It is in vain to seek in this air for energetic
accents capable of producing such astonishing effects, for which
strangers are unable to account from the music, which is in itself
uncouth and wild.
accents capable of producing such astonishing effects, for which
strangers are unable to account from the music, which is in itself
uncouth and wild.
Byron
.
and as the spires and cupolas of Venice come forth in the
lustre of the mid-day sun, and its palaces, half-veiled in the aerial
tints of distance, gradually assume their superb proportions, then the
dream of many a youthful vigil is realized" (_ibid_. , ii. 449). ]
[63] [Compare _Marino Faliero_, act ii. sc. 2, line 110, _Poetical
Works_, 901, iv. 386, note 3. ]
[64] {159} The Calenture. --[From the Spanish _Calentura_, a fever
peculiar to sailors within the tropics--
"So, by a calenture misled,
The mariner with rapture sees,
On the smooth ocean's azure bed,
Enamelled fields and verdant trees:
With eager haste he longs to rove
In that fantastic scene, and thinks
It must be some enchanted grove;
And in he leaps, and down he sinks. "
Swift, _The South-Sea Project_, 1721, ed. 1824, xiv. 147. ]
[65] Alluding to the Swiss air and its effects. --[The _Ranz des Vaches_,
played upon the bag-pipe by the young cowkeepers on the mountains:--"An
air," says Rousseau, "so dear to the Swiss, that it was forbidden, under
the pain of death, to play it to the troops, as it immediately drew
tears from them, and made those who heard it desert, or die of what is
called _la maladie du pais_, so ardent a desire did it excite to return
to their country.
It is in vain to seek in this air for energetic
accents capable of producing such astonishing effects, for which
strangers are unable to account from the music, which is in itself
uncouth and wild. But it is from habit, recollections, and a thousand
circumstances, retraced in this tune by those natives who hear it, and
reminding them of their country, former pleasures of their youth, and
all their ways of living, which occasion a bitter reflection at having
lost them. " Compare Byron's Swiss "Journal" for September 19, 1816,
_Letters_, 1899, ii. 355. ]
[bn] _That malady, which_----. --[MS. M. ]
[66] [Compare _Don Juan_, Canto XVI. stanza xlvi. lines 6, 7--
"The calentures of music which o'ercome
The mountaineers with dreams that they are highlands. "]
[bo] {160} ----_upon your native towers_. --[MS. M. ]
[bp] {162} _Come you here to insult us_----. --[MS. M.
lustre of the mid-day sun, and its palaces, half-veiled in the aerial
tints of distance, gradually assume their superb proportions, then the
dream of many a youthful vigil is realized" (_ibid_. , ii. 449). ]
[63] [Compare _Marino Faliero_, act ii. sc. 2, line 110, _Poetical
Works_, 901, iv. 386, note 3. ]
[64] {159} The Calenture. --[From the Spanish _Calentura_, a fever
peculiar to sailors within the tropics--
"So, by a calenture misled,
The mariner with rapture sees,
On the smooth ocean's azure bed,
Enamelled fields and verdant trees:
With eager haste he longs to rove
In that fantastic scene, and thinks
It must be some enchanted grove;
And in he leaps, and down he sinks. "
Swift, _The South-Sea Project_, 1721, ed. 1824, xiv. 147. ]
[65] Alluding to the Swiss air and its effects. --[The _Ranz des Vaches_,
played upon the bag-pipe by the young cowkeepers on the mountains:--"An
air," says Rousseau, "so dear to the Swiss, that it was forbidden, under
the pain of death, to play it to the troops, as it immediately drew
tears from them, and made those who heard it desert, or die of what is
called _la maladie du pais_, so ardent a desire did it excite to return
to their country.
It is in vain to seek in this air for energetic
accents capable of producing such astonishing effects, for which
strangers are unable to account from the music, which is in itself
uncouth and wild. But it is from habit, recollections, and a thousand
circumstances, retraced in this tune by those natives who hear it, and
reminding them of their country, former pleasures of their youth, and
all their ways of living, which occasion a bitter reflection at having
lost them. " Compare Byron's Swiss "Journal" for September 19, 1816,
_Letters_, 1899, ii. 355. ]
[bn] _That malady, which_----. --[MS. M. ]
[66] [Compare _Don Juan_, Canto XVI. stanza xlvi. lines 6, 7--
"The calentures of music which o'ercome
The mountaineers with dreams that they are highlands. "]
[bo] {160} ----_upon your native towers_. --[MS. M. ]
[bp] {162} _Come you here to insult us_----. --[MS. M.
