian,
know-
to
death.
-Philosophy,teaching the
G18
teaches
the know
a
an
argument
endingin
just
with
as
fails to reward
measure
her followers
: happiness
"
a
one
commensurate
of
and
as the philosopher,
Duke
a
de la Rochefoucault
trulyremarks, is worth
so one
thousand
grammarians,
be
moment
of real of
happinessis to
"
preferred
to
thousand
pleasure.
He
be esteemed
CLXXXII.
honest
can
never
an
wdl-wisher
of
who society,
or
would
take
fear from
rob
unmerited
misfortune
"
cheapest consolation.
steals
of
our
Who
robs
our
purse, robs be
us
that,which
who
may
reputation,
againrecovered;but he,
our
and undermines
the love of
Heaven, takes
all consolation
and
all
hope
who
"
Were
metan, Mahotill
to
believe in
was an
Mahomet,
told
and
a
he
impostor,gave
than his.
"
better
our
nobler
us
creed
our
Why
will
us
rob sceptics
return
of
diamonds,
and
give
pebblesin
CLXXXIII.
?
"
True
219
dogmas, which
of in return, is the
would
undermine
the
happiness
value of
jects, obciting ex-
millions, without
as
leavingan
the
adequate
it is
to grateful
as soul,
one
highestenjoyments
worthy
an
of life
to
meet
with
of
our
esteem,
and
"
capable of
In the
honourable
admiration.
vation culti-
of
it,my
wealth
Lelius,you
can
will find
enjoyments,
neither which the
more
which
no
purchase ;
can
of which
; and
nor treachery
envy
deprive you
has world
this
the
more
seeks
render
you
miserable,the
you
will she
struggleto
of
render
happy.
"
It
to
was
was
knowledge
to
a
Colonna
reply
quently freme,
waspish
such
be
neighbour, who
Nature
annoying him,
with sir, should
a
has endowed
in
had
danger
she
you,
"
joyment, en-
not to
kindlyblest
as an
me
with
such
an
enemy my
as
act
occasional pungent
like other friend,
been
to
palate." Philosophy,my
has good characters,
the weak the and
great and
taken highlymisthe
by
subtle.
"
by wantonly injured
was
As
the
wolf
fabled
to
have
rowed bor-
fleece of the
every
sheep, so
age,
have
the artful
of
and
of designing,
assumed
the robe
factitioussplendour.
220
imposed upon
of the
extent
the
and credulity
"
such
an
has this
success
imposturebeen carried,and
the
with
such
has
empiricismbeen
and been
attended,
as
that she
Philosophyherself, pure
is,havingso
immaculate with
long
associated
been
such
dishonourable
companions, has
total dissolution.
"
in urgent
danger of
CLXXXIV.
above from
every
phcenix
her
own
Deceived
by
the
of gravity
the
thought, and
conceives
sterious.
"
consequent
be
to philosophy
Totally ignorant,that
affectation
real science
is for
mistake
mystery
of
knowledge
for the
being sufficiently
of nature
to
know,
that mystery
and
pedantry are
nothingbut despicable
of
for hiding-cloaks
rance igno-
and
nonsense.
"
spurious
"
association of
The
real with
at
war
fictitious with
a
philosophy.
an
always latter,
truth, like
slender
verted in-
pyramid stands
upon
and basis,
222
or a naturalist, logician, yet is he not the less either liberal, modest, or charitable :" so, for being is not the less philosophic, For his mind who,
be
"
making
human
allowances
for the
natural
of imbecility
nature, and
knowing the
influence of
nion, opiof
at
large. In
"
will he
be of
solicitous. anxiously
the obtaining
a
An
over-
leaning desire
man,
we
esteem
of every
meet, is
"
sure
indication of mental
becility. im-
He the
of whom
"
the world
speaks well
too
character,the world
too
often
motive,and
with the
ciating assofrequently,
mistakes virtue,
same
ostentation it mistakes
manner,
as
license for
and liberty,
freedom
of sentiment.
CLXXXVII.
worst
Neither ishe
of whom
"
to
be esteemed
the
of men,
certain
of description
persons
speak ill.
no more
Vice
and
will sites,
associate
other,than with^each
"
Egypt.
therefore, are,
of
enemies necessity,
the
other, with
virtue
this remarkable
that distinction,
own
of its
is nature,)
223
geniusare
unpardonable
almost duces in-
world
makes
us
war
upon
and excellence,
to
call those
any
unfortunate,who
"
dare be
eminent which
in
is sometimes
merit,is
virtues
of
as
as
lost by frequently
our
of
vices ;
our
moralists
of
the
to
more
age
has
truly observed,
and
exposingus
all the illswe
hatred To
be
do.
"
of, we
must
either possess
vast
or
fund
of
good
nature, be
:
"
inordinately weak,
Sir
"
cious viinordinately
was customed ac-
for, as
to
Roger L'Estrange
universal
a
say,
an
is seldom applause
"
two-
thirds of
scandal."
to
We
must
the
great, stoop
to
the
rich,flatter the
every
to
the
calumnies,which
not
unworthy knave,
has the
a
if he has
the baseness
to
vent, in-
constructive
baseness
a
circulate,
tempt con-
without !
"
look of We
must
abhorrence, or
be
smile of
rich !
"
and, above
all,we
"
must
not
of to independence aspire
character !
CLXXXVIII.
Three
of the
principal reasons,
224
why
so
men
of
and enlarged
liberal minds
are
beloved
a
in
tain cer-
they are
them
so
regarded
of
; and
unacknowledged sensation
of their
with which
from
the circumstance
being
"
difficult to be
a They require
playedupon
master's hand
minds. by ordinary
to
draw
from
"
them The
either touch
harmony,
of
melody,
or
even
euphony.
vulgar
elicitsnothingbut fingers
the discord of
: sincerity
standard,
tempt con-
their utter
Independence
character the
is
quality, capable
shall
?
"
which therefore,
have
so
to magnanimity
though few
of
men
admiring.
"
In
this
whither wilderness,
turn
of such
order superior
for comfort
For
them
to
love
be
mankind
which sympathies,
to
need
only
but
to
awakened,
draw
most
music exquisite
and and
; and
admire
love
few,
love, may
"
play
CLXXXTX.
and
error,
where
all the
homage
general
225
dignified,
fort com-
shall
be
theyturn
for comfort
?
"
Is any !
"
found, my
Lelius?
"
you
"
pause
Yes
"
Even
in this world
:
"
comfort,
comfort
can
be found
for
though,for
part, men
much
diality cor-
of limited
as
ugly and
deformed
a
hate noble
beauty*,
and
there are,
nevertheless, a few,
few, scattered
criminat dis-
cultivate
and
to
whose
esteem,
deserve
whose would
of
love,
not
excite Mount
whose
admiration,who
even
climb
or
Etna,
in the midst
of
winter,
in
men
toil
through all
of
"
the sands ?
"
Ethiopia even
of such
"
the midst
as
summer
The
"
esteem
these
"
one
friend this
one
and
one
God!
Oh!
world,
a
and
anxious
"
world, my
CXC.
*
Lelius,is
Riches and
the
after paradise
all !
rank, grandeur
conduct of .persons
a
and
We
to
may that
compare of
an
of this
Ourang
Outang,
species of beings,
a
shew
no
mercy,
"
when
Man
into
power.
tame
While
they
kept
but
in the
awe
and
subjection, they
an
and
submissive;
is
moment
their malice
"
inveterate,and
their
vengeance
is
plete. com-
VOL.
II.
226
the
gaze
and
admiration
in rags but
"
or
that
or
vulgar clothed
in
to
or
in
lawn,
purple:
"
what
gives
gout
enjoyment ?
is
a
what, but
our
felix
which infelicitas,"
mingled with
on
a
fate, and
which
Does finds
operates
any
not
one
as
bitter
weary
palate.
"
recline upon
the bosom
of
love, and
his
he recals to mind
?
"
the
difficulties of his
earlypassion
Thus
Sadi:
"
How
I've The
oft, when
wept
my
far
from
her
lov'd,
away
night sleepless
thou hast
!
"
anguish, Sadi,
Augments
the
prov'd,
"
raptures of to-day !
As
well may
we
expect
has first
to
gather the
as
fruit of the
to
vine before
the tree
blossomed,
of tasting
expect
"
happinesswithout
is a cavern,
my
vicissitude.
all must
"
It
Lelius,throughwhich
the
pass
before
they enter
never
Elysian fields.
been
Had
FlaTheoof
vius Boethius
imprisoned by
his visited the
on
deric,he
had
never
written
never
Consolation
Grotius
Hague,
composed
his Treatise
the Truth
227 of the of Religion.In the plenitude absolute authority the haughtiest that ever despot, has no a throne, to imprison disgraced or power enthrall the mind. The dead to all the captive,
" "
Christian
world
but
and
cultivated noble
and
in delighting
the
beautiful
scenes
free.
"
mind,
is
far gathersriches,
or
than valuable,
either silver
round
his mental
"
eye
and
forests.
Those
now
ever objects,
with
remembered
charm melancholysatisfaction,
to
and he
a
repose.
:
"
"
From
nature
up
to
breathes
with
low and
solemn
of history
no
his wrongs,
securely
a
that satisfied,
so
prayer,
source
pure,
is
ever
frowned
are
of association
brought into
are
attached in his
he hears
youth,are
those
had
22S
power
to
charm
him, againtitillatehis
once
ear
; those
domestic
are
him, delighted
vass can-
drawn
;
while the
of
Poussin,and
to
decorate
the
good ;
he the
the marble
and rich,
woodbine
music
of the
torrent; treads,with
of the dead
solemn with
steps, foot-
the mansions
; or,
happy
reclines transition,
his
beneath
"
the
paternaldwelling.
he has lost truth is
Now
he becomes
or
of what
by imprudence,
seen
gained by
hue
;
experience ;
is prejudice
dissolved ; every
motive
medium
of
human
a
throughthe
the
of is
clear
of
faithful
mirror, and
mind
purged
"
errors,
by which
it has been
long abused.
CXCI.
Such
are
the
of advantages
brilliant
imaginationand
which
corrected would
;
"
judgment
almost
under
cumstanc cirthe
annihilate
which -circumstances,
an stimulating
begin by deadening,but
exalted and heroic
"
finish in
spirit.
230
that
act
so vipers,
hideous and
to
an
so
noxious
to
our
sight,
as
restoratives
so
emaciated
habit,while
neral mi-
mercury,
acids,becomes,
most
as
it is
the administered,
admirable all this to fine of
our
violent of
*
poisonsor
while
us
remedies
;
"
and
we
let recollection,
on
not
the forget
an
in the
canton
of chimney-piece of Friburg:
"
inn at
Brisack,
Antidotum
Yictrix.
"
vitas Si bene
patientia ;
vis
sola
malorum
"
CXCII. fire-side so
Do
we
ever
taste
we
the
our
as highly,
when
have
exposed,
frost and old
day, to
without ?
"
With
been
what
joy does
to
pilot,
and
tivity, na-
whose
youth
has
spent upon
the of
a
rough
his
boisterous
to
"
element, retire
placeof
enjoythe
What upon
rewards
meritorious
dustry! in-
comfort
one
hut, reared
the
ocean
Seated his
by
family,how
Art.
as delight,
Yid.
Argentum
vivuin.
231
he feels a few
remaining impulses of
recount
once
to spirit,
the
a
numerous
has
endured and
upon
distant
at
main!
"
winds
storms,
that howl
to
midnight, repose!
"
which
once
were
fillhis mind
to
now apprehension, a
is not shipwreck
"
by
thetic sympa-
pleasure*!
CXCIII.
sickness ?
"
Have how
our
we
been frame
tost
upon
bed
of
is
our
re-animated, when,
we
from escaping
chamber,
at
of
us
morning!
"
All nature,
song of
that
the satisfaction;
of
birds,the bleating
of
waters,
as
music
to
our
ears.
Nature, dispensing
it
were
the
most
agreeable perfumes,
every
are so
expands all
see,
while beauties,
sound ardent
we
objectwe
many
and
every
hear,
in-
of spirers
our
that
"
which gratitude,
distends
breast.
When
the
mind
weakened
by
severe
application ; when
sorrow,
heart, lacerated by
be charmed
CO.
acute
refuses
even
by
changing
Note
232
fortune*; and
which
from
when
a
we
would
not
hesitate to
for village of
that
vegetable +,
powerfulcauses,
other, than
the rural
can
more
liorate ame-
the influence
tone to
of the one,
givea
of
decided
the
view
fields and
adorned The fects ef-
meadows,
with the
peopled with
of assemblages
are
animals,or industry r
"
rural
to equal
:
that of the
Lydian or
storms
"
of music soothe
and of illfortune,
passion.
CXCIV.
friend?
"
Have When
we
lost
our
shall
"
respite
for consolation ?
Has
neglectedour
Pectora, longishabetata
Non sollicitas ponunt
hoc rebus felix miseros credere
malis,
curas
Proprium
Nunquam
Redeat
Tamen
sequitur vitiutu,
laetis.
"
Fortuna
licet, piget"
afflictosgaudere
surgens flere dolor sed
ex
Nulla
Hos
causa
jubet,
vagus
intro
"
oberrat, subitos
fletus j
nee causa
fuud"$jt
subest,
vultu
nolente
cadit.
"
Seneca.
Thycsth.
Note
G!.
233
merits,or insulted
our delight
our
virtues ?
"
What enchant
shall sight
our
eyes,
what charm
sounds
our
ears,
and
what
odours
senses,
the fields,
music
of torrents, and
nature
animated
visions of
scenes,
"
?
"
For, in
no despair,
like
those,can
viate alleof
the couch
vernal
morning:
at
by
appointe disthe
affection, or
world and
presumes
too
those upon
our
times,when
our
much
misfortunes,
where
too anticipates
we
little from
courage, in the
shall
look
our
for
but consolation,
tion cultiva-
of
better
our
feelings ; in
the conscious
and
of
scenes
in those awful
which, in
"
so
powerful a
manner,
elevate the
or
fancy?
than the
while
points nothing
to
by stronger
eternal
more
association undeceptive
glory,
splendour tranquil
"
of
an
eveningsun,
If
moment at
"
in purple ! blushing
CXCV.
of the
any
time,my days
of
makes
the present is
to
too
much
for and
human
firmity incon-
bear
with
resolution
with
234
me
among
the rocks
or
of
Dynevaur,
the
one
the towers
Careg-cennon,while
of the waves, and whisperings, sounds.
rove on
"
echo
the
other last
the
to
Climb
the the
the of
summit
banks
wild and
of
a
among
wild
and
sequestered
per whisso
glen, and
peace worth
an
melancholy consonance
heart.
"
your of
One
hour,
past, is
every
"
age
common
existence!
and
step,
my
so
taken, is
one
step towards
are
heaven.
