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Footnotes:
[1]See that beautiful book,Amadis of Gaul, vol. i. chap. 12, in the admirable translation by Southey.
[2]There have been writers who concluded that Theocritus did not write some of these poems,becausethe style of them differed from that of his pastorals. “As though” (says Mr. Chapman, his best translator) “the same poet could not possibly excel in different styles.” But this is the way the opinions we have alluded to come up. A writer’s powers are turned against himself, and his very property is to be denied him, because critics of this kind have brains for nothing but one species of handicraft. It is lucky for the human being in the abstract, that he is gifted with tears and smiles; otherwise one or the other of those natural possessions would assuredly have been called in question. In fact, the marvel is, not that genius should deal in both, but that it should ever show itself incapable of either. Exclusive gravity and exclusive levity are alike a solecism, as far as regards the common source of emotion, which is sensitiveness to impressions.
[3]’Αδηφάγον—Literally, insatiably eating, voracious; one who has neverhad enough. Observe how the same instinctive phraseology is used by strong sensations all over the world. The “Fancy” pugilistic, and fancy poetical, like differently bred relations, thus find themselves, to their astonishment, of the same family; so the like metaphors of “flashing one’s ivories” (for suddenly showing the teeth), “tapping the claret,” and other jovial escapes from vulgarity into elegance.
[4]An epithet applied by the Sicilians to Proserpine.
[5]The Greek Pastoral Poets, Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, done into English by M. J. Chapman, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, pp. 7, 331.—We like the good faith of Mr. Chapman’s “done into English.”
[6]Perhaps from a Greek root, expressing carelessness or quiet.
[7]Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, &c.Translated by Holcroft, vol. iv. p. 298.
[8]Quoted in Evans’sClassic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, vol. ii. p. 358.
[9]Swinburne’sTravels in the Two Sicilies, vol. iv. p. 148.
[10]Voyage Critique à l’Ætna, tom. i. p. 529.
[11]Vide the Letters appended to aView of the Present State of Italy, translated from the Italian, by Thomas Wright Vaughan, Esq., p. 70.
[12]“Olives and bread form the principal part of the food of the lower classes in Sicily, and oil is a necessary of life.”
[13]“About equivalent to ‘zounds’ and ‘gadzooks.’”
[14]View of Italy, ut supra, p. 79.
[15]It is calculated that 40,000 souls perished in this convulsion. In the greatest of all the Sicilian earthquakes, that of 1693, the earth shook but four minutes, and overthrew almost all the towns on the eastern side of the island.
[16]“Prettily pilfered,” says Lamb, “from the sweet passage in theMidsummer Night’s Dream, where Helena recounts to Hermia their school-days’ friendship:—
‘We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,Created with our needles both one flower,Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion.’”
[17]Why does not Mr. Edward Holmes do it? or Mr. Chorley? We have heard that M. Berlioz has some such work in hand, with a translation of which his friends are to favour the public. Such a production, if copious, might form an epoch in the critical history of the art. We hope a time will come when music will be as freely quoted in books as poetry is.
[18]See a pleasant allusion to this charge by Theocritus himself, at page 84 of the present book, where Praxinoe disburses a quantity ofa’s.
[19]The constellation so called.
[20]This sample, strange as it may appear, of the familiarity which breeds contempt, even towards objects of worship, and which Theocritus must have smiled while he was describing, has not been confined to Paganism.
[21]Alluding to the letters AI, which simply signifies “Alas,” and which are to be found (so to speak) in the dark lines or specks observable in the petals of the Turk’s-cap Lily; which Professor Martyn has shown to be the true hyacinth of the ancients.
[22]Similar perhaps to the Top, or Round-top, of a man-of-war.—Note by the Translator.
[23]“This extreme restraint originates in a mistrust of women, and the ill opinion which prevails of the sex. A prudent and chaste education honours and ennobles the fair, who are most injuriously debased by oriental confinement. The German and English women are the most virtuous of their sex. Nowhere are unmarried women so innocent, or the married so happy. Nowhere are wives so honoured, and so full of worth, as among the Germans and the English. Neither have our women that cold reserve which is frequently the lot of an Englishwoman. What Galiana says of the hypocrisy of love is in part explained by the text, and in part must be understood only of this passion in the South.”
[24]Probably the one mentioned in the list of Meli’s subscribers.
[25]A small coin.
[26]About eleven shillings.