And thou thy self seem'st otherwise inclin'd 215 When, slipping from thy mother's eye, thou went'st Error by his own arms is best evinc'd. 225 230 235 Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the Ægean shore a city stands 217 wast found] In Milton's own edition and others, it was printed 'was.' Tickell made the emendation wast,' and Fenton adopted it. Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, City or suburban, studious walks and shades; Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; Of bees industrious murmur oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls 240 245 His whispering stream; within the walls then view Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power By voice or hand, and various-measur❜d verse, 255 239 pure] 'Athenis tenue cœlum.' Cic. de fato. v. Pricæum ad Apulium, p. 76. In stately cities, and in fruitful soil, In temperate breathing of the milder heaven. Gorboduc, act ii. sc. 1.. 240 eye] Phil. Jud. Opera, ed. Mangey, ii. p. 467. öлɛg rào èv ὀφθαλμω κόρη, ἢ ἐν ψυχῇ λογισμός, 247 flow'ry] Val. Flacc. v. 344. Met. vii. 701. Sil. Ital. ii. 217. τοῦτ' ἐν ̔Ελλάδι ̓Αθήναι. Todd. 'Florea juga Hymetti.' and Ov. Newton. Dunster. 257 charms] Hor. Od. iii. xxx. 13. 'Princeps Eolium carmen ad Italos and Od. iv. iii. 12. Newton. And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Whose poem Phoebus challeng'd for his own. 260 Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd, In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, 270 To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne: From heav'n descended to the low-rooft house Of Socrates; see there his tenement, 275 261 lofty] 'The tragical poet who wrote his Poesies with so grave and lofty a style.' Holland's Plinie, p. 607. 269 Wielded] Sackville's Gorboduc, act ii. sc. 1. 'Worthy to wield a large and mighty realm.' 270 fulmin'd] Aristoph. Acharn. v. 530, of Pericles, “Ηστράπτεν, ἐβρόντα, ξυνεκύκα τὴν Ελλάδα. Newton. 276 Wisest of men] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxxiv. c. 12. vol. vi. p. 65, ed. Brot. and lib. vii. c. xxxi. 31. vol. ii. p. 124, 'Socrati cunctis ab eodem deo sapientia prælato.' 'Apud Græcos Socrates, oraculo Apollinis Pythii (sapientia) prælatus cunctis;' and Apulii Apologia, p. 425. ed. Delph. Vir (Socrates) omnium sapientissimus.' Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnam❜d Peripateticks, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe; These here revolve, or, as thou lik'st, at home, But virtue join'd with riches and long life; In corporal pleasure he and careless ease; 277 water'd] Manilius, speaking of Homer, ii. 8. -Cujusque ex ore profusos Omnis posteritas latices in carmina duxit. and Ovid. Amor. iii. ix. 25. Dunster. 280 285 290 295 299 pleasure he] He' is here contemptuously emphatical. Dunster. I wonder therefore that the commentators did not acknowledge the The Stoic last in philosophic pride, By him call'd virtue; and his virtuous man, As fearing God nor man, contemning all 300 Wealth, pleasure, pain or torment, death and life, 305 Which when he lists he leaves, or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas! what can they teach and not mislead, And in themselves seek virtue, and to themselves Rather accuse him under usual names, Of mortal things. Who therefore seeks in these Far worse, her false resemblance only meets, 310 310 320 emphasis of 'Him,' at ver. 583, instead of accusing Milton of grammatical inaccuracy. 'So Satan fell; and straight a fiery globe Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, Who on their plumy bows received HIM Soft.' That is, 'our Saviour,' him' xať ¿5óxyv. 303 Equal] Newton reads 'equals.' 313 awry] Drayton's Polyolbion, s. 1. 'But their opinions fail'd, by error led awry. Dunster. |