Ah
the
of feelings
sorrow
subdued,
scenes so
of
so
admiration
excited
"
in in
grand
impressive!
lose in the
Scenes
which, while
silence all
causes sense
indulging, we
of
sorrow
meditative
most
rious se-
of
into
insignificance.
"
The
mind,
elevated
those the
littlecares, which
and
agitate the
ambitious,
up
malignant
the
proud, looks
with
with awe,
heaves
conscious
we
as gratitude,
God,
contemplate in
of is eternity,
a
those father
"
to
the fatherless,
and
235
CXCVI. couutry, he
But
from
the found
beauties
to
of the
fine
most
will be
derive
not soul,
poisonedby
by
miscuous pro"
meretricious
refinements,is
with
as
untainted
common
society.
more
manner,
can
poet is
a
mated esti-
by those, who
and whose
boast
kindred
spirit,
minds
are
his*,so
scenery, corrected
joyment en-
elevated
fancy,and
In
a
judgment.
attends
the youth,
ever
cultivated
is imagination,
"
by
the most
beneficial results.
and
to
It contributes
a
licacy, deinspire is
encourage
taste
for whatever
or
in morals when
vating capti-
In the
manhood,
realities too
not
mind,
were
it
for the
a
quisite ex-
enjoyments, which
taste
th6
of palate
polite
is enabled
a
to
lifewould
appear and
weary
pilgrimage. When
avaricious
and
the the
ignorant
envious
the unfeeling,
omnium eorum,
"
Quorum
ad
proxiine
tur
divinationem interpretantur,
viden-
acvedere
236
their to display opportunities
much
possess
so
many
so
and passions,
inclination
to
palsy the
exertions should
be
of
tortured industry,
we by anxiety,
the
highlyqualified
to
Cicero, that
repose
we us once renounce more
offer to
cradle of
"
infancy,
would
sweet
the boon.
But, captivated
the imagination,
by the
of the
are
misfortunes the
by
enjoyments of
the
"
life is the
supersededby
old
are no
imbecilities
and
longer flattered by
longer
derive
nor exercise,
the credulities of
hope
of
if
they no
if
health and
fort com-
from
the perceive
no
brilliancies
colour;
they
extract
satisfaction from
of
novelty,nor
conscious
and
melt
with
the tendernesses
love,
sided, sub-
of ill-fortune have
enjoy a
of
honest succeeded
heart.
"
The
visions fairy
of
hope
are
recollections, by agreeable
better world
lull them
to
profound repose.
an
CXCVII.
admirer
of
Gifted
with
fancy, the
a
landscape feels
raptures of
238
are
not
are
admirers
deck
of scenery.
They
whether
;
people
every
or
grove,
every
object,
animate
and, havingformed
like
own
captivating picture,
this of
a
become of
are
their
creations.
to
"
For
faculty, they
mind,
which ard stand-
indebted
the
powers
brilliant imagination,
the
the
common
the
and
Plato
said of the
soul,are
like the
harmony
of
divine,Apelles
his
for
model;
in
describing her,Ariosto
Spenser would
of their
have
employed the
utmost
would temple,
rock, commanding,
the the shades
side,the
the
Ionian ruins
while islands, of
of
Athens,
Corinth, and
other.
"
of plains
Argolis decorated
her dwelt with
the
In
delineating
would have her
character, Maximus
enthusiasm
on
Tyrius
the her
of brilliancy
her
and sentiments,
the nobleness
239
CXCIX.
to
As
foil to
these
and beauties,
these
would
sometimes
have
representations, suspected that her charms her plans visionary, were meretricious, and her brilliant promises of so harbingers many disappointment.Not insensible to the objections,
doubted
"
which
the
may
be
raised
to
the cultivation of
we
fancy,the deference,which
of
pay
to to
the his
judgment
taste
Locke,
we
will
not
extend
; and
since the
imagination, well-governed,
it mellows
ameliorates
expands
would
the
love,
sublimes
virtue,who
admirable a so proud of possessing quality? The high enjoyments,which the is justly and beauheart feels in retirement," tifully as
be
"
observed
"
by
celebrated
the
Swiss
pher, philoso"
are
derived
from
touching aspect
of the
of nature, the
petuous im-
try, coun-
which an objects, compose take such complete agreeable landscape, sion possesof the soul,and so entirely absorb culties, faour
.that the sentiments of the mind
are
by
240
the charms
of the
imagination
verted coninstantly
give birth
sentiments." in
"
to
the
most
virtuous the
and
worthy
arrays
In
youth
and
imagination perspective,
wishes.
"
hope
forms fairy
every
our
brilliantcolours.
in
our
At
no
that bound
joy is
or projects
climbed, presents others,yet more height, and one comes bedesire, gratified, high,to overcome;
a
One
means,
more
by
which
youth expects
and
more
expanded
it rushes
indulge promising.
to
"
an
mind;
nor
boldlyon;
horse of
it climbs
the
mountain,
has
more
stops
"
to
the
impetuous*.
the of those youth, in aspirations has
a implanted faculty
CC.
whom of
are
of Nature
innate sense or an elegance, perceptive for, in the same feeling; manner, the
most
of harmonic
as
the
wires
of and
an
Eolian
tendv
bewitching
Stare
loco
nescit,pereunt vestigiainille
ferit 62.
Antefugani, absentemque
+ Note
gravis angula
cnmpum
241
music,so
To
certain
the
speciesof
finer
external
things,
"
Attun'd
organs
of the mind.
When
youth
has
lost somewhat
of sorrow,
of its elasticity,
upon
the effects of
joy and
minds
so
tuned, are
men
those,which
common
affect
of
"
Joy produces
of
thought; sorrow
which and With raises
woman
chastened
to
dignityof
rank
a
manner,
man
the
of
Petrarch
"
to
the elevation of
nature
her
perfumes, her
to
landscapes
has wounded them
of
to
charm, when
Stretched
the
the world
and feelings,
"
fortune upon
a
divested
a
favours.
rock, lulled
reveries beside
fall of
fountain, beholding
and
jestic, ma-
nature, here
there
gay, and
or elegant enchanting;
contrasted
charms
their
hearts,they resemble
a
long time
wandered
sudden, in
perfumes of
VOL.
II.
242
invite springs
repose.
to
to enjoyment,
admiration
and
CCI.
you,
my
Lelius,
be
whisper in
chastised
that those lead
that the
must imagination
by
the sober
dictates of
judgment, and
which pleasures,
it undoubtedlyaffords,
in giving ed unlimitif, only to disappointment, in all the wild fancy, wre indulge sway to our and
wanton,
free and
fettered, un-
all the
enjoymentsit promises."
argument
is correct.
Doubtless, my
"
friend, your
promiseyou
no
tion imagina-
solid
unless satisfaction,
sense,
it be corrected
"
by
reason,
good
order,and propriety. So
ever
our
corrected, the
to pointing
somethingbeyond
of
"
present
state
imperfection.
Nature,"
never
as
Longinus
to
mirably ada
observes, "
and grovelling
designedman
animal, but
in the
an
be
ungenerous
brought
as
him
a
into
world,
in
crowded
be
idle spectator,
but
spurred on
she
by
an
eager
of excelling, thjjrst
"
ardentlyto
this purpose
contend
in the
prizeof glory.
his soul
an
For
implantedin
a
ble invinci-
love of
grandeur,and
constant
emulation of
243
whatever himself.
not
"
seems
to
approach nearer
it that is, the
to
Hence
whole
piercing
"
speculationof
passes the
bounds
launches
Let
any
forth at
one
into pleasure
an
take
scene
exact
survey
which life,
account
in its every
is
conspicuouson
noble
nature
of will
he
ends
we
were
born.
to
"
the
a
impulse of
to
inclines us
mire, ad-
that ministers
but necessities,
the
Nile,the
*."
"
stillmore
the
ocean
It is this love of
to
the
our
of contemplation
raise
thoughts in
from
those
; and
which, even
to
time, are
supposed
"
have
had
Deity himself.
observes
in the true
with
all
the
of sublimity
Milton
Ere
and
the
Lucretius,
radiant
the
sun
Sprung
from
the
east, or
sect.
R
midst
vault of
uight
Longinus,
35.
"
Smith.
244
The
Ere Or
moon
suspended
her
or
sons
serener
lamp
mountains, woods,
wisdom lived
streams,
of
one men
adorned her
the
globe,
taught
the
the
lore,
Then
In The
almighty
; then
his unfathomed
forms
essence,
view'd
the
external
sun,
of created
things ;
nocturnal
The The
And Of
radiant
the moon's
and
mountains, woods,
wisdom's mien
them
streams, the
"
From he
the first
days,
on
divine
fix'd,
His What
admiration
he
; till in time
complete,
admired
into
and
"
Unfolded
Of
being.
breath
j
waves
life,informing
the green
each
organic
and
frame
Hence Hence
Ajid And
earth
wild
resounding
; warmth
light and
clear autumnal
and
cold
vernal
"
showers,
all the
fair varieties
things.*
Pleasures
of Imagination
.
CCIII.
And
yet,
agreeableas
are
of nature, the
scenes
more
has imagination
the power
our
to captivating
fancy,than
There
is
singular coincidence
a
of
an
thought
Hindoo
between
this
Nar-
fine passage
"
and
beautiful
one
in
hymn by
Sir
to
rayna,
The
spirit of
and
God,"
translated
remark
William
Jones.
"
It is curious
so
delightful to
resemblances of such
in poets difference
far removed
climate,and
"
wide
in
manners
education.
246 several
and
an
agreeablescene,
he
can
make
scents
new
richer
higher
of
colours, than
nature.
"
any,
concerts
that grow
in the
be
gardens
as
His
of birds may
as
full and
harmonious,
as
and
"
his woods is at
a no
thick
more
and
gloomy
in
a
he
pleases. He
in his cascades from
expense
can
and
as
easily
half
a
of precipice
"
high,as
of
twenty yards. In
nature
in his he
own
hands, and
he provided into
may
giveher
what
charms
pleases,
run
does not
reform
her too
much, and
excel *."
"
to absurdities, by endeavouring
CCIV.
this
manner
argument
of
men,
we
might
as
be
tempted,
expresses
it,to infer,that
the
more
the
picturesof
creations
of
poets,
substantial
more
and painter,
the
splendidvisions
herself.
of
imagination, are,
the
in
more reality,
than beautiful,
"
of productions
Nature
But, though
of
the
circumstance
man's in
not
bination com-
being able
to
view
we
nature
in detail and
too,
will admit
of the argument
for
Pleasures
of the
Imagination.
"
Paper
via.
247
the sake
as
of the
as an
A corollary.
"
proof, a decisive,
the it!
"
well
argumentative proof,of
mind
nity eter-
of
as
the
can never
is established
be
by
For,
Man
supposed to
the
have
arrived at he is
pable ca-
his proper
of
spherein
while universe,
tiful, more conceiving objects grand or beauthan those,which nature has thought proper
to
set
before
him, the
a
very
circumstance
of
of
his
to ability
conceive
combination
objects
viction, con-
the
to
eternal exhibit
architect
to
scenes
his
Michael
of his author
pupilsto
of nature
own
Angelo would never permit any exceed himself;neither will the permithimself
to be
outdone
by
any of his
creations.
"
The
no
proper
spherefor
bination com-
which
be
or objects
to imagined, superior
our
presented. If,when
at
friend Harmonica is
has arrived
the third
heaven,she
capableof
I would instantly somethingsuperior, imagining in the in the face of all the sceptics declare,
world,that
state
there
was
fourth
heaven.
"
The the
of absolute
is that,in perfection
which
finds of imagination, mind, havinglost the faculty sufficient exercise in the of its own contemplation
beatitude.
"
248
CCV.
most to
Shall nature, my
to objects
our
Lelius,present
and sight,
we
her
beautiful
refuse
look
upon
them
? shall the
wanderer, solitary
when
of
amid the grand and terrific scenery roving his soul fraughtwith stupendous Switzerland, forth into their farthest latitude
by
around objects
to
him,
those
shall
partakeof
scene
sublime him
cause emotions,be-
the and
before
reminds,in strong
his
as
of energetic language,
"
own
comparative
in the
No ? insignificance
! small
he appears
generalscale of nature, he wanders along the sides of the mountains,fissured into abrupt precipices,
with astonished the most
rapture, and
beautiful and
as
from
cragged rock,
scenes
enchanting
his his sight,
burst
unexpected on
the utmost
an
raised soul,
limits of awful
and
controllable un-
wonder,
bursts
into
"
ecstasy of wild
delight.
Never I
to
can
cease
be
for grateful
the
lime sub-
the summit
Snowdon!
"
I \"\ made
giveyou
to
an
of the
journeyI
"
once
that
narch mo-
of the British
Alps.
visitto the
CCVI.
After
paving
picturesque
249
waterfall of
Nant-Mill, we
set
on
out
from
small the of
cottage,
situated beautifully
"
the
was
a
side of
lake Cweliin.
The
a
morning
morning
August
the
"
not
breath
not
atmosphere, and
shelter.
"
tree
offered
us
mentary mo-
In all the
before
the heat.
"
been
so
oppressed with
the space
and
of intensity
an
for Climbing,
over
bogs, what, we
sometimes
over
arrived
at
had
earnestly
alas ! it the the
hoped, was
was
the apex
of the of
mountain, but
is called
merely
"
the
top
could
what
first
fine
of
station. passage
Who in
fail to remember
from
Pope,
imitated he
Drummond the
Hawthornden,
of man,
where
compares of
progress
in the attainment
science,to
the
larged en-
views, that
the eye, in passage is
are
before spreadprogressively
"
mountains? climbinglofty
The
whole
eminently beautiful.
"
Fired
In
at
first
sight with
we
what
the
the
muse
imparts,
fearless from
youth,
the
we
tempt
heights of arts,
of
our
bounded
level
nor see
mind,
behind
;
views
more
take,
the with
lengths
strange
advanc'd, behold,
scenes
surprise,
"
New
distant
of endless
science
rise !
250
So
we
try,
to tread
the
sky
eternal
the those
snows
already past,
mountains
seem
first clouds
the last j
attained, we
labours
tremble
of the
to survey
growing
lengthened
our on
way, eyes,
"
wandering
Alps
Alps
arise *.
Pope'sEssay on
Criticism.
CCVII.
which shrunk
rose
As
below
mere
we
ascended, those
bore
mountains,
of
from into
the character
:
sublimity, noble,
eminences
more others,
in the
proceedinghigher,
approach
road
we now
they appeared,as
be
a
no
to
us,
and
to
longerat
The
layover
down,
"
smooth,
mossy
heath, where
with
heat
some
sat
tirely en-
overcome
and
fatigue. After
us
time,the guideled
which
the
edge
of
precipice, nearlyfifteen
the bottom
of
hundred
depth,
green
"
at
appeared
that of cidedly de-
lake of I
as
and Llyn-y-Glas,
saw
a
Llyn Llydaw.
such
never
so precipice
dreadful
and this,
never
experienced
"
achingsensations
hands seemed
of
to
terror. imaginary
My
if I
feet and
creep,
and
I felt as
Note
63.
