J. O.
Footnote 3:[(return)]
The Art of Politicks, in imitation of Horace, 1729, with a hybrid portrait of Heidegger, the arbit. elegant. of his day.
"Virgin Wife and widowed Maid."—Whence come the words "Virgin wife and widow'd maid," quoted, apparently, by Liddell and Scott in their Greek Lexicon, s.v. ἀπάρθενος, as a rendering or illustration of Hec. 610.?
"Νύμφην τ' ἄνυμφον, πάρθενον τ' ἀπάρθενον."
Anon.
"Cutting off the little heads of light."—Perhaps you or one of your correspondents would help me to the whereabouts of some thoughtful lines which I recently came across, in a volume which I accidentally took up, but the name of which has completely skipped my memory.
The lines referred to typified Tyranny under the form of the man who puts out the gas-lights at dawn: "Cutting off the little heads of light which lit the world." I am not sure of the rhythm, and so have put the lines like prose; but they wind up with a fine analogy of the sun in all its glory bursting on the earth, and putting the proceedings of the light extinguisher utterly to nought.
A. B. R.