Angiolina might surely have omitted this particular
instance of the avenging vigilance of "Great Nemesis.
instance of the avenging vigilance of "Great Nemesis.
Byron
Eng.
Dict.
_, art.
"aerie. "]
[fj] _Of his high aiery_----. --[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[460] [_Vide_ Suetonius, _De XII. Caesaribus_, lib. iv. cap. 56, ed.
1691, p. 427.
Angiolina might surely have omitted this particular
instance of the avenging vigilance of "Great Nemesis. "]
[461] {446}[The story is told in Plutarch's _Alexander_, cap. 38.
Compare--
"And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Thais led the way,
To light him to his prey,
And like another Helen, fired another Troy. "
Dryden's _Alexanders Feast_, vi. lines 25-28. ]
[462] [Byron's imagination was prone to dwell on the "earthworm's slimy
brood. " Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanzas v. , vi. Dallas
(_Recollections of Lord Byron_, 1824, p. 124) once ventured to remind
his noble connection "that although our senses make us acquainted with
the chemical decomposition of our bodies," there were other and more
hopeful considerations to be entertained. But Byron was obdurate, "and
the worms crept in and the worms crept out" as unpleasantly as
heretofore. ]
[fk] ----_you call your duty_. --[Alternative reading. MS.
"aerie. "]
[fj] _Of his high aiery_----. --[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[460] [_Vide_ Suetonius, _De XII. Caesaribus_, lib. iv. cap. 56, ed.
1691, p. 427.
Angiolina might surely have omitted this particular
instance of the avenging vigilance of "Great Nemesis. "]
[461] {446}[The story is told in Plutarch's _Alexander_, cap. 38.
Compare--
"And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Thais led the way,
To light him to his prey,
And like another Helen, fired another Troy. "
Dryden's _Alexanders Feast_, vi. lines 25-28. ]
[462] [Byron's imagination was prone to dwell on the "earthworm's slimy
brood. " Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanzas v. , vi. Dallas
(_Recollections of Lord Byron_, 1824, p. 124) once ventured to remind
his noble connection "that although our senses make us acquainted with
the chemical decomposition of our bodies," there were other and more
hopeful considerations to be entertained. But Byron was obdurate, "and
the worms crept in and the worms crept out" as unpleasantly as
heretofore. ]
[fk] ----_you call your duty_. --[Alternative reading. MS.
