{199}[dw] _The blood gushed from her lips, and ears, and eyes:_ _Those eyes, so beautiful--beheld no more_.--[MS.] [245] This is no very uncommon effect of the violence of conflicting and different passions. The Doge Francis Foscari, on his deposition in 1457, hearing the bells of St. Mark announce the election of his successor, "mourut subitement d'une hémorragie causée par une veine qui s'éclata dans sa poitrine" [see Sismondi, 1815, x. 46, and Daru, 1821, ii. 536; see, too, _The Two Foscari_, act v. sc. i, line 306, and Introduction to the _Two Foscari_, _Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 118, 193], at the age of eighty years, when "_Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?_" (_Macbeth_, act v. sc. 1, lines 34-36.) Before I was sixteen years of age I was witness to a melancholy instance of the same effect of mixed passions upon a young person, who, however, did not die in consequence, at that time, but fell a victim some years afterwards to a seizure of the same kind, arising from causes intimately connected with agitation of mind. {200}[246] [The view of the Venus of Medici instantly suggests the lines in the "Seasons" [the description of "Musidora bathing" in _Summer_]-- " ... With wild surprise, As if to marble struck, devoid of sense, A stupid moment motionless she stood: So stands the statue that enchants the world." Hobhouse. A still closer parallel to this stanza, and to _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanzas xlix., cxl., cxli., clx., clxi., is to be found in Thomson's _Liberty_, pt. iv. lines 131-206, where the "Farnese Hercules," the "Dying Gladiator," the "Venus of Medici," and the "Laocoon" group, are commemorated as typical works of art.] [dx] _Distinct from life, as being still the same_.--[MS.] {202}[dy] _--working slow._--[MS.] [dz] _Have dawned a child of beauty, though of sin._--[MS.] [247] [" ... Duncan is in his grave: After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." _Macbeth_, act iii. sc. 2., lines 22, 23.] {203}[ea] _No stone is there to read, nor tongue to say_, _No dirge--save when arise the stormy seas_.--[MS.] [248] ["But now I am cabined, cribbed," etc. _Macbeth_, act iii. sc. 4, line 24.] {204}[249] [Jacob Bryant (1715-1804) published his _Dissertation concerning the War of Troy, etc._, in 1796. See _The Bride of Abydos_, Canto II. lines 510, sq., _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 179, note 1. See, too, _Extracts from a Diary_, January 11, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 165, 166, "I have stood upon that plain [of Troy] _daily_, for more than a month, in 1810; and if anything diminished my pleasure, it was that the blackguard Bryant had impugned its veracity." Hobhouse, in his _Travels in Albania_, 1858, ii. 93, sq., discusses at length the identity of the barrows of the Troad with the _tumuli_ of Achilles, Ajax, and Protesilaus, and refutes Bryant's arguments against the identity of Cape Janissary and the Sigean promontory.