119. =kindred.= The soil is said to be _kindred_ because it produces all these varieties naturally as if this was their common home. 121. =gelid.= Cool, refreshing. 122. =winnow fragrance.= Carry perfume. 123. =sense.= The senses. 125. =florid.= Bright with flowers. 127. =manners.= Actions, habits of living. 129. =zealous.= Full of religious zeal. 133-8. Referring to the commercial prosperity of Italian cities during the fifteenth century. 136. =long-fallen.= Since the days of ancient Rome. 138. The quarry was filled with marble from which statues of human forms were chiselled. 142. =unmann’d.= Without men. 143-4. Certain diseases were supposed to arise from a superabundance (plethora) of blood. So ills arose out of the prosperity of Italy. =with fruitless skill.= All the skill mentioned in lines 134-8 brought no real results. It could not save Italy. 149-50. The modern processions are bloodless, that is, they do not celebrate real victories. The chariots are made of pasteboard for mere show. 151. =piety and love.= Religious processions, which were often made the means of furthering love intrigues. 157. =succeeding.= Following. 158. =happier meanness.= The people, because of their degraded condition, are happier in the enjoyment of these mean pleasures than they would be in pursuit of nobler aims. 160. Bring out the points of comparison in the simile. 167. =bleak.= Cheerless. =mansion.= Here, country. 168. =churlish.= Generally applied to people in the sense of rude in manner. Here, stubborn, unwilling to yield a harvest. 171. =torpid.= Sleepy, lifeless. 174. =invest.= Take possession. 176. =Redress.= Compensate for. 187. =patient angle.= An example of Transferred Epithet. 198. =nightly.= For the night; not “night after night.” 199. Supply _that_ or _which_. 203. =conforms.= The rudeness and smallness of his home, a mere shed, is in keeping with his mind which is lacking in finer qualities. 214. =redrest.= Satisfied, provided for. 215. =science.= Branch of learning. 216. =excites desire.= Awakens the desire for the pleasure to be derived from the study, and then supplies that pleasure. 217-8. Line 218 tells what is _unknown to them_. When they are satiated with sensual pleasures they do not know how to seek the _higher pleasures of the mind_. 219. =those powers.= Music, poetry, painting, etc. 230-1. Love and friendship belong to the finer feelings, but they find no place in the heart of the mountaineer. =indurated.= Hardened, unfeeling. 234. =Cower.= Generally means to shrink with fear. Here it simply means to sit, to bend low. 242. =whom all the world can please.= They are easily pleased with the attentions and the flattery of others. 244. =tuneless.= Because he lacked the skill to play. 253. =gestic lore.= The knowledge of dancing. 258. =honour.= Note that the word _honour_ is used here in the sense of adulation or praise. 264. =an avarice of praise.= They are greedy for flattery.