[637] Heloisa to Abelard: "The innocent sheep, tender as they are, would yet follow you through deserts and mountains."
[638] He founded the monastery.—Pope.
Heloisa to Abelard: "You only are the founder of this house. You by inhabiting here have given fame and sanctity to a place known before only for robbers and murderers."
[639] So Dryden says of Absalom,
And Paradise was opened in his face.
The original of the image in the text is in Isaiah li. 3:
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of Jehovah.
Whence Milton derived it, Par. Reg. i. 7:
And Eden raised in the waste wilderness.—Wakefield.
[640] The writer in the Gentleman's Magazine quotes Boileau, Le Moine: