When Athens' armies fell at Syracuse, (1) That is, the Lion of St. Mark, the standard of the republic, which is the origin of the word Pantaloon-Piantaleone, Pantaleon, Pantaloon. (2) The story is told in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. (3) Venice Preserved: Mysteries of Udolpho: The GhostSeer, or Armenian; The Merchant of Venice; "Othello. (4) Tannen is the plural of tanne, a species of fir peculiar to the Alps, which only thrives in very rocky parts, where scarcely soil sufficient for its nourishment can be found. On these spots it grows to a greater height than any other mountain tree. Her corn, and wine, and oil, and Plenty leaps To laughing life, with her redundant horn. Along the banks where smiling Arno sweeps, Was modern Luxury of Commerce born, And buried Learning rose, redeem'd to a new morn. XLIX. 1 There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills Of heaven is half undrawn; within the pale And to the fond idolaters of old Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould : L. We Where Pedantry gulls Folly-we have eyes : Blood, pulse, and breast confirm the Dardan Shepherd's prize. LI. Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise P Shower'd on his eyelids, brow, and mouth, as from an urn. LII. Glowing, and circumfused in speechless love, That feeling to express, or to improve, Into thy statue's form, and look like gods below. LIII. I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands, I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream Wherein that image shall for ever dwell; The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam. |