REFERENCES AND TRANSLATIONS. Thinking the catalogue would be unnecessary to those who love poetry, and tedious to those who do not, I have not included in this Index references to the shorter quotations and allusions in the text. This addition would indeed have almost amounted to another volume. The writer has borrowed on all sides : he is more Editor than Author: readers inclined to approve any single thought or phrase will do well, (he warns them), to reserve their favour for those, qui ante nos nostra dixere. JUNE, 1857. PAGE 2 (1) From all who know love by trial I hope to find pity, if not pardon.--PETRARCH: Son. i. (2) I am not made like any other men I have seen.-ROUSSEAU: Confessions, B. i. 3 They put up a fine statue to Time, with this inscription, TO THE CONSOLER.-VOLTAIRE : Les deux Consolés. 4 AUGUSTINE: Confessions, B. xi, c. 2. 5 Infantia mea olim mortua est, et ego vivo.-Confessions, B. i, c. 6. 7 Little one, I saw you gathering the dewy apples in our orchard croft with your mother, and I was your guide; I was young in my twelfth year then: I saw, I was undone, ah how! -VIRGIL: Ecl. viii, 37. 8 I cannot rightly tell how I entered it.— Inferno, c. i. 11 Our way of life and dwelling places are still always the same, and no new pleasure forges itself as we live on.—LUCRETIUS: B. iii, 1078. 16 Winter's Tale, Act i. sc. 2. PAGB 17 If I interweave truth with ornament, if in some part I grace my pages with other charms than thine.-T. Tasso : Gierusalemme, C. i, st. 2. 22 RUSKIN, Notes on the Turner Gallery. 25 The Presence of the Gods becomes visible and their tranquil dwelling-places: the winds cannot shake, or the mists encloud them; the hoary snow, gathering beneath the energy of frost, forces no entrance nor can rest there; cloudless aether ever surrounds, and smiles on them in floods of immeasurable radiance.—LUCRETIUS : B. iii, 18. 27 If such glory has any real weight.–VIRGIL: Aeneid, B. vii, 4. 28 (1) Lavinia my bride is thine. (2) Lycoris, here are fresh springs, here are trees and deep meadows; here I could consume an eternity on love and thee.--VIRGIL: Ecl. x, 42. 31 The spirit of Youth. 32 As a translation, I shall quote a fragment from André Chénier; Et les baisers secrets et les lits clandestins. The original is from MIMNERMUS: Nanno. 33 Her bearing, words, countenance, and dress.—PETRARCH : Son. cclxxii. 35 She hears men praise her and passes on veiled in the grace of modesty, and seems a Miracle sent earth from heaven.-Vita Nuova: Son. xiii. 36 Dante has told this vision twice: the translation in the text is adapted from both versions. Pareami vedere il sole oscurare sì che le stelle si mostravano d'un colore che mi facea giudicare che piangessero : parevami che gli uccelli volando cadessero morti, e che fossero grandissimi terremoti. Ed uom m'apparve scolorito e fioco Morta è la donna tua, ch' era sì bella. –διακειμένοις ούτω περίέσεσθαι Τίμων [Φλιάσιος] φησί πρώτον μεν αφασίαν, έπειτα δ' αταραξία». Preller: Hist. of Philos. § 347, ed. 1838. 42 (1) Vaudracour and Julia. (2) KEBLE: Christian Year. 50 Von Suleika zu Suleika West-östlicher Divan, Buch Suleika. e e PAGE 56... herald'... 'Aών ον αεροφοίτων ION OF Chios. - vidimi translato Per l'affocato riso della stella, Paradiso, c. xiv. 64 I miei pensier nel cuor vostro si fanno, MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Rime. 65 (1) The perfect life of love and of peace.- Paradiso, c. xxvii. (2) Master of those that know.--Inferno, c. iv. (3) . . accompany it'. έoικεν η μεγαλοψυχία οίον κόσμος της είναι των αρετών μείζoυς γαρ αυτάς ποιεί, και ου γίνεται άνευ εκείνων. - ARISTOTLE: N. Ethics, B. iv, c. 7. 60 . . as Aristotle observes μεγαλοψύχου. υπηρετείν προθύμως, και προς μεν τους εν αξιώματι μέγαν είναι, προς δε τους μέσους μέτριον. - Ν. Ειhics, B. iv, c. 8. 67 At her side to share the sweet voice and the delightsome smile . ..-SAPPHO, Ode II. 68 (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. 69 The small short words one cannot say without smiling. Paradiso, c. i. 70 ... the Spanish motto.—Now and Ever. 72 AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, 1. 251. Ed. Dind. 74 To burn what I had worshipped, to worship what I had once burned. 77 -books, we know, Are a substantial world . WORDSWORTH: Personal Talk, Son. III. 78 Studies pass into habits. 79 · Delian diver': see DIOGENES LAERT. ix, i. · Ionian Muses': see PRELLER, $ 37. 6 PAGE 87 . .. the passionate poet Nam cum suspicimus magni caelestia mundi LUCRETIUS, B. v, 1202–15. 88 (1) I am terrified by the eternal silence of these infinite spaces. (2) All earthly things are true in part, false in part. All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists: But their conclusions are false, because the contradictory principles are true also. Those reasons which from afar seemed to bound our horizon, when we have reached it, bound no longer: we begin to look beyond them. (3) It is frightful, to feel all that we hold securest crumble away. (4) Seeing too much for Scepticism and too little for Faith. 89 'Tis a wise ignorance which knows itself. The quotations in the text will be found respectively on pp. 224, vol. I: 97,11: 92,II: 215,1: 80,II: 118, II: 181, I, of Faugère's complete edition (1844). I give the references, because these passages by Roman Catholic editors have been (since 1848) so transposed and mutilated (when not omitted altogether), that they assume a meaning diametrically opposite to the author's intention. This ingenuity is no doubt profitable to the cause which it is intended to serve, but Englishmen may venture to question whether it be perfectly just to Pascal. 90 SHELLEY: Defence of Poetry. 91 The quotations in the text are from CARLYLE's Miscellanies, Vol. I, Burns : from Sartor Resartus, B. II, c. 9; and from the French Revolution, Vol. I, c. 2. 94 —one of the most competent of observers. M. D. HILL: Causes of Crime, 1857. 96 Sonnet LXVI. 97 WORDSWORTH: The Russian Fugitive. 98 Plato's graceful words, Ο νουν έχων γεωργός ... σπουδή αν θέρους εις 'Αδώνιδος κήπους αρών χαίροι θεωρών καλούς εν ημίραισιν οκτώ γιγνομένους. .. Phaedrus, c. lxi. 99 ... more surely than Laura's. Lei non trov'io, ma suoi santi vestigi Tutti rivolti alla superna strada PETRARCH: Son. cclxv. PINDAR: 01. xiii. 6 |