But one whose soul hath been in Hell.
Strophe x.
The word Hell is here used, as in the Creed, to signify Hades, or the place of departed spirits. I have purposely shunned any imagining of its secret things, whether in the Paradise of the just, or the Phylace of the wicked; and have simply employed some of the revelations of the Apocalypse, in a reverent hint at the employment of the Angels in Heaven. The episode of Ulla and Arah is introduced to illustrate the received doctrine of the recognition of friends in the final abodes of the righteous.
A pig from Epicurus’ stye.
Strophe xix.
The reader will recognize this truly Horatian, though some what inelegant metaphor, as borrowed from “Porcus de grege Epicuri.”
And I could see when there above.