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NOTES TO CANTO IV.

Note 1, page 39, line 7.

A dome, its image, etc.

The cupola of Saint Peter's.

Note 2, page 39, line 17.

His chisel bid the Hebrew, etc.

The statue of Moses on the monument of Julius II.

SONNETTO

DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA ZAPPI.

Chi è costui, che in dura pietra scolto,

Siede gigante; e le più illustre, e conte
Prove dell' arte avvanza, e ha vive, e pronte
Le labbia sì, che le parole ascolto?

Quest' è Mosè; ben me'l diceva il folto

Onor del mento, e'l doppio raggio in fronte,
Quest' è Mose, quando scendea del monte,
E gran parte del Nume avea nel volto.

Tal era allor, che le sonanti, e vaste

Acque ei sospese a sè d' intorno, e tale
Quando il mar chiuse, e ne fè tomba altrui.
E voi sue turbe un rio vitello alzate?
Alzata aveste imago a questa eguale!
Ch' era men fallo l' adorar costui.

Note 3, page 39, line 20.

Over the damn'd before the judgment throne, etc.

The Last Judgment in the Sistine chapel.

Note 4, page 39, line 23.

The stream of his great thoughts shall spring from me, etc.

I have read somewhere (if I do not err, for I cannot recollect where) that Dante was so great a favourite of Michel Angiolo's, that he had designed the whole of the Divina Commedia; but that the volume containing these studies was lost by sea.

Note 5, page 40, line 11.

Her charms to pontiffs proud, who but employ, etc.

See the treatment of Michel Angiolo by Julius II, and his neglect by Leo X.

Note 6, page 42, line 1.

"What have I done to thee, my people?»

« E scrisse più volte non solamente a particulari cittadin del reggimento, ma ancora al popolo, e intra l' altre un epistola assai lunga che

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comincia: Popule mi, quid feci tibi?”»

Vita di Dante scritta da Lionardo Aretino.

THE

AGE OF BRONZE;

OR,

CARMEN SECULARE ET ANNUS HAUD MIRABILIS.

Impar Congressus Achilli.»

THE

AGE OF BRONZE.

I.

THE "good old times»-all times when old are goodthe present might be if they would;

Are gone;

Great things have been, and are, and greater still
Want little of mere mortals but their will;

A wider space, a greener field is given

To those who play their « tricks before high heaven. » I know not if the angels weep, but men

Have wept enough-for what?—to weep again.

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All is exploded-be it good or bad.

Reader! remember when thou wert a lad,
Then Pitt was all; or, if not all, so much,
His very rival almost deem'd him such.
We, we have seen the intellectual race
Of giants stand, like Titans, face to face-

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