[149] "The same day were all the
fountains
of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
and the windows of heaven were opened.
Byron
?
[Gela~ de\ dai/mon e)p' a)ndri\ thermo~] (line 560).
("The spirit mocketh the headlong soul. ")]
[147] {297}[Matthew Arnold, _Poetry of Byron_, 1881, xiv. , xv. , quotes
this line in proof of Byron's barbarian insensibility, "to the true
artist's fine passion for the correct use and consummate management of
words. "]
[148] {300} "[And] there were giants in the earth in those days; and . . .
after, . . . mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. "--_Genesis_
[vi. 4].
[149] "The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened. "--_Genesis_ [vii. II].
[150] {301}[Byron falls in with the popular theory as to the existence
of fossil remains of marine animals at a height above the level of the
sea. The "deluge" accounted for what was otherwise inexplicable. ]
[151] {302} The book of Enoch, preserved by the Ethiopians, is said by
them to be anterior to the flood.
[Some fragments of the _Book of Enoch_ (_vide ante_, Introduction to
_Heaven and Earth_, p. 281), which were included by Georgius Syncellus
(a Byzantine writer of the eighth century A. D. ) in his _Chronographia_,
pp. ii, 26 (_Corpus Script. Hist. Byzantintae_, 1829, i. 20), were
printed by J. J. Scaliger in 1606.
[Gela~ de\ dai/mon e)p' a)ndri\ thermo~] (line 560).
("The spirit mocketh the headlong soul. ")]
[147] {297}[Matthew Arnold, _Poetry of Byron_, 1881, xiv. , xv. , quotes
this line in proof of Byron's barbarian insensibility, "to the true
artist's fine passion for the correct use and consummate management of
words. "]
[148] {300} "[And] there were giants in the earth in those days; and . . .
after, . . . mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. "--_Genesis_
[vi. 4].
[149] "The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened. "--_Genesis_ [vii. II].
[150] {301}[Byron falls in with the popular theory as to the existence
of fossil remains of marine animals at a height above the level of the
sea. The "deluge" accounted for what was otherwise inexplicable. ]
[151] {302} The book of Enoch, preserved by the Ethiopians, is said by
them to be anterior to the flood.
[Some fragments of the _Book of Enoch_ (_vide ante_, Introduction to
_Heaven and Earth_, p. 281), which were included by Georgius Syncellus
(a Byzantine writer of the eighth century A. D. ) in his _Chronographia_,
pp. ii, 26 (_Corpus Script. Hist. Byzantintae_, 1829, i. 20), were
printed by J. J. Scaliger in 1606.
