The accents rattle-Give thy prayers to heaven – Pray- albeit but in thought, but die not thus. MAN. Tis over my dull eyes But all things swim around me, Heaves as it were beneath me. Give me thy hand! can fix thee not; and the earth Fare thee well But yet one prayer alas! how fares it with thee? MAN. Old man! 'tis not so difficult to die. [MANFRED expires. ABBOT. He's gone his soul hath ta'en its earthless flight Whither? I dread to think but he is gone. NOTE S. Note 1, page 83, line 1. the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven. This iris is formed by the rays of the sun over the lower part of the Alpine torrents: it is exactly like a rainy bow, come down to pay a visit, and so close that you may walk into it: this effects lasts till noon. Note 2, page 87, line 7. He who from out their fountain dwellings raised The philosopher Iamblicus. The story of the raising of Eros and Anteros may be found in his life, by Eunapius. It is well told. Note 3, page 91, line 16. she replied In words of dubious import, but fulfill'd. The story of Pausanias, king of Sparta, (who commanded, the Greeks at the battle of Platea, and afterwards perished for an attempt to betray the Lacedemonians) and Cleonice is told in Plutarch's life of Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the Sophist, in his description of Greece. Note 4, page 113, line 16. the giant sons Of the embrace of angels. "That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair etc." "There were giants in the carth in those days; and also after that, when the Sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of Fenown," Genesis, ch. VI. verses 2 and 4. Ar Ferrara (in the library) are preserved the original MSS. of Tasso's Gierusalemme and of Guarini's Pastor Fido, with letters of Tasso, one from Titian to Ariosto; and the inkstand and chair, the tomb and the house of the latter. But as misfortune has a greater interest for posterity, and little or none for the cotemporary, the cell where Tasso was confined in the hospital of St. Anna attracts a more fixed attention than the residence or the monument of Ariosto at least it had this effect on me. There are two inscriptions, one on the outer gate, the second over the cell itself, inviting, unnecessarily, the wonder and the indignation of the spectator. Ferrara is much decayed, and depopulated; the castle still exists entire; and I saw the court where Parisina and Hugo were beheaded, according to the annal of Gibbon. |