[hk] {228} Protract to age his painful doting day.—[MS. erased.]
[hl] {230} Her nation—flag—how tells the telescope.—[MS.]
[199] [Compare The Isle of Palms, by John Wilson, Canto I. (1812, p. 8)—
"She sailed amid the loveliness
Like a thing with heart and mind.">[
[hm] {231} Till creaks her keel upon the shallow sand.—[MS.]
[hn] {234} The haughtier thought his bosom ill conceals.—[MS.]
He had the skill when prying souls would seek,
To watch his words and trace his pensive cheek.—[MS.]
His was the skill when prying, etc.—[Revise.]
[200] {235} That Conrad is a character not altogether out of nature, I shall attempt to prove by some historical coincidences which I have met with since writing The Corsair.
"Eccelin, prisonnier," dit Rolandini, "s'enfermoit dans un silence menaçant; il fixoit sur la terre son visage féroce, et ne donnoit point d'essor à sa profonde indignation. De toutes partes cependant les soldats et les peuples accouroient; ils vouloient voir cet homme, jadis si puissant ... et la joie universelle éclatoit de toutes partes.... Eccelino étoit d'une petite taille; mais tout l'aspect de sa personne, tous ses mouvemens, indiquoient un soldat. Son langage étoit amer, son déportement superbe, et par son seul regard, il faisoit trembler les plus hardis."—Simonde de Sismondi, Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Age, 1809, iii. 219.