251
were,
at
that
the
point,ou
!
"
which
We
scene,
had
as a
not
much
time
to
contemplate
to
a
this
cloud
suddenly appeared
immense
rise out
of the rocks
globular
the
form, seemed
in the air ; and where place, tremendous
balloon,balanced
to
we
out
of this
scene.
Viewed
of
terror
from
excites emotions
unmixt sublimity, is
fear;
the
from
its
edge,
predominant.
for
a
In
latter
our instance,
thoughts are,
our
short
time, concentrated
the
to
in
mind,
heaven
upon
the
!
"
CCVIII.
and
The
difference
a
between
lookingup
by
the furnished
looking down
in Jefferson,
is precipice
account
well marked
Mr.
the
he
Marquis
rocks.
"
"
de Chastellux
of the
bridgeof Virginian
Though
bridge," says
a
he, "
are
in provided,
parts, with
have
parapet
to
men
resolution
walk
luntarily vo-
them
and
look
over
abyss.
"
You
to
fall on
your
feet,oreep
the
252
parapet and
this
look
over
it.
"
Looking
gave
me
down
a
from violent
about height,
"
minute,
from
head-ache.:
and
If the view
the
top be
is
painful
that intolerable,
extreme.
"
from
below
in delightful
the
It is
the
for impossible be
so
the
emotions,
from arising
sublime, to
the
so
they are
so
here, on
and
"
of sight
arch,
elevated heaven.
it were,
to
The
"
These
Havod,
that
the midst
of a
Mr.
wilderness! Johnes.
accomplished
CCIX.
The
with feelings,
which
we
view
jects ob-
of the above
the
to
theory of Mr.
of objects
terror.
confines of Lord
sublimity
and
Those
Kaimes
Dr. and
Gerard, who
Dr.
make
it to consist in
magnitude,
force," are
Blair,who
"
places it
Than
in
"
erroneous. equally
were we
the idea
of
Longinus,
that
to
associate
in^oetrywith sublimity
are,
of the material
no
world, (which we
to
however, by
be wider
means
authorised
"
do),nothingcould
from
the truth.
He
defines
it,
"
proud
eleva-
254
of Cader
Idris.
"
Below
"
appeared
Snowdon
those
merable innuall
mountains,by which
surrounded. sides,
"
is, on
These
appear
are
sometimes
studded
with
which lakes,
placed
of
clouds,which
"
in three different
our
heads
"
depictedon
in the
upon
the
mountains
"
"
they are
reflected
lakes below!
Some
;
some
of
the mountains
wear
a
round
their summits
triangular appearance;
"
while
like
pyramids.
whales
some
Now
or
they
couchant
seem
like backs
while
immense
apex the
of
more
and lions,
of
resemble
the craters
volcanoes,
elevated
lift their
above pointedspires
the
clouds, which
along
their
sides. gigantic
CCXI.
observe
our
the
place,where
we
we
paused
cold
to
prospect,
stopped to quench
a
almost wells
ungovernablethirst at
out
over
spring,
"
which
No
ever
of
the
side of deserts
the of
to
mountain.
traveller
more
the
Ethiopia
an
was
at coming rejoiced
we were
unexpected
fountain,than
"
"
at
this
spring. delightful
Fons," we
were
ready to exclaim,
255
Fons
Dulcidique
Cras
sine
"
floribus,
donaberis
haedo.
Well
may
the nations
of the East
consecrate
their
took
wells and
fountains !
"
Ere
we
we departed,
it with
our
praises
tain. Foun-
and blessings,
called it Hygeia's
Upon
masses
our
of crags and
est highits
peak
of
Snowdon,
the
of height
"
is 3571
at
feet above
Arrived
Snowdon,
Carnarvonshire, only
Vesuvius,
Carnedd Carnedd Moel Arrnn Cader
David, Carnarvonshire,
Llewellyn, do
do
340"
3390 2955
......
Merionethshire,
2944
2809
2598
2463
1806
1858 1852
256
summit,
scene
yond bepresented itself, magnificent of and is ! Indeed language language it would prewhen impotent, sume
on
the powers
poor and
to
weak
sketch
scenes,
which
has
placed his
and
thy broad
vator
matchless
are
Sal-
Rosa
!
"
Powerless
feeble
are
your and
spiratio in-
cretius! Lu-
CCXII.
five and
crags,
measure
From
this lakes.
"
point are
Seated
eye,
seen
more
than of the
to
twenty
was
on
one
it
long ere
the
unaccustomed accommodate
:
"
such
could elevations,
scenes so
itselfto behold
as appearing,
admirable
been
we were
an
the whole
war
universal the
of the
elements,and
of the
bitants onlyinha-
ruins
of
the world.
Woods,
rocks,
from
and
tains, moun-
which, when
observed
below,
bear
all
1840
.
."*.
1754
. . .
1720
.
1540 1498
Down,
Glamorganshire,
1099
257
the evidences summit
of
as
of
when sublimity,
are
viewed with
as
from
the
Snowdon,
blended
elevated
others,as
;
dark,
rugged, and
as
themselves
the whole
an
the resembling
"
tumultuous
of swellings
ocean. agitated
CCXIII.
The
extent
this
point,appears
are seen
unlimited.
;
The
four
kingdoms
the
at
"
once
Ireland!
can
forming
boast.
"
The
tains moun-
of Cumberland
those of
of
Ingleborough
observed
and
and
Penygent
of
county
Lancashire,follow
of
; then
the counties
a
Chester, Flint
and
Denbigh,
"
portion of
the
the county of
Nearly
of
whole
Merioneth
eye
along the
tainous moun-
diameter
take
in those the
and
triple-crown
sterile crag^
Cader
Idris
to
the
enormous
Carnedds
David
and
Llewellyn. Snowdon,
as
if he could
and the north
"
his
hand, right
Surely,"thought Colonna,
s
VOL.
II.
25S
sat
upon
these
crags,
when
he
formed !"
"
the
daring
world
Cader
the Idris,
eye,
pursuing
orbit,glancesover
for
a
the
bay
of
Cardigan, and
of the Rivel. of shores
reposes,
"
while,upon
it travels
the summit
After
observing the
the
indented
over a
narvonshi Car-
long
till in Blue
utmost
extremityof
of Wicklow mountains
the
Mountains
"
terminate
the perspective
Those
till
the
coast,
they
the
are
lost
the
at
eye,
which
ranging along
weary
wide
expanse,
length,as
on
of
the
boundless
and
"
journey,reposes
stillmore distant space
the
island of
Man,
the The
tains moun-
of Scotland.
intermediate
summits of
is
cupied oc-
by
hollow
the
sides and
masses
mountains,
narvon, of Car-
crags,
of
rocks, the
towers
glens,scattered
thrill of
confusion." magnificent
and
The
astonishment
for
never
the
transport of
; and
nerves
admiration
are
contend that
the
mastery
touched,
as
thrilled existence
were
before!
were
"
We
seem,
if
as
our
former
new
lated, annihi"
and
if a
epoch
commenced.
259 Another
world and
a
opens
to
upon
us,
an
unlimited
theatre
for
orbit appears
our
as itself, display
ambition.
"
In which
viewingscenes,
neither the pen the
so
nor
to decidedly magnificent,
the
pencilcan
which for
ever
do
and justice,
of contemplation
atonement
has the
power studied
of
making ample
the
a
having
limed, subpears, ap-
mankind,
it were,
soul,expanding and
of divinity, and spirit
with quickens
as
associated
same
with the
as
"
For, in the
manner,
shepherd
his
while
with sitting
prince,
holder be-
and in
far
more
unlimited
to
a
degree,the
higherscale
see
in
and
"
admire
one
the
ever
grandestof
mounted
a
the works
of nature.
No
but
this and
towering eminence,
a
he became
wiser
better
man
"
Here
the
unfortunate climbs
acquire
Snowdon ardent
confidence
as
an
and
the man,
who
he
descends,an
sun
desire
to
fall down
and
worshipthe
guide could
began
2
!
"
CCXV.
Before
our
induce form
us
to
to
around
260
us,
and
at
the moment
we
passed
murmured
over
the Red
among
Ridge,a peal of
mountains.
"
the
He,
passed
this tremendous
plosion ex-
rampire,will
and the
conceive of
danger
situation. the
"
The
Red
mountaineers,
pass, elevated
above
thousand in it,
some
feet above
the top of
places,is
by
a
than of
and
inclination slight
on one
nearlyas
"
as perpendicular,
the
over
the
The
now lightning we
flashed
our
heads,
the
thunder, as
the
"
of intensity
day, rolled
the finest
around
of Snowdon
so we
us.
the
ever
mit sum-
was
had
seen,
were
these
ever
the
most
"
tremendous
sounds, that
had
heard!
in history rendered famous by being the village, who insulated himself retirement of Vortigern,
upon
rock, lofty
moon,
a
since
brosius,the
threw
from rising
matchless
over glory
allthe heaven*-
2G2
"
All is still. To
"
the
north, a distant
tints gradually
murs mur-
appears shade in
remote
! its blue
"
deep
;
"
sable ; the
at
sea
thunder appears,
volumes
"
for
while, to
its
waves
lengthinsensibly
waves
agitate ;
"
swells
"
the the
break"
the
caves
cliffs
and
whitened re-echo
by
surf, while
the
roar
the
a
rocks
with
!
"
It is
scene,
which awful
Wilberforce
would
contemplate
with
a
with
pleasure ;
"
the conqueror
;
ture mix-
of horror
awe
and
terror
"
fear,with
and
dismay.
observed Scenes, like these,
common
CCXVII.
in whatever
with
ample
of
the
most
ideas enlarged
that
in infinity, it
to
which
the Eternal
to
centres, in whom
it is alone reserved Extension
whom
its boundless
source
measure.
"
being
which
of
the
our
most
expands
the
more
sion, comprehen-
is
most
undoubtedlythat, which
and
most
noble
Nothing, transporting.
vastness
can therefore,
indicate the
has
of those
man,
powers,
which
Nature
implantedin
several
than
the
branches
263
of natural that
ASTRONOMY.
and philosophy,
most
above
wonderful
of all the
sciences,
CCX
VIII.
What
were
Newton,
a
no
one,
but
those, who
are
conscious
of
flight
I
as
are soaring,
capable of conceiving ;
an
but from
am
the
smaller
impulse of
humbler
mind,
persuaded, my
much of the Eternal
those
The
Caius
Scipio, enjoyed in
by
had he ; "I
study
"
astronomy,
him
is well described
Cicero.
expire," says
almost said in
measuringthe
How often
heavenlyorbs, and
our
of this upon
earth.
"
sun
risen
meditations
overtaken
how
same
night
and
dicting preveral se-
him
in the
studies !
with
what
to
did delight,
us,
.himselfin
long
the
before
moon
of eclipses
CCXIX.
as delight,
You,
I have
my
have friend,
you
also
high
the
often heard
declare,in
264
cultivation of
own
astronomical
science.
"
For
my
turing ven-
part, I
a
am
littleout
"
sea,
I desisted
out
of
pure their
cowardice.
centres
Globes
and
planets, hangingon
heaven each
in the arched
void of
to
by
other
vast
single
by
the
comets,
were
for my
and
ray.
Passing the
to
of
place
the
I could
glance
various their
heaven, and
give to
their various
"
and appellations
calculate
courses;
but
when
I
was
began
to
that perceive,
;
the the
work
of creation of
one
always going on
produced
that
mination ger-
alteration of
system
the
with
almost
swiftness,there
exist
bodies,which,
have when
not
immensityof distance,
of
eye
the
even
astronomer
;
were
began
me
to to
that perceive,
if it
to
for possible
transport myself
the
to
most
distant of Systems,
vestibule
those
orbs, which
then
and be
on
are
suns
other
the
I should
of nature,
only standingin
the
to
Trontiers of
the power
the
to
have
"
Note
64.
265
soar:
"
became feeling
the
of faculty into
we
extended, wasted
know
a
seeking to
sea
too
much
and
voyage
out
to
without
compass,
"
become
bewildered
of the
and
confounded!
Like
our
the
peasant
"
Alps*, we
Where
gainnothingby
search:
"
be
-wise."
"
CCXX.
;
I have I have
;
searched
the
depths
of
verns ca-
thrilled beneath
high and
rocks
I have
and
contemplatedthe
one
vastness
the ocean,
sun
climbed behind
mountain, while
has been
"
continued
scene
and
glory:
mendous tre-
In those moments
and
I have
at
astonishment
the power
was
Being,who
such
alone
as
capableof
what the the
ing formare
giganticworks
those ; but
are
what
high
and
impending rocks,
an
giant
scale
heavingsof
summit of such
angry
ocean,
and
what
est proud-
of the
Andes, when
vastness,
placedin the
as
interminable
and
the
lancing, bacreating,
peoplingof
innumerable
so
globes?
"
In
contemplatingsystems
*
who infinite,
ran
Note
6-5.
266
forbear
exclaiming,
"
what
mole-hill is
who have
to
our
earth,and how
creep
so
proudlyon
far and
her surface*
our
!"
"
But
us
we
beyond
reach
let
descend
"
contemplateits seasons.
the !
"
many
are
enjoyments,which
can
their
afford that
us
What
of
be year,
own
more
ful, delightNature,
season
the
when
and
exhausted
by her
object in
are
renovated away,
gladness ;
the
trees
are
melted
bursting
with
with
every
flowers
of
colour,the
every
rollingwith
every
notes
temperance,
when
hill and
thicket
ringwith
CCXXI.
to
the modulation
of various
"
If
springis
the
most
son seadelightful
a
it affords him is
season
no
greater
to
multitude
images, summer
the
less
autumn
so
the
to
than Contemplatist,
of
more
is
"
What
can
be
transporting,
at
the
splendourof
with when
Mons.
the
sim rising
scene
this
season
the year,
;
*
all the
of
rural
industry
and the
it unfolds
subjectsfor
Lambert.
the
poet
66.
f Note
267
are painter
as
infinite
as
they are
transcendant ?
"
Sensible of these
of
Pythagoras,after
above
of their master,
as
prostratedthemselves
sun was seen
soon
the
"
disk of and of
the
the
horizon*;
his
Caniz, death,
one
of the German be
poets, upon
the bed
to requested
raised from
couch, in
"
order to
"
take
glorious luminary.
