p, 180, that the law of honour among the Greeks
did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to conceive that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood.
did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to conceive that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood.
Iliad - Pope
--
"Many gifts he gave, and o'er
Dolopia bade me rule; thee in his arms
He brought an infant, on my bosom laid
The precious charge, and anxiously enjoin'd
That I should rear thee as my own with all
A parent's love. I fail'd not in my trust
And oft, while round my neck thy hands were lock'd,
From thy sweet lips the half articulate sound
Of Father came; and oft, as children use,
Mewling and puking didst thou drench my tunic. "
"This description," observes my learned friend (notes, p. 121) "is
taken from the passage of Homer, II ix, in translating which, Pope,
with that squeamish, artificial taste, which distinguished the age
of Anne, omits the natural (and, let me add, affecting)
circumstance. "
"And the wine
Held to thy lips, and many a time in fits
Of infant frowardness the purple juice
Rejecting thou hast deluged all my vest,
And fill'd my bosom. "
--Cowper.
212 --_Where Calydon. _ For a good sketch of the story of Meleager, too
long to be inserted here, see Grote, vol. i. p. 195, sqq. ; and for
the authorities, see my notes to the prose translation, p. 166.
213 "_Gifts can conquer_"--It is well observed by Bishop Thirlwall,
"Greece," vol. i.
p, 180, that the law of honour among the Greeks
did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to conceive that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood. Even for real and deep injuries they were commonly willing
to accept a pecuniary compensation. "
214 "The boon of sleep. "--Milton
215 "All else of nature's common gift partake:
Unhappy Dido was alone awake. "
--Dryden's Virgil, iv. 767.
216 --_The king of Crete:_ Idomeneus.
217 --_Soft wool within, i e. _ a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in
between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit
close.
218 "All the circumstances of this action--the night, Rhesus buried in a
profound sleep, and Diomede with the sword in his hand hanging over
the head of that prince--furnished Homer with the idea of this
fiction, which represents Rhesus lying fast asleep, and, as it were,
beholding his enemy in a dream, plunging the sword into his bosom.
This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no
farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it
not a reality but a dream. "--Pope.
"There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cry'd murder;
They wak'd each other. "
--_Macbeth. _
219 "Aurora now had left her saffron bed,
And beams of early light the heavens o'erspread. "
Dryden's Virgil, iv.
"Many gifts he gave, and o'er
Dolopia bade me rule; thee in his arms
He brought an infant, on my bosom laid
The precious charge, and anxiously enjoin'd
That I should rear thee as my own with all
A parent's love. I fail'd not in my trust
And oft, while round my neck thy hands were lock'd,
From thy sweet lips the half articulate sound
Of Father came; and oft, as children use,
Mewling and puking didst thou drench my tunic. "
"This description," observes my learned friend (notes, p. 121) "is
taken from the passage of Homer, II ix, in translating which, Pope,
with that squeamish, artificial taste, which distinguished the age
of Anne, omits the natural (and, let me add, affecting)
circumstance. "
"And the wine
Held to thy lips, and many a time in fits
Of infant frowardness the purple juice
Rejecting thou hast deluged all my vest,
And fill'd my bosom. "
--Cowper.
212 --_Where Calydon. _ For a good sketch of the story of Meleager, too
long to be inserted here, see Grote, vol. i. p. 195, sqq. ; and for
the authorities, see my notes to the prose translation, p. 166.
213 "_Gifts can conquer_"--It is well observed by Bishop Thirlwall,
"Greece," vol. i.
p, 180, that the law of honour among the Greeks
did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to conceive that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood. Even for real and deep injuries they were commonly willing
to accept a pecuniary compensation. "
214 "The boon of sleep. "--Milton
215 "All else of nature's common gift partake:
Unhappy Dido was alone awake. "
--Dryden's Virgil, iv. 767.
216 --_The king of Crete:_ Idomeneus.
217 --_Soft wool within, i e. _ a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in
between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit
close.
218 "All the circumstances of this action--the night, Rhesus buried in a
profound sleep, and Diomede with the sword in his hand hanging over
the head of that prince--furnished Homer with the idea of this
fiction, which represents Rhesus lying fast asleep, and, as it were,
beholding his enemy in a dream, plunging the sword into his bosom.
This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no
farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it
not a reality but a dream. "--Pope.
"There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cry'd murder;
They wak'd each other. "
--_Macbeth. _
219 "Aurora now had left her saffron bed,
And beams of early light the heavens o'erspread. "
Dryden's Virgil, iv.
