NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. SAPPHO, LEGEND OF GENEVIEVE, I am not so unfortunate As she P. 15. Childless in old age.-P. 21. The malediction contained in the concluding lines of this paragraph, is liable to the censure of being too dark and strong for the lips of a daughter to utter. Parallel instances might, however, easily be adduced, among which is one, in the exquisite O'Connor's Child of Campbell, and another in the tragedy of Horace, by Corneille.-(1817.) Five years after penning this Note, I find another remarkable illustration in Lord Byron's splendid but ill-judged poem of Juan. Indeed, the situations in both poems are so similar, (comparisons I dare not challenge,) that, but for this avowal of priority, I might be suspected of plagiarism. Inmates of that city lone, Where life was conjured into stone.-P. 28. Ras Sem, or the petrified city.-M. de la Maire and Dr Shaw have satisfactorily enough examined into the truth of this African tradition. Cassem Aga, the Tripoline ambassador, gives, it must be allowed, a very different account of the matter. -Belshazzer, terror-smote, Beheld the armless hand that wrote His doom upon the palace wall.-P. 30. See Jeremiah, Chap. 1. ver. 1.-This miracle has, of late years, been a favourite subject both with painters and poets. We allude to Byron, Milman, and Martin. MINER OF PERU. -Chacras lonely.-P. 51. The farm-steading of the South American agriculturist. -Upon the waters floated men In their last sleep.-P. 55. This story is not altogether fanciful, but is founded on an incident said to have occurred within these five or six years in Sweden. The scene is transferred to another hemisphere, on account of the superior advantages afforded for poetical illustration. -the congregated Guassos.-P. 56. Chilian peasantry.-Captain Basil Hall has lately put the public in possession of a most interesting account of their habits, and peculiar modes of life. MARY'S MOUNT. Amid Carberry's beechen grove.-P. 61. For an account of this action, so fatal to the interests of the unfortunate Mary, the reader is referred to Robertson's History, vol. I., book iv., Whittaker's Mary Vindicated, vol. I., chap. 4, sect. 3; also to Goodall's Examination of the Letters said to be written by Mary to Bothwell. |