"
Ohr"
said
part of the
Eternal's
as
creation
can
be
more
so
beautiful
be
how this,
"
much Actuated
the Eternal
himself!"
by
at
the the
same
awful
of
point
to
death,directed
and he
to
carry
him
the
citygates,
that lattice,
place his
to
couch
the opposite
enjoy life,
might, even
of splendour
The
Persians, who
ages,
performed
the
same
ceremony,
form
"
did
of the
tion erec-
permit
themselves
i. s.
to
images
was
Deity.
"
Vid.
Herodot.
;
"
Lib.
the
131.
Such
of the of
second of
no
decreed sacred
to
the fire.
"
temples
says that
institution
erected
the
tarch Plu-
Romans
"
statues
their
to
gods
dence evi-
till about
of
U.
C.
This
is,however, contrary
"
the
c.
Dionysius
ofHalicarnassu*.
Vid.
Lib.
i.
II.
15.
af"8
CCXXII.
with
When
the
sun
has
the quitted
serene
world
are
reluctance,how
all
the
soul, partaking
awed
of the
of nature, and
by its
solemn
imagery,sinks
into
one
of those
affecting
which contemplations,
of its character, to
of
appear,
by
our
assimilate
"
etherial
the
eveningstar
her
behind gradually
among
the
clouds,the
has thrown
solemn
soul
so
mantle
over
is there, with
not
does
lift his
soul
to
An
a
evening like
which
this is described
by
Homer
in
passage,
imagery, picturesque
be
admired! sufficiently
As
O'er When
when
the moon,
clear breath
refulgent lamp
azure
of
night?
sacred
serene scene
Heaven's
not not
a
a
spreads her
the
light;
;
disturbs
deep
And
cloud
o'ercasts the
the solemn
Around And
O'er
her
throne
vivid
planets roll,
stars
unnumber'd
the
dark
trees
yellower
verdure
shed,
head
;
tip with
shine
silver every
the
mountain's
in prospect
all the
rise.
"
skies !
b. Iliad,
VML"
V.
oC"5.
270
affords
additional
our
ground
for
comparison, and
re-animates
hopes by promisingperpetual
spring.
"
CCXXIV.
winter,
by the
progress
of
time,
into existence
by the howling
torrents,
a
of storms and
rushingof impetuous
the the
giant,the
food
year,
ample
and
for
pleasureand
seated
content,
sympathy
association
us
around spells
!
"
When,
hopes, our
the
wishes,
world,
nothing
the
can
judgment,
induce
to
and
little to
imagination,
that the
the
good
of from
knowledge,they possess
others,
from
a
or
which,
distance,invades
and
of their tranquillity
retreat,
"
operates,
as
discord
in
soft sonata.
With
to
resume
winter, permitme,
those
my
Lelius,
lation reve-
subjectof
and
hopes, which
are so
taughtus,
which
exfinely
271
in amplified
which which
so
loudlyproclaimthe
teach
us,
would
in strong and
future
undoubtful
the the
vation reno-
in life,
the
pious and
in The
just.
This
be
misconstrued.
"
animals of
; the
shells ; the
insects and
fishes ; the
from
effects resulting
the laws
ticity elasattraction,
of
and infinite
repulsion ; the
vastness ; the
space
; the
nection con-
of divisibility between
cause
matter
constant
and
these
and
thousand
other wonders
is
immortal,but
that matter
is eternal also.
CCXXV.
of
as
But
as admirable,
or
are
nature, in combination
are
the streams,
are
the
valleys ;
and
the ocean,
and
wonderful
all their
are
spective re-
how inhabitants,
or
far inferior
dividua they,in-
of the
Man creation,
272
God
created
god HE created
man
in he
his
own
image
; in
amd
the
image
of
him.
male
female
created
THEM.
"
How
sublime the
glance
his
"
rulingfaculties !
the
"
"
image
terior :
does
"
of
Deity*. Contemplate
ex-
"
How
"
Deity,speak in
tongues
*
thousand
!
"
"
supremely,how
divine
be!
"
hast nevolently
"
in thyself displayed
man*
coun-
"
Survey
;
his the
soul-beaming,his
brow, thoughtful
"
tenance
the
penetrating
intelliHow !
a
"
eye,
"
the of
gence all
ray,
they
"
conspiring speak !
immeasurable fair,
what
harmony
'*
! the
single picture
"
"
of the
mind
within* !"
And
the the and
"
shall
being like
of
this be
mortal
f
"
shall
from
merest
lump
uninformed
clay exist
and continue to exist to eternity, beginning, Man, the powerfulagent in the hands of the
Herders
"
Alteste
Urkunde
des
Menschen
"
Geschlechts
J
.
Theil.
Holcroft's Lavater.
Introduction.
273
and Eternal,
all the
cease
in whom
are
contracted the
and
trated concen-
of perfections
world, shall
he
he
to
in which
"
beginsto
gence, intelli-
know
Is it
I possible,
and
say, that
Being,so
infinitein power
man
should make
all his labours ?
"
the
were
! destiny
"
The
tains, moun-
separate Hindostan
so
from
Thibet, present
*
prospect
dreadful decidedly
a
!
"
the Creator
of intellect be be
countenancer
no
future
on
existence,
the
grave,
"
lamp
of
life
glimmers
look
shall Kosciusko
for consolation?
No
has reparation
and the many
tunes, misfor-
crime of
in fighting
!
"
Where,
scription deany
The
mountains
of the which
of
Thibet
of
are
come
nearer
to
Milton's
habitation
travellers
the
Fallen
than Spirits,
"
other,with
acquainted.
o'er
many
dark
a
and
dreary vale
;
They
O'er
pass'd, and
many
a
many
region dolorous
a
frozen, many
fieryAlp
Rocks,
A
caves,
shades
of death:
"
universe
of death
Paradise
VOL. II. T
Lost,Book
n.
274
then, would
soul of
For for of
so
be the
man
of Heaven, justice
as
were
the
great a
body ?
it is the idea of
our
sorrows,
and
humanity in
a
the smallest
degree intelligible."
the soul
to
never
Being
to
over subject,
which it
"
desires the
dulity cre-
slumber, to
of
an
doubt
were
possess
atheist:
were
to
disbelieve in the
eternity
it;
of the soul
almost
we were
to equivalent
the acknowledgment,
meet
as
that much of
as
afraid
to
the denial of
God
is the
result frequent
for
to
it:
"
it is the
nature
believe the
CCXXVI.
is
"
That
spirit may
that matter
our
as
certain, as
may be
exist without
our
We spirit.
lose
as
legsand
arms,
and
perfectas
"
before.
"
Thus
is it
: we intelligence
may
lose
our
memory,
powers
of
and discrimination,
in fact labour
under
of vigour That
every
can
mental imbecility, abject yet the body remain firm and unimpaired.
"
body
can
exist without
mind,
us
teaches day'sexperience
soul, by itsown
275
has perties,
manner,
as
the power
to
convince
us, in the
same
of
mind
of the
"
body.
of
The
by its dread
is
and by annihilation,
which restlessness,
limits
secret
as
by planets gravitate
impulseto
which in
a
each
case
sure
and
unerring
does the soul gravitate union towards so an guide, with something,partaking of a divine quality : would Hemsterhuis for, as Mons. say, a single of the soul towards aspiration somethingnobler
and
far better
than
forms itself,
greater ground
ence of the exist-
Deity, than
"
demonstration.
to
We
nothing
man
in
nature
perior su-
man;
not
nothingin
is the
most
superiorto
in
the
"
is it
excellent
quality,
is the
be perfection,
continuance longest
sense,
that matter
longer
,?
"
life than
we
which spirit,
two
gives life to
matter
If
possess
substances, one
t
of which
us gives
276
in pleasure
not
to
more
the
the
more
other,do
lent, excelthe
we
prefer the
that,which
one,
is the
"
is less
And
shall not
Deity reward
of
?
"
himself
partakes of
were
his
own
essence
not,
he to act kind
of
contrary
suicide
on
to
this
own
rule,be committinga
excellence
?
"
his
Shall
to
As
suppose,
or
there
are
no
natural would
causes
that the
universe if the
be
capable of
created
organicharmony,
and who alone is
and infinity,
to
who architect,
it,
capable of turningspace
into
into
time
"
eternity, no
my
exist.
Yes,
St. friend,
Peter's is
still
ported re-
remains
Angelo
world
dead:
"
"
But
to
the
only
is
he
dead:
Angelo,will
has mouldered
"
the
sublime
St. Peter's
ments. monu-
In
Lelius,let prosperity, my
of presumption spirit ;
"
this reflection
chide the
in adversity,
permitit to
acting as
a
check
every
of impatience, feeling by
a
nepenthe to
Thus
wounded
spirit.
"
CCXXVII.
far had
written, when, by
278
CCXXVIII.
death
an
Why,
my
do friend,
we
consider
"
indeed
or
probableeffect
?
"
of
association early
to
vitiated education
were
am
inclined
believe,
consider
we,
a
when
children, taught to
as only
cavern,
throughwhich
in
the young
must
necessarily pass,
did we,
our
in their road
: happierregion
manhood,
the hail
a as it,
consider of
death
rest ;
as
the
sister of
sleepand
to
mother
a
were
sliding
to
other an-
from
tumult,and
old, as
translation
country, where
and rendered eternal
our
their
: were
youth would
we,
be renewed
stages of
should
we
thus existence,
creator
consider
terrors
as
it,
a
not
hail this
as
an
of
?
rather friend,
than
enemy
CCXXIX.
This
of
is
we
speciesof philosophy,
but
*,
however,
which
of
know
little: in the
"
present state
The That
opinion,
and
tnosl
weariest
loathsome and
a
life,
penury
were
imprisonment,
Can
nature,
paradise
"
To
we
ill.
sc.
I.
279 It would
be
to
well,my
if Lelius,
we
were
to
deavour en-
divest ourselves
of this
popular error,
to
accustom
ourselves
of
regard
a
death,
instrument
as being,
from emancipation
frailand
our
anxious
the
only means
to
of
vating reno-
youth,and
as
translation
perpetual
joy."
This
of
is
taughtus by
riety va-
organ,
goodness of Providence,of
and
of the
mind,
of spirit. immortality
On
these
imposing subjectsI
and
to
was
about
to
multiply remarks,
the
warned library,
adduce
stillmore
sive deci-
when evidences,
me
Harmonica,
to
steppinginto
"
"
desist.
You "the
now
have
sun
written
the
moon,
"
at
the mountains."
"
And
whither
would
you
lead
me
?"
enquired
"
"
I would
lead you
to
the
she hermitage,"
re-
280
turned
"
the
waterfall
will
murmur
in
the
most
agreeable
shine
most
manner
after
the
rain;
the
the
moon
will
beautifully
we
through
the
'
trees
in
;
the
bower,
there
are
which
call
wood-pigeon's
nest*
roses,
and
lilacs, thither,
and
jessamine
seating
will
listen
in
ance abund-
let
;
us
walk
and,
we
ourselves
the
upon
the
moss,
sometimes
to
nightingale,
listen
to
and
sometimes
the
nightingale
shall
us."
"
END.
NOTES.
Note
1,
page
5.
lb
an
i, in his
admirable
them in
picture
as
of
the
Loves
themselves
on
and
the
on a
Graces,
beautiful
of
a
represents
enjoying
evening,
"
valley, reclining
them
the upon
banks the
rivulet.
several
"
One
are
of
is stretched him
to
grass;
couch
beckoning
will not!
"
quit
his
rural
xxxvi.
but
he
Vid.
Dupaty.
Lett,
Note
2,
page
10.
Of confers
all
the
writings
him the
of
most
Pope,
the
following
"
letter
upon
honour.
Dear
Mr.
Gay.
to
your
to
native
me
soil!
welcome
to
! welcome
! whether
returned love
in
glory,
with
court
interest,
the
and
fami-
282
of liarity
or
hopes, agreeable
the
:
changes
whether
fortune, and
a
doubtful
for the
a
future
returned
triumphant whig, or
and
share
warm
ing despondto
welcome
If
happy,
you
am
to
in your
corner
elevation; if
in my
unhappy,
and your any your
serve
"
have
at
"
stilla
heart,
at
retreat
Binfield
are
in the
a
worst
or
of times
service.
man,
If you it
a
can
tory,
I know
proceed
from
to gratitude
few
who people,
endeavoured
never
you,
If
and you
whose
are
a
were politics
your
whig, as
side
and
are
an
I rather
hope,
know
"
and
as
and principles
mine of
(asbrother
poets)
you
bias
to
the
I liberty,
will be the
an
honest know
man,
inoffensive
one.
Upon
much fore There-
whole, I
you
as
of being so incapable
of either party,
once
to
be
good
you
"
for
nothing.
"
more,
whatever
are,
or
in whatever
state
you
are,
"
all hail!
Binfield, Sept.23,
1714.
3,
page
11.
of the
"
Swiss
no i:?ij?y
means
cently re-
acquiredone.
tian
The
inhabitants
of the
Rhae-
Alps
were
their ardent
love of
tatem
in liberty
Barbaros, quilibersemorti
tueri vita et
NOTES. devovisse
2S3
videbantur, modo
non
essent
liberi
et
servitute
moreren-
recusabant,si liberi
voto mortem
quiquasiconcepto
Who
honestam
in lima-
bertate oppetere,quam
in servitute from
lebant.
"
can
refrain
loss
this noble
as
an
Gibbon says
historian ?
I should
"
have
two
embraced,"
hundred
periodof
of the
years ; the
association
three
peasants of
Alps
the Helvetic
have
body
in
century.
"
should
scribed de-
and delivery
victoryof
of their
have
never
shed
:
"
the
blood laws
field of battle
states
The
:
"
and
manners
The
of splendidtrophies Italian
wars,
trian, Aus-
Burgundian and
of
a
and
the
nation,who,
has been
guard
the
"
blessingsof
It is
to
peace,
with
the
some
sword
one,
of
freedom."
with
rare
be
hoped, that
of
animated
the the
an
ardent
love
an
and liberty,
giftedwith
yet
rescue
of qualities
historian,may
celebrated
heroic
deeds
of that
people from
the hands
of the annalist.
4,
page
13.
marks expressively
the
"
"
comparative
The
characters
times/'
284
NOTES.
"
says he,
are
bad, certainly
what
when
men
are
not
mitted permuch
to
do
worse,
when
"
they are
thing
they please."
Note
Iona
5,
page
15.
is
small the
island,in
west
the
Atlantic
ocean,
parated se-
from
a narrow
point of
the
"
by
It is
to
channel, called
three miles
"
of I.""
half
a
about
a
in
"
length,and
The view
mile
mile
in breadth.
"
Iona," says
very
bounds
an
Mr.
