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.
farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it
not a reality but a dream.
Iliad - Pope
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. 639
220 --_Red drops of blood. _ "This phenomenon, if a mere fruit of the
poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched. It is one,
however, of ascertained reality, and of no uncommon occurrence in
the climate of Greece. "--Mure, i p. 493. Cf. Tasso, Gier. Lib. ix.
15:
"La terra in vece del notturno gelo
Bagnan rugiade tepide, e sanguigne.
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. 639
220 --_Red drops of blood. _ "This phenomenon, if a mere fruit of the
poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched. It is one,
however, of ascertained reality, and of no uncommon occurrence in
the climate of Greece. "--Mure, i p. 493. Cf. Tasso, Gier. Lib. ix.
15:
"La terra in vece del notturno gelo
Bagnan rugiade tepide, e sanguigne.
