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only of his sufferings.] [205] {478}[So, too, Prospero to Caliban, _Tempest_, act i. sc. 2, line 309, etc.] [206] {479}[Compare--"Have not partook oppression." _Marino Faliero_, act i. sc. 2, line 468, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 362, note 1.] [207] {480}[Compare the story of the philosopher Jamblichus and the raising of Eros and Anteros from their "fountain-dwellings."--_Manfred_, act ii. sc. 2, line 93, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 105, note 2.] [cw] {481} _Give me the strength of the buffalo's foot_ (_which marks me_).--[MS.] [cx] _The sailless dromedary_----.--[MS.] [cy] {482} _Now I can gibe the mightiest_.--[MS.] [208] {483}[So, too, in _The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus_ (Marlowe's _Works_, 1858, p. 112), Faustus stabs his arm, "and with his proper blood Assures his soul to be great Lucifer's."] [cz] _Walk lively and pliant_. _You shall rise up as pliant_.--[MS, erased.] [209] This is a well-known German superstition--a gigantic shadow produced by reflection on the Brocken. [See Brewster's _Letters on Natural Magic_, 1831, p. 128.] [da] _And such my command_.--[MS.] [210] {484}["Nigris vegetisque oculis."--Suetonius, _Vitae C. Julius Caesar_, cap. xiv., _Opera Omnia_, 1826, i. 105.] [211] [_Vide post_, p. 501, note 1.] [212] ["Sed ante alias [Julius Caesar] dilexit M. Bruti matrem Serviliam ... dilexit et reginas ... sed maxime Cleopatram" (_ibid._, i. 113, 115). Cleopatra, born B.C. 69, was twenty-one years old when she met Caesar, B.C. 48.] [db] _And can_ _It be? the man who shook the earth is gone_.--[MS.] [213] {485}["Upon the whole, it may be doubted whether there be a name of Antiquity which comes down with such a general charm as that of _Alcibiades_. _Why?_ I cannot answer: who can?"--_Detached Thoughts_ (1821), No. 108, _Letters_, 1901, v. 461. For Sir Walter Scott's note on this passage, see _Letters_, 1900, iv. 77, 78, note 2.] [214] [The outside of Socrates was that of a satyr and buffoon, but his soul was all virtue, and from within him came such divine and pathetic things, as pierced the heart, and drew tears from the hearers.--Plato, _Symp_., p. 216, D.] [215] {486}["Anthony had a noble dignity of countenance, a graceful length of beard, a large forehead, an aquiline nose: and, upon the whole, the same manly aspect that we see in the pictures and statues of Hercules."--Plutarch's _Lives_, Langhorne's Translat
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