Pennant,
;
as
we
turesqu picthe of
the
east
that,
which
Sound,
a plain,
exhibited
beautiful above
variety ;
the water, sacred
extent
little elevated
and
almost
covered with
the
with
the
ruins of the
and buildings,
"
remains
these the
stilluninhabited
beyond
narrow
rocky hills,with
and
numerous
between,
to
enough
take
his
walk." solitary
;
"Pennant'1
Voyage
rical Histo-
Account
ancient i"ftlie
Note The
on
6,
says the
page
20.
"
halcyon,"
the sand
St. Ambrose,
shore
"
lays her
"
eggs
by
in winter.
From
NOTES.
to
enchantingscenes
in her
of
nature,
the
mind
must
:
be
"
uncorrupted by avarice,
sensibilities ;
in her
or sensuality
ambition her
quick
;
elevated
"
in
sentiments
who
and
devout
fection af-
He,
possesses
such may
exalted almost
powers
of
perceptionand enjoyment,
say, witk
the poet,
I You
care
not, fortune,what
rob
me
you
me
deny
cannot
cannot
of sweet the
Nature's
grace,
You
shut
windows
shews
constant
of the her
sky,
Through
You The Let And Of
which
Aurora
bar my
brightening face;
trace at
eve :
cannot
feet to
streams
woods,
health I their
the my
lawns, by living
nerves
and
finer fibres
brace,
;
"
toys
to the
great children
can me
leave
fancy, reason,
virtue, nought
bereave."
Thomson.
Note
8,
page
32.
Cowper
I
has
versified
this idea.
praise
the
Frenchman,
his
remark
was
shrewd,
How
But
sweet, how
passing sweet,
a
is solitude!
grant
me
still
friend
in my
i^?treat,
"
Whom
I may
whisper, solitude
is sweet.
The Balzac
poet
:
"
probably alludes
to
an
observation
of
NOTES.
u
287
une
La
solitude
est veritablement
un
belle
chose; mais
a
il y
auroit
d'avoir plaisir
ami c'est
fait
une
comme
vous,
qui
on
put
dire
quelque-fois, que
ii.
belle
chose."
"
Let. chois.
Liv.
24.
Note
9,
page
38.
Colonna,
called upon
once
travelling through
in that he host
As
shire,
of the
was
one
finest waterfalls
some
country.
"
time
of
value
to
him,
his
could
onlypartakeof
made lately
slight
a
repast, which
historyof
some
in draining
An
Colonna wish
to
ventured
to
to
hint,
that he
"
"
should the my
be
directed
the
waterfall.
is
a
Oh!
"
waterfall dear
! ah ! true"
there
at
waterfall,
of the go
but
sir,it is
almost
the bottom
!" valley
surely you
the
would and
a
not
attempt
to
there,
mind
among
terfallwa-
long
"
grass
the
take
walk
and
I will shew
"
you
something,
you
"
that is
no
reallyworth
seeing,
a
and
where
will be in
precipice." garden
!
"
With
that
he
led
"
into
"
his
"
There,"
said he,
"
is a you
garden,I plantedand
may
sir !
"
gravelledmyself.
much
as
rove
about,
as
you
please."
see
But,
I have
led travel"
several
miles to
the
and waterfall,
unless"
288
NOTES.
"
"
Oh,
!
"
the The
waterfall
commonest
!
"
any
body
in
can
see
the
terfall wacan
fellow
the country
do
that," but,"
(pausingwith
I do
assure
solemnityof
sir, very
few
"
have
an
opportunityof seeing my
garden!"
Oh
quit those
mountains,
were
bid
those
not
vales for
adieu
you
!" !
"
Those
lovely landscapes
made
Men for
of this order
may
well
be
ludicrously content,
the
ne
plus
ultra
own
of
ambition.
Living
is
in
fool's
paradise of
their
there creating,
not
more nightingale a
captivated
its
its
are
own
peacock
of
more
delighted
stamp,
when it is served obhave
own
Men
this
to to
in all
countries,
which
nor
but
reside
among
scenes,
they
the
neither
the
feelings to
become
admire,
to ability
estimate, they
more infinitely
ridiculous.-"
Note
10,
page
40.
It
was
well of state
observed
has
not
by Cowley,
so
that
much
"
Ashless
public,
is that
as
wise
man
in
private.
How
beautiful
where he
passage, and
in this
neglected poet,
the
ease
compares
contrasts
and
comfort
of retirement
NOTES. with
of
slavishattendance
the
on
on
the
misery
dependingon
man
great. The
character, drawn
of the most
of this amiable
by
Dr. range
is one Sprat,
of
: biography poetical
His
may
e'er
by
me
you,
the
sweetest
best,
books,
and
libertyand
rest,
fountains,fields long
as
and
floods, forsaken
not
me.
"
be,
As
Note
11,
the
page
45.
This
canus
Cornelia and
was
daughter of ScipioAfriGracchi.
"
the mother in
of the
Her
at
letters
were
and published
are
generalcirculation
been
Rome.
for the
not
"They
said
to
have
perfectmodels
lamented,
that has
It epistolary writing."
is to be
verified.
"
Nam
Gracchorum
mullum eloquentice
coniidis"e tissimus
accepimusCorneliam
in
matrcm,
est
docctijus
sermo
posteros qaoque
c.
Quinctil. Lib.
oral.
s.
I.
104.
1.
"
See
also
in.
de
claris
211
"
"
Plin. Lib.
14.
Note
"
12,
in
a
page
47.
to
Cur"
VtfL.
says
II.
he
letter
V
Atticus,
*"
cm:
2p0
ocellos Italia,villulas
all the
"
NOTES.
video ?"
meas
non
"
They
"
were
distinguished by
Alterum
term
the
names
of his works.
one
Pliny,
lumen.
"
Nat.
The
appears
incongruous sufficiently
present day.
Note
13,
et
page
48.
qua Mo
of
cures
nos
ex
omnibus
"
in loco the
conquiescimus.
pictures ever
Wilson
;
"
Epist. ad
Att.
in
5.
"
One
is
finest
produced
subject,"
England
at
paintingby
its
Cicero
his villa."
Note
"
page
50, line
18.
draws
amusements
delightful pictureof
of when
the
almost Caieta
Laurentum,
in
fatigued with
the
business, and
of
a
happy
being
in
to
a
allowed retired
indulgence
the
quiet
deavoured en-
conscience
spot in
country, they
their
grow
a
boys again in
amusements,
and
upon
received
the
sea
sensible shore.
"
audeo
narrare
dicere
de
talibus
viris, sed
eos
tamen
Sccevola, conchas
Laurentum
et
umbilicos ad
et ad
legere
NOTES.
et ad
:
"
291
remissionem
consuesse,
omnem
animi De
ludumque
descendere
"c.
8.
"c.
oratore.
Valer. Maximus,
Lib.
viii.
c.
Note
It is with
a
14,
page
52.
much
to
a
that propriety,
the
poets compare
that loathsome
slanderer
since viper,
to
the
poisonof
"
is confined reptile
that the
its mouth.
It is
not
curious,
be gerous, danit
known un-
poisonof serpents
when taken itself into the
also should
when
not
insinuates
to
This
was
Lucan.
"
Noxia Morsu
Pocula
scrpcntum
est
admixto
sanguine pestis;
in dente
minantur:
This
so
secret
was
well known
to
the
cited ex-
much
and surprise,
at
gained
their the
able consider-
emoluments
Rome
by
art
extracting
serpents.
ed, believ-
poisonfrom
"
wounds,
caused
"
by
The
bite of
Vid. Pint,
that
in vit. Cato.
Ammonians
the
produce
of old wasps
"
dunghills ; and
were
the
by generated
the
of putrefaction
Pressus
humo
bellator
equus u
carbonis
origo,"
292
NOTES. accustomed
of
to
Pythagoras was
was
say, that
lumniator ca-
in his state
a
a snake, pre-existence
and
would,
of
a
in
future
"
one,
animate
own
the
degraded
never see
body
or
: scorpion a
For
my
or
part, I
hear
see
a
of
male slanderer,
female, but
fancy,
"
snake's whose
Howel,
sinkinginto silently
when
a
deserved un-
young
man,
Pennant,
a
was
dissected, something
found ters. Let-
in the form
of
Vid. Hotel's
6. let. 43.
In
the
convent
of Cordeliers, mimosa
a
:
near
of species
"If
in expectorated
a nauseous
room,
it will
turn
immediatelyfillit with
recommend
and
stench, and
40.
name
"
paintblack." -Swinburne,p.
to
Permit
for
to
naturalists
tree
"
"
new
this odious
detestable
the
scandal
tree."
Having
from the whole
"It
or an
said
so
much
of the of Greek
"
"
of
most
I vipers,
cannot
refrain in
:
quotingone
range is from
beautiful
passages,
literature philosophical
As
an
Epictetus.
a
when
you
see
viper
you of the
asp,
or
in scorpion,
ivoryor goldbox,
on
do
not
love
it,or think
it happy,
account
294
where
we
NOTES.
view the
objectat
the
too
inconsiderable
tance, dis-
and which
can are
through
medium
of those littlenesses,
inseparablefrom
up
to
humanity.
"
Time and
only
assign
hold
view in the
it the due
rank
Linneus,
in
of the
has Laplanders,
eloquent passage
!
"
"
Jelix Lappo
lates contentus
qui in
et
ultimo
"
angulo mundi
Tu
nee
sic
an-
bene
noncc
znnocens.
times
oras
caritatem,nee
Martis sed
prcdia,qucc
ad
tuas
pervenire nequeunt,
vincias lent.
"
Jlorentissimas Europce
scepe
pro-
et
urbestunico
dormis
momento,
tua
dedejiciunt,
Tu
hie sub
pclleab
omnibus
quip
sit
curis,
in-
VIDIA."
"
Grandeur
arch stands
can we
is not
over
to
be observed
the under
even
in the
noble
of
Trajan
Danube,
the
if the
spectator
;
immediately
form
Notre
buttresses
neither
in London,
any
Dame
adequate
at
Paris, or
those
Rome,
if
we
approach too
be
near
magnificent buildings.
men.
"
"The
cannot
analogy appliesequally to
seen
Great
too
men
to
advantage, if they
of
a
are
closely
approached.
"
Men
common
stamp,
however,
NOTES.
cannot
our
295
be
seen
at
unless all,
they
are
under directly
visible
enough!
"
Pliny the
may
not
younger,
in
letter to Maximus,
an
which
ness, sick-
be inaptly
called
after
to
observing,that
avarice, and
to
the
is insensible
that the
love,
to
honours,
envy
remarks
and
die within
"
him.
"
He
period by observing,
attendit,
26.
"
ac
ne
sermonibus
"
aut
alitur."
Vid.
Ep.
Lib.
vn.
Ep.
that
It
ought
not, however,
loses
be
concealed,
every
to
good
writer On
by
being personallyknown
Johnson
an
his reader."
"
"
has
fine simile.
to
from transition,
author's
an
book
his
a
conversation, is,too
often,
distant
like
entrance
"
into
large city,after
see
prospect.
Remotely,
turrets
we
nothing
but
spiresof
it the
temples, and
residence
"but when
of
palaces,and
imagine
of
have
narrow
passed
the
gates,
we
find
it
perplexed
with
passages, with
disgraced with
spicable de-
cottages, embarrassed
clouded with smoke."
"
and obstructions,
14.
"
Rambler, No.
Note This
16,
page
56.
in the
Benedictine
church
296
at
Ferrara.
the
"
and
there
of
made
following reflections.""
which
men
are
degree
importance, in
raries and
held
by
their cotempo"
is by posterity
has
very
different.
to
This
fine
fanciful bard
than
she
one
done
more
honour and
modern
Italy,
which the
tirely en-
in
of fifty birth
;
"
the
popes
princes to
were
now
has
given
and
while
those,who
gaze
of the
multitude
during
fame
his forgotten,
increases
time.
"
In in
his the
countrymen,
;
now
from
he
of the
house eyes
of Este
reflects
lustre,in
names
the
of all
Europe,
on
the
illustrious he
was
born."
Note
Vaucluse
If,
page
60.
was
small
bounded valley,
were
by
an
phitheatre am-
of rocks, which
The
was
bold
and
"
romantic.
the south of the
river the
was
Sorgue
divided
"
the
valley.
at
To
Mediterranean
an
while
"
the
foot
rocks
immense
in.
cavern. el
Vid. De
Cant.
Lille,Poem
vn.
"
des
Mois,
The
present
state
of this celebrated
"
by
The
Mr.
Whalley.
See
Letters
of
Miss
Seward.
"
arguments
of Lord
Woodhouslee,
proving,that
NOTES.
Laura
;
"
297
are
lived and
died unmarried,
of
sive conclustrictly
the memoirs
being
little more
than
"
Petrarch," his
can-
lordshipobserves,
zoni
or
composed
; a
318
sonnets, 59
songs,
the
a
and
6 trionfi
largevolume
of poetry,
; not
on entirely
subjectof
his
to
mention
of variety
passages
prose
works,
and
where
even
that favourite
discussed
at
very
of these passage,
woman.
"
works, there
which
Is
be
found
was a
single
intimates,that Laura
it to
be
married
conceived,
itself in
that
the
poet who
has
exhausted
language
sayingevery thing
not
of possible
mentions
only her
companions,
her
favourite
have and
walks,
omitted
and
her
mestic do-
would occupations,
such
capital
of many
facts, as
children
her
;
being married,
too,
who
as
the mother
married
a
the
author
of the memoirs
asserts, to used
her
man,
was
who
with
unkindness
in 1S48,
was
On
trarch's Pewas
died grave
"
and
Avignon."
First of
opened by
box
was
the
France.
and
A
a
small
verses,
few
written
by Petrarch."
On
woman;
the
on
medal
were
impressed the
the letters
figure
of
the
reverse
"298
m.
NOTES.
Madona signifying
and
l.
M.
J.
Laura
morta
jacc."*
returned
elegant
enthusiastic the
monarch
wrote
an
thing into
of her
tomb,
"
and
epitaphin
memory.
Note
"
18,
the
page
62.
in N.
a
This
island," says
October of
bishop
letter to Mr.
Pope, (dated
within
the
22, 1717,
S.)
a
"contains
compass
eighteen miles,
wonderful
mountains,
"
all thrown
together in
hottest from
mantic ro-
confusion.
The
son, sea-
constantlyrefreshed
sea.
"
by
cool
breezes
the
vales
are
produce excellent
covered
"
corn,
mostly
with
fruit-trees.
Besides
kinds,
as
cherries, apricots,peaches,
limes, almonds,
and which many
other
they produce
water figs,
oranges,
pomegranates,
unknown fruits,
melons,
to
our
mates, cli-
lie every
are
where
open
to
the
passenger.
to
"The
with
hills
the with
the
top
vines, some
fields on
of
myrtle andlentiscus.
divided
The
the northern
"
side
are
rows by hedge-
myrtle.
