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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