Of his own country, etc.
[148] “Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quærebam quid amarem, amans amare.”
[149] Cf. Shelley’s Alastor:
Two eyes,
Two starry eyes, hung in the gloom of thought
And seemed with their serene and azure smiles
To beckon.
[150] “Some of us have in a prior existence been in love with an Antigone, and that makes us find no full content in any mortal tie.” Shelley to John Gisborne, October 22, 1821.
[151] Confessions, Livre XI (1761).
[152] Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe, November, 1817.