Several
fountains
to
the
beauty
the
"
of this
landscape,which
some
off
by
varietyof
barren
crowns
spots, and
the scene,
naked
a
rocks.
But
that,which
is
large
NOTES.
299
middle
the
are
mountain,
risingout
terrible
;
of
the
of
the
island,
called
with
(once
Mons
vines
volcano, by
its lower
ancients adorned
Epomeus
and
other
parts
affords pasture to
the
sheep, and
which
you
one
top is
sandy
several of
pointedrock, from
in the
have
the finest
prospect
at world, surveying
view, besides
your
feet,a
tract
Italy
montory proThe and
miles in
the hath
length,from
the
"
of Antium
cape
been
of Palinurus.
sung
by
Homer
and
adventures
of
heroes.
The
islands
Caprea, Prochyta,
Cajeta, Cumse,
Monte
inhabitants
of
of
Naples,
the
promontory
make
of Minerva, but
a
whole
which numbers
would
as
demand
imaginationas
own
and
flowingas
your
to
scribe de-
it."
"
Note
"*'
19,
page
62.
I have
been
woman
says
this admirable
letter to her
innocent
"and sister,
all the
pleasures,
shades,paintedflowers,fragrant breezes,
300
NOTES.
birds warbling
my
can
and
yield."If
I
I could
muses
to to
; but
are sure
am
afraid it would
sipid inthe
you,
Yet
that
I
am
but
moderately
would
fond
country."
that
more
you
relish any
;
sure, pleacan
heightened your
? I have
view been their
devotion
and
the
what
beauties
flowers
of nature in
pullinga thousand
pieces,to
a
have
thousand
:
times- with
lines
These
are
of
good,
Almighty,
Thus
universal
frame,
wondrous
sons
wondrous
ye, who ;
"
fair !
best
thyselfhow
tell, ye
him.
"
then
Speak, Angels
can
of
light,
for ye
behold
They indeed
not
behold
to
some
the his
denied
me
trace
in footsteps
the
flowery
in the the
and fields,
hear
faint echoes
meet
of his voice
harmony
softness my
of birds, or
of the
his
gentlewhispersin
; to xiv.
evening breezes
be
impatienceto
admitted
"
blissful vision
"
of uncreated
beauty." Let.
pvigs.
Note
20,
page
"
Nature
there
unfolded
to
302
NOTES.
It
a
parsonage.
way from down
"
is
situated delightfully
about about
a a
half mile
hill,frontingthe
"
south,
command
Coxheath.
The
windows
about
prospect
and from
extending southward,
east to west not
not
twelve
"
miles,
less than
a
forty.
in
In this whole of
space,
that is
I do
not
perceive
"
single speck
lawns
ground,
cultivated.
The
the
neighbourhood,
of the
so
the
hop-grounds,
the
rich verdure
a
trees, and
form variety,
scenery
not
picturesque
to
luxuriant, that it is
;
easy
fancy
any
and
thing finer
add
to
villagesrising here
in ten
them
and
there different
at
among
the
trees
some
posed disof
more
thousand
forms, and
distance
some
the
of
than
miles,
The water,
and
you
will
have
idea
murmur
of
of
Hunton."
is the
running
have
some
ponds
trees
and
clear
a
pools, that
glitterthrough
;
the
and
have
we
pleasing effect
no
with
abundance
;
of
shade,
have
damp
at
nor
fenny ground
distance, like
press upon
that
we us.
and
though
looks
trees
one
continued
There the
do
not
"
is no
within
overhang
see
highways being
nor
very
high
; so
that
neither^ravellers,
in
and carriages,
indeed
such
was
an
motion
which
I think
conveys I
never
peace
and
"
quiet,as
conscious
of before."
NOTES.
303
Note
22,
page
80.
'to
cultivated
mind, says
man,
no
this
accomplishedand
minded elegantly
"
is indifferen
In
ness wilder-
in the
province, and
and craggy
in
isle ; solitary
;
in
the
flowery lawn,
of
; ;
mountain
the
in the
of
murmur
the
rivulet,and
radiance
of
uproar
and
the of
ocean
in
the
summer,
gloom
in the
thunder
of heaven, and
in the
to
whisper
or
raise
to
imagination,to
his
draw
forth his
"
affections,
every
to
employ
understanding.
that
is not
And
from
mental
even
energy,
some
attended
as
with
pain, and
terror
from
a pity,
moderate
and
sound
derives
to
satisfaction ; exercise
the
body
and
the and
soul,
both
equallyproductive of
health
sure." pleaII.
Essays on
p. 33.
Poetry
and
Note
Ossian in which has
the A
23,
page
86.
described
the
of generalstyle
their
Highland
green its
own
chiefs fixed
usual
winds of hills,
silent
with
blue
stream.
"
Here, amid
the
80 i
NOTES.
of
waving
old.""
oaks,
were
the
dwellingsof
the
kings of
"
The
seats
"
of the
were
Highland chiefs,"says
neither with
nor disagreeable
an
nent emi-
critic,
"
venient. incon-
Surrounded
mountains
from
and
hanging
woods,
they were
"
covered them
the
inclemency of
a
Near
gene:
net
allyran
largeriver,
an arm
discharging itself
or
far
of
extensive
The
lake, swarmed
were
variety
;
of fish. and
woods and
stocked behind
and
state
;
wild-fowl
were
we
the heaths
seat
the make
natural allowance
of the
roe.
If
for the
not at
of
the agriculture,
not
were valleys
unfertile
if affording,
all the
"
conveniences,
the his chief
own
least the
necessaries
of life. and
Here
lived,the
but
supreme
his sway
judge
was
lawgiver of
severe nor
people ;
"
neither
him
as
unjust.
of their
members
As
the
so
populace regarded
he, in return,
the
chief
as
blood,
of his absolute
a
considered
them
family.
"
His
commands,
more
therefore,
of the
though
and
decisive, partook
the
authorityof Though
the
as
father, than
rigour of
th^tribe
judge.
"
whole
of territory of the
was
sidered con-
the
no
property
other
chief, yet
than His
his vassals
made
him
consideration,
nor
services,
table
was
neither
burthensome
frequent.
"
NOTES.
305
supplied by
attendants
his
own
herds, and
what
his
numerous
killed
in
hunting.
"
of
magnificence,the
ages. and
"
Highland
from
chiefs
seat
lived, for
of
many-
At
distance
the
government, country,
tion Disserta-
secured
were
by
the inaccessibleness
of their
they
free and
independent.
"
Blair's
concerningthe
Poems
of Ossian.
page
Note
The of sea, wooded
"
24,
88.
Rhine
near a
here
grows
very
wide
and
are
forms several
an
kind well-
mile
broad,
The
in which
islands."
The
Rhinegau
of the the
forms
theatre. amphi-
banks
river, the
the
hills which
form
the
are
circles and
sown thickly
slopesof
great
tains, moun-
with of the
villagesand
hamlets. the
"
The
white
appearance
and buildings,
fine
the various
of the space
landscape,have
of every with for
a
an
admirable
you
effect.
"
mile,
A
as
sail down
in any
the
river, you
meet
which, village,
town.
"
other
place,would
contain there
are
pass
Many
in the
of the
villages
from
three
to
four
them
hundred
families ; and
space of fifteen of this
of thirty-six six
miles
long, and
broad, which
"
is the
width
beautiful
hills and
amphitheatre.
mountains
are
The
planted thick
vineyards
tops of the
and
fruit-trees ; and
vol.
II.
306
hills cast
NOTES.
gloomy
horror
over
ful cheer-
and
to
of
ragged
down directly
domineer
"
over majestically
the
them.
The
ceedingly ex-
bank
of the
barren, and
prospect,
;
on on
heightens
side, by
the
beauty of
contrast
the
hibits ex-
the
other
the
it three
hardly meet
are
above
or
four other.
and villages,
"
far distant
them
from is
each
The
occupied
a
by
bush
heaths
and
meadows,
only here
a
and
there
thick
affords
some
shade, and
the
few
corn-fields
among
the
enliven villages
gloomy landscape."The
is the
a
back-ground
part of it.
"
of this country
most
picturesque
tains, moun-
It is formed
by
in
narrow
of gullet
diminish
perspectivebetween
and
Rudetains moun-
Bingen.
over
"
rocks Perpendicular
hang
to
the
Rhine,
at
this
place,and
seem
a
make
it the dominion
the
of eternal
to
come
night.
"
At
tance, dis-
Rhine hole
seems
out
;
of this
landscape
to
a run
through
under
to
ground
and
it appears
tediouslyin
order
through
there
not
sant pleais
not
country the
any
longer.
In
word,
does
thing in
this whole
to
tract,
that and
bute contri-
something
the whole.
"
the
beauty
magnificence of
many, throughGer-
Baron
in.
Riesbach's
Travels
Vol.
p. 236-7.
NOTES.
307
Note
25,
page
89.
Montaigne
in passions
of chess
"
exercises
the
the
highestdegree.
error.
"
"This
is, undoubtedly,an
the
it exercises
correction
nearer
mental
tends
been
the
of the
he passions,
"
have
much
the truth.
on
work highlyinteresting
"
might
be written
the
of chess. morality
26,
page
91.
was
Blacklock, who
visual
blind from
nishing astowas
describe
and
objectswith
who
Mr.
at
Saunderson,
professorof
gave
lectures
mathematics
on
Cambridge, actually
of
the
no
theory
be
true
colours !
"
As
Mr.
Saunderson the
made
discoveries may
no
in the
science,perhaps for,on
the
phenomenon
he
that principle,
had
colour,but
daughters
the
read
or
Hebrew
without
"
points
v.
the
5.
language. Vid.
Essay, Part
sect.
Note
27, page
has written
95.
a
"
de Genlis this
comedy,
The
in two of
: elegantsubject
"
Queen
Salengy."
"
Louis
13th
the dispatched
303
NOTES.
from Varennes and
a
Marquis de Gordes
presents of
Queen
made winner
a a
to
with Salency,
for ring, the
blue
ribbon
:
silver Mons.
and
in 1766
Morfontaine
the
of 120
"
livres upon
annual
The
a
account following
of
garland, presented by
from
a
lover to
his
is taken mistress,
II.
Curiosities of
p. 514
it is
translation from
beautiful Julia
d'Angennes was
when the
youth
and
fame,
celebrated
war
king of Sweden,
the
most
was
making
in
Germany
splendidsuccess."
of this hero. and toilette, would Duke ardent have
"
Julia She
expressed
his portrait
warm
had
placedon
that
took
no
in pleasure lover
claring, de-
other
was,
than
Gustavus."
her avowed the death
a gift,
The and of
de Montausier
however,
admirer.
he sent
"
Gustavus,
her, as
year's
poetical
garland,
of which
the
following
is a
description.
He
had
most
beautiful
flowers,by
all of
was
one
eminent Under
on artist,
pieces of vellum,
a
size.
every flower
sufficient space
left open
of
madrigalon
the
310
attract daily
NOTES.
are attention,
our
the
Saxon."
Our
from from
tives, primiother
much languages,
scale following in
a case
of
obligation. Mathematical
"
accuracy,
of
this sort, is
not
to
be
so
etymologists are
other.
"
at frequently to
war
with
each the
It
ought, however,
be
observed, that
far from
being
overcharged.
Nothing
borrowed
esteem
is
more
in singular
the
of history of
our
glish En-
than etymology,
so
having
we
little from
most
which
may
the
uncorrupted
of all the
fourteen for
vernacular
languages in Europe;"
and
which
NOTES.
it is the worst if we harsh being exceedingly
311
reason
;
"
and
and, guttural,
of
a
may range.
;
"
judge from
"
very
"
limited The
This
language had
;
dialects:
Cornish
is extinct:
be stilltraced in
Britany.
30,
page
103. oration
over
Anthony,
in his celebrated
the dead of
nificence mu-
body
of Cesar,
;
expatiates upon
as a
and,
not
proof of
the
his
a
of the Cesar
he gift,
does
inform them
populace, that
had
bequeathedto
had
garden,tillhe
money
as
has said,
;
a
as
that he
left them
legacy in
should
if he
operate
climax
his
eloquence.
"
Anthony. Moreover,
His On
And To
he
hath
new
left you
all his
walks,
privatearbours,
that
to
and
planted orchards,
left them
common
side Tiber
your heirs
; he
hath
;
you,
for and
ever
pleasures,
"
walk
abroad
recreate
yourselves.
Julius
Cesar, Act
ill.
sc.
3.
upon
burning
the
houses
of all the
conspirators!"
Note
31,
page
10?.
312
NOTES.
ancient
the
lthacotis, ordered
was
city to
own
be
"
built
This
;
there, which
new
called
the
after his
name.
citybecame
Arabian the
capitalof
the
kingdom
it
was
and
the
historians
taken
by
Saracens,it was
four
that
it contained
four hundred
"
thousand squares,
palaces,as
and
many
baths,
forty thousand
Jews. tributary
Pocoche's
Travels
through Egypt."'
Note
The
are
32,
are
page
107.
walls,
as
we
informed
paces thick
by
at
Marco
the
Polo, bottom,
at
formed
of earth, ten
and
with has
graduallytapering to
white three
over
three
Each
paces
side
thick
of the
top,
battlements.
"
square
palaces,
the
built
other
and
there
the
are
angles of
are
walls,where
whole
arms
garrison
actly ex-
kept.
The
cityare
laid is
out
squared, and
straightlines;
from houses
courts
so
in
that
free prospect
preserved,
and
gate
are
to
city;
Polo
the
each
and
tary, Sect.
Note
33,
page
108.
Accident of
was
the
we
city
are
Stockholm.
The
viceroy,who,"
as
NOTES. informed
3t3
by Mr. Wraxall,
II. of
and
"
governed Sweden
determined
of
der un-
Christian
Denmark,
instead of his of
upon proper
cally whimsithe it A and the
founding a city:
spot for
set
fixingon
very
afloat whatever
the
a
execution
plan, he
large piece
and
wood
at
down
Meier should
Lake,
resolved
to
place
"
stop, there
build his
the
projectedtown.
in its progress,
to
stick
was
of Stockholm
"
given
Tour
it from
circumstance."
Vid.
WraxaWs Swedish
and
a
of Europe.
"
Stock in the
language, as
means
as
in the of
a
Dutch,
Saxon,
Holme
the
English,
"
body
two
plant;
in
"
There called
islands
Bristol
the
Holmes.-"
Note
I
am now
34,
page
110.
in
Valentia, situated
in
largevega
"
or
valley,about
and
sixtymiles
sweetest
in compass:
here the
are
the
almonds,
in all
best
oils,
very
beautiful make
females
Spain." The
of
we
brute and
themselves
;
beds when
we
rosemary,
are
fragrantflowers
blow
we
and
at
sea,
if the
from
come
the in
shore,
may
smell
this
before soil,
sightof it,many
scent
leagues off,
The
by
the
strong odoriferous
it casts.
