16.

Or like the thief of fire from heaven, (6)

Wilt thou withstand the shock?

And share with him, the unforgiven,
His vulture and his rock!

Foredoom'd by God-by man accurst,
And that last act, though not thy worst,
The very Fiend's arch mock; (7)

He in his fall preserved his pride,

And, if a mortal, had as proudly died!

NOTES

TO THE

ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

Note 1, page 165, line 2.

The rapture of the strife.

Certaminis gaudia, the expression of Attila in his harangue to his army, previous to the battle of Chalons, given in Cassiodorus.

Milo.

Sylla.

Note 2, page 166, line 1.
He who of old would rend the oak.

Note 3, page 166, line 10.

The Roman, when his burning heart.

Note 4, page 167, line 1.

The Spaniard, when the lust of sway.

Charles V.

Note 5, page 170, line 10.

Thou Timour! in his captive's cage.

The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane.

Note 6, page 171, line 1.

Or like the thief of fire from heaven.

Prometheus.

Note 7, page 171, line 7.

The very Fiend's arch mock.

"The fiend's arch mock

"To lip a wanton, and suppose her chaste."

Shakspeare.

MONODY

ON THE

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN.

SPOKEN AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.