Yet seem'd it winter still and, you away,
_As with your shadow I with these did play!_
Scarcely less sure, or if a less valuable, not less indispensable mark
[Greek text, transliterated]
Gonzmou men Poihtou----------
----------ostis rhma gennaion lakoi,
will the imagery supply when, with more than the power of the painter,
the poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling
of simultaneousness!
With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace
Of those fair arms, that bound him to her breast,
And homeward through the dark laund runs apace:
_Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky!
So glides he in the night from Venus' eye._
--_Venus and Adonis_, 1. 811.
4. The last character I shall mention, which would prove indeed but
little, except as taken conjointly with the former; yet without which
the former could scarce exist in a high degree, and (even if this were
possible) would give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric
power;--its depth and energy of thought.
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