III. “A glory streamed around her, giant-strong.” This stanza has been inspired by Murillo’s _Immaculate Conceptions_, on whose wonderful beauties I have gazed for days at Seville and Madrid. IV. “Seemed as a rosebud gathering ere it blew All forms of Beauty.” Als eine blume zeigt sie sich der welt; Zum muster wuchs das schöne bild empor. Göthe, “_Miedings Tod._” “She blossoms to the world like a flower; her beautiful form grows up to be a pattern.” VI. “Oh Love, oh wedded Love, of life the balm!” “You have reason to commend that excellent institution * * the faithful nuptial union of man and wife that was first instituted.” (Bacon, _New Atlantis_.) The same sentiments are still more nobly expressed in Milton’s _Tetrachordon_ and _Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce_, where the poet, unshackled by his prose fetters, is still a poet, glowing with fancy and with rare sublimity, and has given expression to nobler sentiments on chaste love than any other writer, ancient or modern. VII. “The rapturous joy more rapture gave alone.” Tu mihi sola places; nec jam, te præter, in urbe Formosa est oculis ulla puella meis. Atque utinam posses uni mihi bella videri. Tibul. 1. iv. 13. “A stolen pressure of the hand, a tone Unheard save by one ear.” Fallendique vias mille ministrat Amor! Tibul. 1. iv. 6. “A language dead to all save lovers.” O quanta dulce imagen, Quantas tiernas palabras Alli diré, que el labio Quiere decir, y calla. Cienfuegos. “And bend, oh bend those glorious eyes Upon thy slave once more, once more.” Medid el ayre de unos bellos ojos, Y me direys del cielo al suelo el trecho. Lope de Vega, _Angelica_, iii. X. “Like Clytemnestra’s son by Furies driven.” ----“Ereptæ magno inflammatus amore Conjugis, et scelerum furiis agitatus Orestes.” Virg. _Æn._ iii. 330. Ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ· Ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι’ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς Βεβῶτ’ ἀνατεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα, Ὑπέρ τε πόντον, καὶ περιῤῥύτας πόλεις. Æschyl. _Eumen._ 74. “Fly! nor inert become. For they (the Furies) shall pursue thee through the long continent, passing untired through the wanderer-trodden earth, through the sea, and the sea-girt cities!” XIII. --“Through her, too, passed the steel!” Cujus animam gementem * * Pertransivit gladius! ANTIPHONAR. ROM. “_Stabat Mater._” XVI. “As each the other’s head had joyous rent, And gnawed like Ugolino.” Quandò ebbe detto ciò, con gli occhi torti Riprese il teschio misero co’ denti, Che furo all’ osso, come d’un can forti. Dante, _Inferno_, c. xxx.