[131] The Turks abhor the Arabs (who return the compliment a hundredfold) even more than they hate the Christians. [fi] _Or Christian flying from the fight_.--[MS.] [fj] _Zuleika! ever welcome here_.--[MS.] [fk] _Who never was more blest than now_.--[MS.] [132] {164} [Lines 170-181 were added in the course of printing. They were received by the publisher on November 22, 1813.] [fl] _Who hath not felt his very power of sight_ _Faint with the languid dimness of delight?_--[MS.] [fm] _The light of life--the purity of grace_ _The mind of Music breathing in her face_ or, _Mind on her lip and music in her face._ _A heart where softness harmonized the whole_ _And oh! her eye was in itself a Soul!_--[MS.] [133] This expression has met with objections. I will not refer to "Him who hath not Music in his soul," but merely request the reader to recollect, for ten seconds, the features of the woman whom he believes to be the most beautiful; and, if he then does not comprehend fully what is feebly expressed in the above line, I shall be sorry for us both. For an eloquent passage in the latest work of the first female writer of this, perhaps of any, age, on the analogy (and the immediate comparison excited by that analogy) between "painting and music," see vol. iii. cap. 10, De l'Allemagne. And is not this connection still stronger with the original than the copy? with the colouring of Nature than of Art? After all, this is rather to be felt than described; still I think there are some who will understand it, at least they would have done had they beheld the countenance whose speaking harmony suggested the idea; for this passage is not drawn from imagination but memory,{A} that mirror which Affliction dashes to the earth, and looking down upon the fragments, only beholds the reflection multiplied! [For the simile of the broken mirror, compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xxxiii. line 1 (_Poetical Works_, ii. 236, note 2); and for "the expression," "music breathing from her face," compare Sir Thomas Browne's _Religio Medici_, Part II. sect, ix., _Works_, 1835, ii. 106, "And sure there is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of any instrument;" and Lovelace's "Song," _Orpheus to Beasts_-- "Oh could you view the melody Of ev'ry grace, And music of her face!" The effect of the appeal to Madame de Staël is thus recorded in Byron's _Journal_ of December 7, 1813 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 369): "This morning, a very pretty billet from the Staël," (for passage in _De L'Allemagne_, Part III. chap, x., and the "billet," see _Letters,_ ii. 354, note 1) ... "She has been pleased to be pleased with my slight eulogy in the note annexed to _The Bride_."]