The bar of gold above the instep is a mark of sovereign rank in the women of the families of the Deys, and is worn as such by their female relatives. [Vide Eclectic Review] ↩
This is no exaggeration: there were four women whom I remember to have seen, who possessed their hair in this profusion; of these, three were English, the other was a Levantine. Their hair was of that length and quantity, that, when let down, it almost entirely shaded the person, so as nearly to render dress a superfluity. Of these, only one had dark hair; the Oriental’s had, perhaps, the lightest colour of the four. ↩
Compare—
“Yet there was round thee such a dawn
Song by Rev. C. Wolfe (1791–1823)
Of Light ne’er seen before,
As Fancy never could have drawn,
And never can restore.”
Compare, too—
“She was a form of Life and Light
The Giaour, lines 1127, 1128
That, seen, became a part of sight.”
—Editor ↩
“… but Psyche owns no lord—
The Golden Ass of Apuleius; in English verse, entitled “Cupid and Psyche,” by Hudson Gurney, 1799
She walks a goddess from above;
All saw, all praised her, all adored,
But no one ever dared to love.”
—Editor ↩
King John, act IV sc. 2, line 11. —Editor ↩
“Richard Crashaw (died 1650), the friend of Cowley, was honoured,” says Warton, “with the praise of Pope; who both read his poems and borrowed from them. After he was ejected from his Fellowship at Peterhouse for denying the covenant, he turned Roman Catholic, and died canon of the church at Loretto.”
Cowley sang his “In Memoriam”—
“Angels (they say) brought the famed Chappel there;
The Works, etc., 1668, pp. 29, 30
And bore the sacred Load in Triumph through the air:—
’Tis surer much they brought thee there, and They,
And Thou, their charge, went singing all the way.”
—Editor ↩
Believed like Southey—and perused like Crashaw.
—[MS.]
The second chapter of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is on the “supposed irritability of men of genius.” Ed. 1847, I 29. —Editor ↩
Their poet a sad Southey.
—[MS. D]
Of rogues—.
—[MS. D]
Of which the causers never know the cause.
—[MS. D]
Vide St. August. Epist., XXXVI, cap. XIV,
“Ille [Ambrosius, Mediolanensis Episcopus] adjecit; Quando hic sum, non jejuno sabbato; quando Romae sum, jejuno sabbato.”
—Migne’s Patrologiae Cursus, 1845, XXXIII 151
—Editor ↩
From the high lyrical to the low rational.
—[MS. D]
The allusion is to Coleridge’s eulogy of Southey in the Biographia Literaria (ed. 1847, I 61):
“In poetry he has attempted almost every species of composition known before, and he has added new ones; and if we except the very highest lyric … he has attempted every species successfully.”
But the satire, primarily and ostensibly aimed at Southey, now and again glances at Southey’s eulogist.] ↩
[“Goethe pourroit représenter la littérature allemande toute entière.”
—De L’Allemagne, par Mme. la Baronne de Staël-Holstein, 1818, I 227
—Editor ↩
The poet is not “a sad Southey,” but is sketched from memory.
“Lord Byron,” writes Finlay (History of Greece, VI 335, note), “used to describe an evening passed in the company of Londos [a Morean landowner, who took part in the first and second Greek Civil Wars], at Vostitza (in 1809), when both were young men, with a spirit that rendered the scene worthy of a place in Don Juan. After supper Londos, who had the face and figure of a chimpanzee, sprang upon a table, … and commenced singing through his nose Rhiga’s Hymn to Liberty. A new qadi, passing near the house, inquired the cause of the discordant hubbub. A native Mussulman replied, ‘It is only the young primate Londos, who is drunk, and is singing hymns to the new panaghia of the Greeks, whom they call Eleutheria.’ ”
(See letter to Andreas Londos (undated), Letters, 1901, VI 320, note 1.) —Editor ↩
The Μακάρων νῆσοι [Hesiod, Works and Days, line 169] of the Greek poets were supposed to have been the Cape de Verd Islands, or the Canaries. ↩
Euboea looks on Marathon,
—[MS.]
And Marathon looks on the sea, etc.
See Aeschylus, Persae, 463, sq.; and Herodotus, VIII 90. Harpocration records the preservation, in the Acropolis, of the silver-footed throne on which Xerxes sat when he watched the battle of Salamis from the slope of Mount Aegaleos. —Editor ↩
The Heroic heart awakes no more.
—[MS. D]
For “that most ancient military dance, the Pyrrhica,” see Travels, by E. D. Clarke, 1814, part II sect. 11, p. 641; and for specimens of “Cadmean characters,” vide Travels, p. 593. —Editor ↩
After his birthplace Teos was taken by the Persians, BC 510, Anacreon migrated to Abdera, but afterwards lived at Samos, under the protection of Polycrates. —Editor ↩
Which Hercules might deem his own.
—[MS.]
See the translation of a speech delivered to the Pargiots, in 1815, by an aged citizen:
“I exhort you well to consider, before you yield yourselves up to the English, that the King of England now has in his pay all the kings of Europe—obtaining money for this purpose from his merchants; whence, should it become advantageous to the merchants to sell you, in order to conciliate Ali, and obtain certain commercial advantages in his harbours, the English will sell you to Ali.”
—“Parga,” Edinburgh Review, October, 1819. vol. 32, pp. 263–293
Here, perhaps, the “Franks” are the
