Ist mein Kommen und mein Gehn. MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Rime. (2) The perfect life of love and of peace.-Paradiso, c. xxvii. 68 (1) Master of those that know.-Inferno, c. iv. (2). . accompany it '. ἔοικεν ἡ μεγαλοψυχία οἷον κόσμος τις εἶναι τῶν ἀρετῶν· μείζους γὰρ αὐτὰς ποιεῖ, καὶ οὐ γίνεται ἄνευ ἐκείνων.-ARISTOTLE : N. Ethics, B. iv, c. 7. 69.. as Aristotle observes 70 μεγαλοψύχου ... ὑπηρετεῖν προθύμως, καὶ πρὸς μὲν τοὺς ἐν ἀξιώματι μέγαν εἶναι, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς μέσους μέτριον.-Ν. Ethics, B. iv, c. 8. At her side to share the sweet voice and the delightsome smile . . . -SAPPHO, Ode II. 71 (1) The pearls and the garlands and the gay dresses, smile and song and sweet human voices.-PETRARCH: Son. ccxi. (2). . countenances '.-Sir T. BROWNE: Religio Medici. (3) DONNE: A Funeral Elegy. 72 The small short words one cannot say without smiling. Paradiso, c. i. 252 PAGE 73... the Spanish motto.-Now and Ever. 74 AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, 1. 251, Ed. Dind. burned. 77 To burn what I had worshipped, to worship what I had once -books, we know, WORDSWORTH : 81 Studies pass into habits. Personal Talk, Son. III. 'Delian diver': see DIOGENES LAERT. ix, i. Nam cum suspicimus magni caelestia mundi 91 (1). . . the passionate poet templa, super stellisque micantibus aethera fixum, etc. LUCRETIUS, B. v, 1202-15. All (2) I am terrified by the eternal silence of these infinite their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists: 92 (1) All earthly things are true in part, false in part. their conclusions are false, because the contradictory afar seemed to bound our horizon, when we have reached it, bound no longer: we begin to look beyond them. (2) It is frightful, to feel all that we hold securest crumble (3) Seeing too much for Scepticism and too little for Faith. (4) 'Tis a wise ignorance which knows itself. κήπους ἀρῶν χαίροι θεωρῶν καλοὺς ἐν ἡμέραισιν ὀκτὼ γιγνομένους. . . ; 106 The more we love, the less we trust the return we may have awakened It is perhaps a thing natural in deep and true affection to shrink from a decisive moment, however longed for, and to tremble even whilst hope passes into happiness.-Madame de STAEL: Corinne. work of a poet's loom. CATULLUS: Epithalamium Pelei et Thetidos. Tacitus has spoken of it . . . —Hist. iv, c. 77. Vade, inquit, a me, ita vivas; fieri non potest, ut filius istarum lacrimarum pereat.-AUGUSTINE: Confessions, 1. iii, c. 12. 123 A. TENNYSON: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. 125 (1) with one who came nearest . . . ... MILTON On Shakspeare, 1630. (2) Then was it as though the Heavens lightened; it seemed as if I had lost nothing, nothing: as if I had everything, which I had ever enjoyed.-GOETHE: Sonnets. 128 BUNYAN: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. 129 The soft disdain and soft repulses. T. TASSO: Aminta, Att. v. PAGE 132 -the poet's phrase. H. HEINE Neuer Frühling, xxxvii. 133 We must live whilst we live. 140 SHELLEY: The Recollection. 143 (1) For such a smile was glowing in her eyes, that with mine I thought I touched the deepest depth of grace and of Paradise.-Paradiso, c. XV. (2) Like doves that hear the call of passion.-Inferno, c. v. 151 Confessions, B. iv, c. 8. 154 (1) Like the desolate Phaedra 156 v. EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, 198, &c. Nare per aestatem liquidam. that something . . VIRGIL Geor. iv, 59. ὅ τι τοῦ ζῆν φίλτερον ἄλλο σκότος ἀμπίσχων κρύπτει νεφέλαις. Hippolytus, 1. 192, 3. Ed. Dind. a great poet.-H. HEINE: Reisebilder. 157 (1) MACHIAVELLI: Principe, cap. xxxvii. (2) Ah! if there be none who hears me with pity, PETRARCH: Canz. xvii. 158 Soon she spread far and wide that great secret of sadness, which she loves to utter to the ancient oaks and shores. 160 MME DE STAEL: Corinne. CHATEAUBRIAND: Atala. 161 the feeble you are not alone in misfortune. Consolatio usitata Non tibi hoc soli . . . non firmissima.— 166 We must seek consolation in sorrow, not in ourselves, not in other men, not in anything created; but in God. And the reason of this is that no creature can be the first cause PAGE of the events which we name evils: but that, as God's providence is their only and genuine cause, judge, and disposer, we must without question go straight to the source and ascend to the originator, if we would obtain real alleviation. Pensées, Vol. i, p. 18. 169 BYRON: Hebrew Melodies. 171 (1) overcome by the eternal wound.-LUCRETIUS: i, 34. (2) Live, then: of this passion no power can deprive thee. BOCCACCIO: L'Amorosa Fiammetta, Epilogue. 175.. obstinately strong'.-Troilus and Cressida, Act v, Sc. ii. 177 MACAULAY: Essay on Machiavelli. 179 If you have no care to learn the truth, here is enough to sanction quiet. But if with all your heart you would learn it, it is not enough, look closer; it would be enough for a speculative question, but here, where all is at stake. And yet, after a transient reflection of this sort, people will take their pleasure, &c.-PASCAL: Pensées, Vol. ii, P. 147. 180 Julian and Maddalo. 183 (1) That she would tell everything or nothing. (3) Pensées, Vol. ii, p. 118. (2) of Life'.-Measure for Measure, Act iii, sc. I. Surveying my portion in a life that is no life. EMPEDOCLES: Preller, § 169. 187 H. HEINE. 190 As he, who with panting breath has escaped from the deep sea to the shore, turns to the dangerous water and gazes. Inferno, i (Carlyle's translation). 191 (1) Soverchio di dolcezza.-Vita Nuova. (2) But thou lingerest: the day is going: young bride, come forth.-CATULLUS: In nuptias Juliae et Manlii. 192.. Vision.-DE QUINCEY: Confessions of an Opium Eater. Quella man già tanto desiata 195 (1) (2) A me parlando e sospirando porse; PETRARCH: Trionfo della Morte, c. ii. A holy-hearted Poet'.-KEBLE: Christian Year. 196 SHELLEY: Adonais. 201 What are these words? or where am I? and what deceives me except I myself and paramount passion? PETRARCH: Canz. xvii. |