Yet jarring sects convulse a sister isle And light with maddening hands the mutual pile. "Tis done, 'tis past, since Pallas warns in vain; The Furies seize her abdicated reign: Wide o'er the realm they wave their kindling brands, And wring her vitals with their fiery hands. But when the field is fought, the battle won, Though drench'd with gore, his woes are but begun : His deeper deeds as yet ye know by name; Now should they burst on thy devoted coast, Go, ask thy bosom who deserves them most. The law of heaven and earth is life for life, And she who raised, in vain regrets, the strife.” Notes to the Curse of Minerva. I. SOCRATES drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went down. 2. The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country; the days in winter are longer, but in summer of less duration. 3. The kiosk is a Turkish summer-house; the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree the wall intervenes. Cephisus' stream is indeed scanty, and Ilissus has no stream at all. 4. This is spoken of the city in general, and not of the Acropolis in particular. The temple of Jupiter Olympius, by some supposed the Pantheon, was finished by Hadrian; sixteen columns are standing, of the most beautiful marble and architecture. 5. His lordship's name, and that of one who no longer bears it, are carved conspicuously on the Parthenon; above, in a part not far distant, are the torn remnants of the basso-relievos, destroyed in a vain attempt to remove them. [In another place there was deeply cut lin a plaster wall the words "QUOD NON FECERUNT GOTI, 6. "Irish bastards," according to Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan. 7. Mr West, on seeing the "Elgin Collection," (I suppose we shall hear of the "Abershaw" and "Jack Shephard" collection) declared himself "a mere tyro' in art. 8. Poor Crib was sadly puzzled when the marbles were first exhibited at Elgin House; he asked if it was not "a stone shop?"-He was right; it is a shop. 9. [The affair of Copenhagen.] ΤΟ "Blest paper credit! last and best supply, II. The Deal and Dover traffickers in specie. -POPE. |