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upon his cheek like raindrops. Cagliostro was weeping. FOOTNOTES: [5] Beranger has already conveyed this truth through the melody of his delicious verse:-- "Le vois-tu bien, la-bas, la-bas, La-bas, la-bas? dit l'Esperance; Bourgeois, manants, rois et prelats Lui font de loin la reverence. C'est le Bonheur, dit l'Esperance. Courons, courons; doublons le pas, Pour le trouver la-bas, la-bas, La-bas, la-bas." [6] "I did not dare to breathe aloud the unhallowed anguish of my mind to the majesty of the unsympathising stars."--See _Falkland_. [7] "Motus autem siderum," such is the reverent and sententious remark of Grotius, "qui eccentrici, quique epicyclici dicuntur, manifeste ostendunt _non vim materiae, sed liberi agentis ordinationem_."--See _De Veritate Rel. Christ. Lib._ i. Sec. 7. [8] "Now, there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears, by stealth as it were, received the veins of its whisper."--_Job_, chap. iv. verse 12. [9] "There is a roaring in the bleak-grown pines When Winter lifts his voice; there is a noise Among immortals when a god gives sign With hushing finger, how he means to load His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought, With thunder, and with music, and with pomp." Such are the majestic syllables which preface the speech of Saturn in _Hyperion_. Keats was ridding himself of the puerilities of Cockaigne when he wrote that fragment of an epic--a fragment which is unsurpassed by any modern attempt at heroic composition. In reading it, the very earth seems shaking with the footsteps of fallen divinities. Even Byron, who, like ourselves, had no great predilection for the school in which the poetic genius of John Keats was germinated, has emphatically said of _Hyperion_ that "it seems actually inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as AEschylus."--See _Byron's Works_, vol. xv., p. 92. [10] Thus writes Suetonius--"praegrandibus oculis, qui, quod mirum esset, noctu etiam et in tenebris, viderent, sed ad breve, et quum primum a somno patuissent; deinde rursum hebescebant."--_Tib._ cap. lxviii. [11] Those who are familiar with the classic historians, will see in this description no exaggeration whatever. Instruments for the destruction of life yet more awful and mysterious, were employed by many of the predecessors, and many of the successors of Tiberius, as well as by Tiberius himself: and modern science has shown that these devi
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