"
Moors,
when
they were
in
banished that
to
Barbary, thought,that
heavens,
which
paradise was
part of the
314
NOTES.
over
hung
1.
this
city.
"
Hotel's
Letters, book
i. sect.
lett. xxv.
Note
35,
page
110.
It is difficult to reconcile
on
the
accounts
of writers
the
ancient
climate
had
of
Palmyra.
"
Mr.
Gibbon
;
says,
Palmyra
pure,
and
several
tains foun-
the soil
name
capable of
producing fruit
and
corn.
once
"
Its
undoubtedly
by palm
trees, that
surrounded
it had
a
only one
fountain,and
situated in
literal desert.
Note Marisque
36,
page
112.
litora,
Parum
locuplescontinente
ripa, "c.
Hor.
"c.
Lib.
n.
Od.
18.
Cicero
this
had
was
villa
of
at
Baia.
"
The that
character
"
of
place
Baia
that
no
nature,
Propertius
she had
minated conta-
esteemed
Cynthia
;
entered
and Seneca
for Let.
cxvi.
v. Sylv.
having onlyonce
Permit Lib.
in. me
Dupaty,
tins, Staiv.
to
also, to
v.
Note The
37,
page
113.
splendourof
be, in
some
de-
315
by
the
numerous
remains
among
its ruins
during
century."
In
1771
several
valuable
fragments
whose
"
sculpture were
sold them
to
discovered Cardinal
Polignac;
the
a
decease In 1790
they were
Mr.
Gavin
bought by
Hamilton,
King
of Prussia.
some
painterof
the
eminence,
at Rome, residing
discovered
mable inestifollowing
treasures.
IN
THE
MUSEO
PIO-CLEMENTINO.
of Menelaus.
of
a
Vase Head
with
of
a
philosopher.
of Plato. in red of
a
Statue
A A stork
of Nemesis. of
rosso
marble.
antico.
Mauritanian.
greyhound.
with
ornaments.
Bust
of Hadrian. Pius.
Column
Antoninus
AT
THE
VILLA
ALBANI.
sphynx:
green
basaltes.
Head
of Caracalla. of Lucius
Head Bust
of Antinous. of Caracalla.
Bust
Verus.
OF
LANSDOWN.
Cupid
and
a
Psyche.
fragment.
muse.
of Paris.
Pudicia,
Head of
Antinous.
Do. Bust
as an
Egyptian
victor
deity.
Olym-
Two
Egyptian
marble.
idols
in. black
of
in the
pic games.
Bas-relief
in do.
316
MANSEL
NOTES.
TALBOT,
ESQ. MARGAM
ABBEY.
Statue
of
Ptolemy.
Bust
of Sabina.
Bust
of Hadrian.
CAVALLIEIiE
PIRANESI.
great
number
of
fragments
of vases, and
a
animals
of different
of
sorts, some
elegant ornaments,
the
colossal
head
Her-
eules,in
Townley
GENERAL
collection.
SCHWALLOFF.
Antinous,
head.
Bust
of
as
young
man,
as
large
Sabina, do.
EMPEROR OF
life.
RUSSIA. of Antinous.
of
Cupid.
Head
Do.
now
of Juno. of L.
ofPompey.
of Dorset.
Verus,
at
St.
Duke
Petersburgh.
MR.
JENKINS.
Lucilla. Juno.
Athleta.
MR.
Jupiter,
Faustina
Junior,
"c.
"c.
TOWNLEY.
Greek
A dozen
hero,
head. and
to
different
parts
of
Ger-
busts
beads,
is
a
sent
many.
At
Stowe,
there
a
a sarcophagi, representing
in sacrifice, Cawdor
to
groupe
vase
of six
figures ;
and
Lord
had
the
(nearlyequal in
Portland of
vase
size and
ture sculpwas
celebrated
the
"
vase) which
sold
for
found called
among
ruins
Hadrian's
was
villa,now
seven
Pantanello.
This
318
NOTES.
a place so finding
without
of
well
"
adaptedfor
the asylum
silence and
an
peace.
the
Bourganne,
p. 335."
What
morceau
effect would
have upon the
following elegantlittle
the
were regions,
it inscribed
"
simpleportic"
of
an
hermitage!
INSCRIPTION.
thou, who
to this wild
retreat
Shalt To This
trace
waving
o'er
rocky
thou shuns leaves the
cell and
sainted
floor ;
If here
That That Learns Then Yon
loves
mankind,
in this wood
schools,and
science
the
"
to be
good
soft,as
oaks
to
dews
below
throw,
Peace,
thy prayers
bless
by virtue brought,
Pilgrim,shall
thy
hallow'd
thought.
Stcevciis,
41,
so
page
138. at
charmed,
a
having a
an
native
of their
country, for
the
king,
which,
had
a
before
a
accession
of Gustavus
not, for
medal
reverse
in commemoration
happy
"
the
of which
"
was
this
inscriptionFadern's
"
It is my
native
land."
Vid.
Wraxall's
"
throughthe
North
of Europe, p. 28/.
The
NOTES.
S19
forbids every
Japanesehave
sail
out
law, which
subjectto
death.
to
a
of the
penaltyof
by
a
"Those,
therefore,who
driven
renounce
storm
shore,are foreign
obligedto
amiable
every
idea of does
in its
returningto
a
De
Page.
Thus
law, the
most
a
in its
origin, operate,
most
in application,
on one
manner,
the
best
of the
of feelings
heart !"
Note The
Moore.
"
42,
page
138. described
bay
"
of
Naples
was
is thus founded
by
is
Dr.
Naples
by
the
Greeks."
one
The
chosen,
taste
proof,among
of that ingenious
people.
named
The
bay
is about
in diameter
miles thirty
"
in
circumference, and
crater
twelve its
it has
been
to most
a
from bowl
supposed resemblance
with
bowl."
This
the
beautiful
and
foliage ;
trees
with
olive, mulberry,
villas and
orange
"
; with
hills, dales,towns,
of the of
a
villages.At
town
the in
bottom
bay
vast
sea.
of
Naples, the
If from
see
is built
the
form
amphitheatre,
"
from sloping
town
the
the the
the
you
turn
your
east, you
and
the
rich
"
plains, leadingto
look
to
Mount west,
on
Vesuvius
you
Portici.
If you
the
have
the
grotto of
is
the Pausilippo,
mountain
which
tomb Virgil's
320
NOTES.
the
"
placed, and
coast
fields
On
the
leading
north shore
to
Puzzoli
the
to
and
the
of
Baia.
are
fertile
hills,
graduallyrisingfrom
Felice.
two
"
the
the
Campagna
by
the the
On
the south
of
is the
bay,
and
confined
promontories
Misenum
Minerva,
view and
by
you
Procida, Ischia,
the castle
and
as
of St. eye
at
Elmo,
once,
have
all these of
objects under
a
your
Viexv
of Societyand
Vol. Italy,
p. 123.
It
was
was
at
Naples Virgilwrote
to
a
his
Georgics ;
called
the mother
it
compared
;
"
beautiful
and virgin,
idleness and and
Par-
thenope
the
of birthplace
pleasures:
"
yet Silius
which would
Statius
it
add
even
circumstances,
to
endeared the
most
the
most
as austerely,
elegantlyvirtuous.
"
"
exemptum
curis
gravioribus
aevuni.
"
XII.
Et
nunquam
turbata
quies, soumique
peracli.
"
Statius.
Sglv,Lib.
III.
Note
43,
page
144.
Omitted.
NOTES.
Note
32 L
44,
called
page
149.
the French la maladie sessing posas
This
passionis
To
by
du pays."
any
foreignears,
attractive may
be
It is the
as
wild
and
barren,
the
most
over
(ifI
bleak
comparison), as
"
of the
hearts it its
mountains.
Swiss
the
arises from
not
associations,which
intrinsic
Suisses merit of
produces, and
own.
"
from
any des
de le
Cet
air
si chert
mort
peine de
jouer dans
larmes,
tant
qiCilfaisoitfondre en
ceux
deserter
en
mourir
eux
qui I'entendoient,
desir de
de
il excitoit
"
f ardent
revoir leur
art.
pays.
Ranee
Rousseau.
des
Dictionnaire
"
"
Musique,
as
Vaches.
This
tune,"
been
Dr.
Beattie
observes, beautifully
of their childhood
and
"
having
wild
the recals
attendant
to
earlyyouth,
of and liberty
their
memory
those
regionsof days
beauty and
rude
nificence, mag-
those
peace,
those
nights
tender
of
those festivity,
which passions,
them
;
employments
scenes
which,
when
now
compared
of uproar
they
are
the
as
servitude
they now
overpowers
undergo,
them."
1.
"
such
regret
entirely
Beattie,s
vi.
Essays on Poetryand
Musict Part
VOL.
II.
ch.
2.
Y
322
NOTES.
Note The
45,
on
page
150.
joy
is
of
Swiss,
returning to
his native
"
country,
"
beautifullydescribed
I
"
by Rousseau.
the
more
The
nearer
drew
to
Switzerland
was
agitated. That
lake of
instant, in which
from the
I discovered
was
the
a
Geneva,
of
heights of Jura,
"
moment
rapture and
beloved overflowed
ecstacy.
The
sightof
a
my
of
country,
that
country, where
my
;
deluge
pure
pleasures had
wholesome
heart
the
and of the
east ;
air of the
more
Alps
than
the
gentlebreeze
of the
country,
that the that
sweet
the
perfumes
rich and
most
landscape,
eye
of man;
that beautiful,
struck
which of the I
the
abode, delightful
in the
vast
to tour
found
nothing
the aspect
comparable
of
a
globe :
free
;
and
the
mildness
;
a
of
the
season
the
climate recalled
all
a
thousand my
mind
to
pleasures I
I
had
enjoyed:
me
these
of
to
one
stances circum-
togetherthrew
which
cannot
into
kind
transport,
collect the
describe,and
of my
seemed
enjoyments
"
whole
life into
%"
happy
ment." mo-
Dear And
is that
dear
as a
shed,
to
which
his soul
lifts him sounds mother's
conforms,
to
that
which hill,
when closer
the
storms
"
And,
babe,
and
scaring
to the
moles!,
brer.st.
Clings
close
NOTES.
So But the loud bind
him
323
torrent,and
to
the
whirlwind's mountains
roar,
more.
bis
native
Traveller.
Note
"
46,
page
158.
The
days of
my
captivity," says
from
Helen
Maria
Williams, "are
seem
broughtbackby circumstances,which
sorrows,
remote sufficiently
by
that
nection con-
Akenside
you
will,perhaps,
I of
my
disordered,when
the
lake, from
this
luxuriant
to
banks
I send
you
recals letter,
my
"
mind,
The
my
apartment
of that
in the
Luxembourg
were
prison.
walls
apartment
a
hung
with
tapestry, which
described
landscapeof
have
romantic almost
beauty;
on
landscapeI
that
gazed, tillI
was
persuaded
me
the my
scenery eyes
wounded
"
often,when
which
man
were
led my
to
to
from spirit
"
the be
benignityof God;
seated
at
how
often
did
wish
the
some
foot of mimic
rose
those
sheltering
hills,which
beneath the
a
embosomed
or habitations,
mighty elm,
the
which
foreground of
a
piece, and
foliage over
summit
torrent
green
slope, appeared
"
the
of all stream,
earthly felicity!Those
which rolled down
y
the hills,
their steep
sTdes,
324
NOTES.
the
are
shady elm,
I
and
all the
objectsof
my
the
tapestry
often,
indelibly impressedon
am
memory;
and
when
of Switzerland,
over
country, where
nature
has
spread
in
every
landscapethose
bathed
lavish graces,
a
which,
other I have
few
favoured
spots,
amid ject, ob-
eyes
in
tears, when,
some
views
minute
unobserved
to
led my few
imagination
days since,
terrific form, each
the
narrow
in
torrents,
sweeping after
broken from
other
course
the
enormous
in their
by
the cliffs,
in the
raisingtheir
when
I
surges
air,
of
sometimes foam:
standingon
thrown work
across
one
of those the
daring bridges,that
and
gulf,
that
;
of
supernatural
agency
which
admiration, in
the the
the
of
past,
or
thought of
which rill,
future, had
down my
the
subsided,
torrent
Luxembourg
tapestry,
the
presenteditself
pendant
and cliffs, its
groves above
memory,
while, amid
of the
pine
and
dipped
a
drooping branches
surf, I discovered
326 Note
"
48,
page
Even
the
thoughtlessand
Mr.
dissipated,"
yield
nature
sciously uncon-
observes beautifully
to
Alison,
instincts
the
beneficent
of
and
in the it
"
pursuitof pleasure,return
noblest sentiments leave the of society
without
knowing
ficial arti-
to
They
pleasures, which
without into
they
those
a
occupied,
hasten
scenes,
to
perience ex-
those
uncultivated purer
where
they seem
some
breathe
air, and
"
leave
behind
to meet
them
nature
"
of man,
beauty. they
and love
Amid
to
the slumber
thoughts,
those
feel themselves
deep
and
a
majesticemotions, expansion
and
to
which
give
new
nobler
amid
the tumult
astonishment
imagination,
Praesentiorem
Per
conspicereDeum
fera
invias
rupes,
perjuga,
sonantes
Clirosque praruptos,
Inter
aquas;
nemorumque
m,Vein.
"
It is
on
this account,
that it is of
of the young, for
so
much
to
quence conse-
encourage
instinctive
"
taste
the
to
beauty
the
and
sublimity
of nature.
While
it opens
years of infancy
NOTES.
327
and
on
or
youth
source
of
pure
permanent
the character
ment, enjoyand
to
it has
consequences future
to
happiness of
foresee." and
life,which
they ax*e
amid
one
unable
It is
providethem,
with society,
all the
tions agitaalliance
trials of
gentle, unre
ever
voice
is
in
which
when
once
derstood, un-
soothe
to
misfortune
and
with
to
reclaim
from
folly.
