1811--Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed Head. (Vide
Shakspeare's Macbeth.)--Sarpedon slain in battle, carried home by
Sleep and Death. (Iliad, Book XVII. v. 682.)--Richard the Third
starting from the Apparition of those whom he had assassinated.
(Vide Shakspeare.)--Dion seeing a female Spectre overturn his
altars and sweep his hall. (Vide Plutarch's Life of Dion.)
1812--Lady Macbeth seizes the daggers (a sketch for a large
picture).--The Witch and the Mandrake. (Vide Ben Jonson.)--Eros
reviving Psyche. (Apuleius.)--Ulysses addressing the Shade of
Ajax in Tartarus.
1814--Sigelind, Sifrid's mother, roused by the contest of the
good and evil Genius about her infant son. (Vide Liet der
Nibelunge XI.)--Queen Mab.
"She gallops night by night through lovers' brains."
(Vide Romeo and Juliet.)--Criemhild mourning over Sifrid. (Vide
Liet der Nibelungen XVII.)
1817--Perseus starting from the cave of the Gorgons. (Hesiod's
Shield of Hercules.)--Theodore in the haunted wood, deterred
from rescuing a female chased by an infernal Knight. (Vide
Boccaccio's Decameron.)--Criemhild throwing herself on the body
of Sivril, assassinated by Trony, (Das Nibelungen Lied.)--Sivril,
secretly married to Criemhild, surprised by Trony on his first
interview with her after the victory over the Saxons (ditto).
1818--Dante, in his descent to Hell, discovers amidst the flight
of hapless lovers whirled about in a hurricane, the forms of
Paolo and Franscesca of Rimini. (Vide Inferno, Canto 5.)--A scene
of the Deluge.
1820--An Incantation. (See the Pharmaceutria of
Theocrites.)--Criemhild, the Widow of Siegfried the Swift,
exposes his body, assisted by Sigmond her father, King of
Belgium; in the minster at Worms, and swearing to his
assassination, challenges Hagen, Lord of Trony, and Gunther, King
of Burgundy, his brother, to approach the corpse, and on the
wounds beginning to flow, charges them with the murder. (Lied der
Nibelungen, Adventure 17. 4085, &c.)--Ariadne, Theseus, and the
Minotaur in the Labyrinth. (Vide Virgil, Æn. 6.)
1821--Amphiaraus, a chief of the Argolic league against Thebes,
endowed with prescience, to avoid his fate, withdrew to a secret
place known only to Eriphyle his wife, which she, seduced by the
presents of Polynices, disclosed: thus betrayed, he, on
departing, commanded Alcmæon his son, on being informed of his
death, to destroy his mother. Eriphyle fell by the hand of her
son, who fled, pursued by the Furies.--Jealousy (a
sketch).--Prometheus delivered by Hercules (a drawing).
1823--The Dawn,
"Under the opening eye-lids of the morn:
What time the gray-fly winds his sultry horn."
Vide Milton's Lycidas.
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