We get that same strange glorious blending of compassion and scorn--pride or scorn, one does not know what to call it; it is neither of those things in reality, but rather the native accent of divinity in the voice of the soul--we hear that same majestic blending of compassion and haughtiness pre-eminently in a line from the _Purgatorio_ which Arnold justly gives as one of the most perfect examples of the Grand Manner of poetry, the highest style than can be impressed on written or chanted words; the line: _Che drizza voi che il mondo fece torti_, "Which straightens you whom the world made crooked." We see here, I think, as in the passage from Swinburne, the same impatience of words and details; the same godlike aloofness; the same pity too compressed, too burning and intense, to reveal itself fully or tenderly: the feeling has passed beyond the limits of the power of tenderness, we might say, to be tender: it is such a super-passional passion of tenderness, suppressed, governed, boiling, that it must be stern, swift, momentary--or nothing. Is it not the very naked voice of the august divinity hidden within us?--the greatest fashion that can be burned and infused into the brute stuff of language; because ringing with the dominance of that hidden Master? It bears the mark of compassion, because compassion is the inevitable attitude of the soul outward from itself; and it bears the stamp of sublime titanism--that thing that would be scorn, were it bitter and hostile, and that would be mere majesty, might it remain passive and in repose--because the soul is a god, and knows itself to be a god, and breathes out the atmosphere of godhood. Here it is in Milton, again: His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined: and of course, it is Milton and Dante who are the supreme masters in modern literature of the Grand Manner; as poets, the greatest of the poets. [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. PHEIDIAS, EURIPIDES, AND ARISTON GROUP IN "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"] [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. KRITON, THUKYDIDES, PHEIDIAS, ARISTON, AND HIPPONIKOS (READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"] [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. HIPPARETE, PERIKTIONE, POTONE, ASPASIA, AGATHOKLEIA, DIOTIMA, DEINOMACHE, AND MYRTO (READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"] [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. DIOTIMA, PERIKLES, AND ASPASIA, SEATED "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"]