It is
to
them identify
which
the
and
happinessof
to
that nature,
an
they belong ;
the
give them
and
interest in every
them
;
species of being,
hours of
riosity cu-
which
surrounds
and
amid
delight,to
and of
awaken
those
latent
which
feelings
all the
of benevolence moral
"
sympathy, from
man
or
intellectual greatness of
arises. finally
It is
"
to
lay the
the
foundation
of
an
earlyand
of the make
manly
material
piety;
in signs,
amid
magnificent system
and
which
can
mighty
them
as
key, which
look the
as
upon abode
the
universe, which
human
cares
only of
service
human in which
joys, but
the
temple
and
of the
to
God, living
praiseis
the page
due
and
be
performed."" -Essay on
the
Beauty
445.
of Sublimity
material
World,
Note The
49,
page
174.
ancient
ruins of Cadzow
Castle,the
baronial
326
NOTES.
of the
residence
upon
two
family of Hamilton,
of the river
the its junction with
are
situated
about It
was
the
banks precipitous
Evan,
"
miles above
Clyde.
civil wars,
dismantled, in
the
cause
the of
conclusion
the
of the
reign
unfortunate
devoted
Mary,
their
to
the house
of Hamilton
themselves
generous
zeal, which
very
occasioned their
temporary
"
and obscurity,
nearly
total ruin.
in
The
situation of the
ruins,embosomed
and
wood, darkened
the
by ivy
and
creeping shrubs,
is romantic of vicinity remains
overhanging
is
brawling torrent,
"
in the
highestdegree.
a
In
the
immediate
Cadzow
grove
of
immense which
oaks, the
of the Caledonian
Forest,
of Scotland,
ocean.
"
extended anciently
from the Eastern
trees
are
through the
to
so
south
the
Atlantic
that
"
Some have
of these
ancient,
they might
The
witnessed
the is
whole
of this scenery
included, in
"
magnificent park
Scotch
of the
Duke
of Hamilton.
in.
Minstrelsy of the
Border, Vol.
p. 414.
Note
There have
not
50,
page
178.
some even
been
wanting
lose at
to
that mountains
what
manner
may
one
time, and
they
have
or
lost at the
of trees,
by
of operation p.
one
vo\a
513.
It is
undoubted
fact,that
of the downs
NOTES.
in the Isle of the
329
in
Wight
of
has
decreased
height within
island.
"
memory
many
"the
persons
mother
in that
pides Euri-
calls Etna,
of
mountains
;"
the may
epithet is appliedwith
credit matter,
the assertion of
if we propriety, singular
Kircher,
that
that
the
quantity of
exceeds,
Vid.
expectorated by
mountain,
twenty
bulk."
Kircher,
Sut. Vol.
I.
p. 202.
51,
page
180.
in in
"
Arcad. existence It
was
50Q.
"
Since
the
Atlantis
was
nine
as
thousand
as
have
Asia
"
passed
Minor The its
away.
large
situated
Syria
in the the
put
together, and
of its
Atlantic.
structure
and buildings,
profusionof
"
gold
and
and
ivory, were
sciences
beyond imagination.
were
The the
arts
the
well
vated, culti-
and
ness
beauty
of its
bloom in
flowers, and
the
the
of fertility
proportionto
"
ance abund"
productions.
in the
Plato
account
in Critia. of
instance, except
in art and
a
its proficiency
science, does
creation
?
"
this
island,which
has
been
esteemed
of Plato's
imagination,
that
vast
differ
from
America
has been
"
The
discoveryof
to
continent
said fancifully
have
been
told fore-
by
Seneca.
330
NOTES.
"venient
annis
oceanus
Secula Vincula
sens,
verum
quibus
laxet,
"c.
"c.
Medea,
Solon
are
v.
374.
wrote
poem
on
the
Atlantic
Island.
was
"
We
first
told
by
Diodorus
discovered
by
the
that that
no
when
one
they
should
had
discovered
it,they made
the
law,
settle in
it,under
Note 52,
us,
penalty of
181.
two
death.
"
page
Dion
Cassius
in
to
informs the
first
that these
cities
were
destroyed
endeavour the silence
eruption of
causes
Vesuvius of
the
the investigate
which,
"
sioned occa-
death
of
the
elder
the
Pliny.
account
From
the
of
has is
Pliny the
been
younger,
a
of Dion
"
Cassius
silence
made
"
subject of
For
to
doubt.
not
But
this of
no
argument.
it
was
the
a
duty
that
accomplished
the
orator
give
Tacitus
general
of description
whole
catastrophe,attending that
of which
as
remarkable is
no
and eruption,
as
Tacitus
was,
there
doubt,
well
informed,
he
was a
himself, but
only
pars
a
that part, of
which
witness [quorum
him
"
magna
fait;) and
as
which of
20.
was
"
affected
an
in
so
serious
point,
Lib. which
the
loss
uncle.
Vid.
Plin.
Ep.
in
"
vi.
Ep.
l6.
The
portion of Tacitus,
has been lost.
this
event
recorded,
NOTES.
If
are
331
we
to
doubt
are
the
not
evidence confirmed
of
of
because historians,
their facts
may
by others,
most
we
call in
question many
in the
the
important
world.
"
events, recorded
historyof
the
veral Se-
by
Tacitus
Livy gives no by
which
not
account
of innumerable
;
"
mentioned particulars,
of
Plutarch is so
the
Alexandria,
is by Abulfaragius, chius
;
even
to
and
several
miracles
and
attested
Matthew,
record.
events
"
which
St. Mark
St. John
neglectedto
books
Plutarch, in
in the
Cesar, omits
sixth
related
and
"
great general'sCommentaries.
Note
53,
page
181.
From
the time
of
Odenatus, Zenobia,
name
and
Aure-
of this
the world and
great city,
had
power
it
was
merely
ideas
"
name,
for
very it
confused
of
the
were
real
grandeur
end
possessed. They
Europe,
when
some
scarcelyeven
the
suspected in
last
until towards
of the
of
century,
tired of ruins
to
English
the
merchants
Aleppo,
immense
hearing
be found of these
was
Bedouins
talk of the
to
in the desert,resolved
relations. extraordinary
in
"
made
were
1678, but
robbed
without
success
the
turers adven-
by
the
Arabs, and
332
to obliged
"
NOTES.
return
without
They again took courage in 1691, and at length obtained in question. a sight of the antiquities
"
Their
narrative, published
with
many,
in
the
Philosophical
refused
Transactions, met
men
who
belief;
could
in
a a
neither
conceive, nor
remote
persuade themselves
any habitable
that such
spot,
so
from their
place,
as magnificent city,
drawings described,
Dawkins himself
have that
or
could
have
in
existed.
the
"
But
since Mr.
lished, pubhad
1753,
the
taken
and
on
ceased,
it is
acknowledged, universally
in
antiquity
be of Palmyra.
has
left
nothing, either
with
Greece
to Italy,
compared
"
the
of magnificence
Vid. p. 233.
Travels Volney's
"
in
Egypt
Nexu
Syria,
Oct.
"
Vol. 1695.
ii.
Transactions Philosophical
for
"
Wells's
Geography of the
ii.
Testament.
Pococke, Vol.
p.
134.
p.
106.
"
'MaundrelPs
Journey,
54,
page
186.
to absolutely
of particle
matter
dissolve
would link in
evaporate, and
thus
become each
"
lost,bodies
with
othe)^ and
grand
chain
be
globe balanced,
would particle
that
an
annihilation
out totally
throw
it
sphere
not
in the universe.
"
The
balances
of nature
the
B34
NOTES.
Note
The
a lippo,
56,
pace
192.
the mountain
of
name
tomb
of
is Virgil
on
Pausi;
little above
to
the
narrow
grotto of that
you
ascend
a
it
by
path, which
with
and
runs
through
vineyard; it
is overgrown
shrubs
shaded
by branches,
walk solitary
bushes
ancient
"
infinite
propriety,overhangs it.
I taken his
to
have
this
we
place.
"
earth, which
in the
contains
ashes,
"
expect
to
verdure. brightest
the
Viewed adorn
the
from
magic spot,
recollected
objects which
"
bay
are
become
here of
poet's verses
the
a
pleasure;
minds
verses
Virgilare
interwoven
with of
sand thou-
the
memory
of
our
ish boyour
the
scenes sportive
childhood, of
of whom
earliest friends
now
and
companions,
who still
many
are
dead
retain
and
those
and live,
for whom
at
we
the first
such
distance,as renders
uncertain.
"
the
hopes
of
seeingthem
again
in
a
very
No
wonder,
that
our
therefore, when
steps
to
mood, contemplative
to
a
a^
often and of
our
directed
cherish
spot
so
well
calculated
create state
sentiments
Dr. Moore's
(I.
congenial with
View
the
mind.
in
"
of Societyand
Manners
Italy,
Vol.
p. 291.
NOTES.
335
Note
He Of
comes
57,
!
"
page
197.
breeze
! he
comes
in every
comes
the power
philosophic melancholy
near
His
The The
approach
the the
sudden mild
the
a
starting tear,
dejected air, beating heart,
pang declare.
glowing cheek,
softened
feature, and
many
Pierc'd O'er
deep with
all the soul
virtuous
influence the far
his sacred
;
breathes!
breast
Inflames
Infuses
imagination
every tenderness earth
through
;
and
Beyond
dim
exalts
the
swelling thought
This
to
11.
is
not
"
the
green
and
melancholy,'' }'ellow
in Twelfth
at
which
sc.
Shakspeare alludes
nor
Night, Act
in have vain
"
3;
the from
passion,pointed
which Milton is
by Fletcher,
to
the
poem, the
supposed
"
taken
idea of his II
Penseroso,
Hence
ye
delights,"c."
corroding
spring off-
described ofphantasie,''
in Burton's
"
Anatomy,
the
but,
as
defined of
in the
context,
for disposition
indulgence
contemplation.""-To
mind
this
of the of
an
and
heart,
we
may in
refer the
expression so
in Ossian
:
"
common
"
Homer,
in
Holy-writ, and
and
The
joy
of
grief;""
Ovid." Paterno.
the
"
est
a
quaxlam
similar
flere
voluptas"
"
of
Pliny
Lib.
has
sentiment.
Epist.
vm.
E.
16.
"
336
NOTES.
Note
58,
Ah
page
ig8.
!
Maria
Puellarum Ah!
Flore
Elegantissima,
Venustatis Vale!
Abrepta,
Heu
Quahto
Minus
Est
Cum
Versari, Reliquis
Quam
Tui
!
Meminisse
Note In
59,
men
page
201.
other
illustrious
(saysDiodorus
some possessed
Siculus,)
one
you
ing shin"
In
Epaminondas
of
;
all the
united:
force mind
body
and
contempt
gentlenessof disposition ;
war.
"
courage
conduct
In
"
none
of
these
was qualities
Washington
two
deficient.
between parallel
were
these
distinguishedcharacters
"
worthy
the pen
of Plutarch.
Note
60,
page
231.
a;quora
Suave,
E
terra
mari
magno, "c.
vcntis,
Lucretius.
magnum,
This
all the
opinionof
Lucretius
error.
"
has The
been
repeated with
derive
obstinacyof
we pleasure,
NOTES. from
the
337
from spring tragedy,
has been mistaken and
an
of terror,and objects
source
from which
same
; a source,
by
the Abbe
"
du
A
by Burke.
argument,
few
to
conclude
which
has
the occupied
for seventeen
hundred excited
The
ings feelexcite
of
their
mankind
are
which by objects,
manner,
one as
planets
as
word,
Lord
Kaims
says,
sympathyis attractive.
"
Note The
and
:" ginseng
61,
page
232.
found
in many
parts of Tartary.
"
called
by
the the
Manchews,
remarkable
orhota.
This
plantis
said to possess
to.
"
between
have
was
Chinese
and
Eastern
the radix
Tartars."
Boer-
that opinion,
medical been
ginseng."This
North
America."
root
has
also discovered
The
The
at
ginsengwas
sold,near
an
hundred
ago,
25?.
62,
from
:
page
240.
This
idea is taken
that
beautiful
passage
in
Akenside, where
VOT" II.
he says
338
NOTES.
For
as
old
Memnon's
image, long
the each
renown'd
By fabling Nilus, to
Of
quivering touch
repulsive string
the
Titan's
ray, with
Consenting, sounded
Unbidden strains.
through
warbling air
Akenside passage
in
seems
to
have
caught
one
of
Moliere's
comedies
moms
selle, Mademoi-
says de Memnon
a
Diaforius, ne
rendoit
etre
sens im
plus,ne
son
que la statue
harmonieux
du
lorsqiCelle
de V
venoit
meme
eclair ee
des
rayons
doux
"
soleil : tout
me
je
anime
vos
d'un
transport a
La
rition appa-
du Act "naire,
soleil de
II. sc.
beatities.
Malade
Imagi-
5.
Note Omitted.
63 "
64,
page
250
"
264.
Note
"
65,
a
page
265.
peasant," says
"
celebrated
a
French
in valley
*,
of the
led
happy
"
life in
small
Alps.
stream,
his
descending from
"
the
tains, moun-
fertilized
adored
garden.
increased
summer.
For
long
who
time
he
in peace
and
Naiad,
its
"
supplied
its
the
current, with
his
quantityand
one
coolness it into
the heat of
that
He and
day
took
the
"
head,
she
he would
go
discover
urn.
place,where
To
ensure
concealed he
her inexhaustible
to
trace
success,
began
upwards the
St. Pierre.
NOTES.
of
339
current
his
brook.
"
He
mountain." thousand
and
new
vast
with
where
"
hope
after
of
soon
at arriving
abode,
the
at
the
destinyof
he
sees
world.
the
But
a
toilsome
journey,
"
arrives
foot of
him
tremendous
glacier. He
but
and
sweet
humble
"
cot, His
or
the
beneficent
Naiad,
all
peared. disap-
cloud, and
his
enormous divinity
of ice !"""
Note
"
66,
page
266. says
It has
often
struck
me,"
Mr.
Price, "
that
the
whole
that
system
of
of Venetian
Giorgione and
Titian, which
great object of
tints of
was hnitation,)
formed
autumn,
that
and
that
their
which such
pictureshave givesthem,
a as
thence Joshua
golden hue,
Sir
over
Reynolds observes,
"
superiority strongly
and rich
Their other
"
trees, "c.
have, more
than browns
any
of that in the
season.
The
their the
same
generalblue
even
vails pre-
drapery of
has
and figures,
silver but
in their
flesh,which
nor
neither
of
purityof Guido,
a
the
freshness
Rubens,
glow perhaps
340
NOTES.
more
enchanting
than
either.""
Price's
Essays,
p. 197-" Note
67,
page
269.
Omitted. Note
Vide Moschus
68,
page
on
269.
the death
8.
"
in his poem
iv.
of Bion
imitated
"
by Horace, Lib.
:
Od.
Diffugere nives
redeunt
:"
jam
"c.
gramina campis,
"
Arboribisque comae
Hermit
is
"
"c.
Beattie's
conclusive
answer
to
the
Moschus.
may
have
been
may
his
and reading,
ever what-
be his
we faith,
triumphantly challenge
a
boldest
of critics
to
produce
and
poem
more
mirable ad-
of
language,more
the
abounding
union
and
of the
more
solemn
in magnificent
than
the
15th
"
chapter of
Had
it been
Epistleto
the
Corinthians.
even
written
have
by Mahomet,
confessed, that
and
Dr. Lowth
had
himself exceeded
must
Mahomet been
the
of Job, sublirtSty
even
touched
Isaiah himself.
T.