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NOTES TO DIDO AND ^ENEAS.
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685. With regard to the speech of Ilioneus, see note on 1. 451.
Here it is considerably abbreviated.
738. The short speech of Achates to Aineas is here omitted.
749. That far sought fleece, the golden fleece brought by Jason
and his companions from the grove of Ares in Colchis, where it was
guarded night and day by a dragon.
751. The stanza beginning with 1. 751 is Mure’s.
782. To heavenly accords of harmoniows spheares. “The music of
the spheres. Pythagoras, having ascertained that the pitch of notes
depends on the rapidity of vibrations, and also that the planets move
at different rates of motion, concluded that the sounds made by their
motion must vary according to their different rates of motion. As all
things in nature are harmoniously made, these different sounds must
harmonise, and the combination he called the ‘ harmony of the
spheres.’ Kepler has a treatise on the subject.” — Brewer, ‘Diet,
of Phrase and Fable.’
838. The costly Jewells Helen did enjoy, &c. “ A mantle stiff" with
gold embroidery, and a veil with woven border of yellow acanthus-
flower, that once decked Helen of Argos, the marvel of her mother
Leda’s giving; the sceptre, too, that Ilione, Priam’s eldest daughter,
once had worn, a beaded necklace, and a double circlet of jewelled
gold.”—Mackail.
858. Peice and price, gradually. See also line 985 and Bk. iii. 486.
Montgomery uses it in the same sense—
“ As wax befoir the fyre, I felt
My hart within tny bosome melt,
And peece and peece decay.”
—‘ Cherrie and Slae,’ 1. 270.
925-934. These lines should, following Virgil, come in after line 990.
969. Halse, neck. Ger. Hals. In the earlier writers this word
was also used as a verb, meaning to embrace or hang on the neck.
So Lord Surrey—
“ Whoso gladly halseth the golden mean,
Void of dangers advisedly hath his home.”
—‘ Praise of Mean and Constant Estate.’
991-1008. The last three stanzas of Book i. are Mure’s own.
275
685. With regard to the speech of Ilioneus, see note on 1. 451.
Here it is considerably abbreviated.
738. The short speech of Achates to Aineas is here omitted.
749. That far sought fleece, the golden fleece brought by Jason
and his companions from the grove of Ares in Colchis, where it was
guarded night and day by a dragon.
751. The stanza beginning with 1. 751 is Mure’s.
782. To heavenly accords of harmoniows spheares. “The music of
the spheres. Pythagoras, having ascertained that the pitch of notes
depends on the rapidity of vibrations, and also that the planets move
at different rates of motion, concluded that the sounds made by their
motion must vary according to their different rates of motion. As all
things in nature are harmoniously made, these different sounds must
harmonise, and the combination he called the ‘ harmony of the
spheres.’ Kepler has a treatise on the subject.” — Brewer, ‘Diet,
of Phrase and Fable.’
838. The costly Jewells Helen did enjoy, &c. “ A mantle stiff" with
gold embroidery, and a veil with woven border of yellow acanthus-
flower, that once decked Helen of Argos, the marvel of her mother
Leda’s giving; the sceptre, too, that Ilione, Priam’s eldest daughter,
once had worn, a beaded necklace, and a double circlet of jewelled
gold.”—Mackail.
858. Peice and price, gradually. See also line 985 and Bk. iii. 486.
Montgomery uses it in the same sense—
“ As wax befoir the fyre, I felt
My hart within tny bosome melt,
And peece and peece decay.”
—‘ Cherrie and Slae,’ 1. 270.
925-934. These lines should, following Virgil, come in after line 990.
969. Halse, neck. Ger. Hals. In the earlier writers this word
was also used as a verb, meaning to embrace or hang on the neck.
So Lord Surrey—
“ Whoso gladly halseth the golden mean,
Void of dangers advisedly hath his home.”
—‘ Praise of Mean and Constant Estate.’
991-1008. The last three stanzas of Book i. are Mure’s own.
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| Description | Edited with introduction, notes and glossary by William Tough. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Contents: V. 1. Introduction. Early miscellaneous poems. Sonnets. Dido and Æneas. A spirtuall hymne. Doomesday. Fancies farewell. The trve crucifixe for true Catholickes. Sonnets. -- v. 2. A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor. Caledons complaint. The cry of blood. Some psalmes translated. The historie and descent of the house of Rowallane, [in prose] Notes. Glossary. |
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