See Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanzas xl., xli.,
Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 359, 360, note 1.]
[ [312] [The sense is, "Ariosto may be matched with, perhaps excelled by, Homer; but where is the Greek poet to set on the same pedestal with Tasso?">[
[ [313] [Compare Churchill's Grave, lines 15-19—
"And is this all? I thought,—and do we rip
The veil of Immortality, and crave
I know not what of honour and of light
Through unborn ages, to endure this blight?
So soon, and so successless?"
Vide ante, [p. 47].]
[ [cl] {267}
The { winged lightning } blood——.—[MS. Alternative reading.]
[ [314] [Compare—
"For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Kubla Khan, lines 52, 53,
Poetical Works. of S. T. Coleridge, 1893, p. 94.]