Note 6, page 62, stanza cviii. Soft hour! which wakes the wish and melts the heart. "Era gia l' ora che volge 'l disio, "A' naviganti, e 'ntenerisce il cuore ; "Lo di ch'han detto a' dolci amici a dio; "E che lo nuovo peregrin' d' amore "Punge, se ode Squilla di lontano, "Che paia 'l giorno pianger che si muore." DANTE'S Purgatory, Canto VIII. This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy, taken by him without acknowledgment. Note 7, page 63, stanza cix. Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb. See Suetonius for this fact. DON JUA N. CANTO IV. I. NOTHING SO difficult as a beginning For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, Like Lucifer when hurl'd from heaven for sinning; Our sin the same, and hard as his to mend, Being pride, which leads the mind to soar too far, Till our own weakness shows us what we are. |