[168] This pillar was destined by the first Napoleon for the decoration of the triumphal arch at Milan, the intended monument of his Italian victories. His fall frustrated the design. Many years later, Wordsworth, while descending into Italy by the Simplon Pass, came upon the unfinished mass as it lay half raised from the Alpine quarry, and addressed to it his sublime sonnet beginning:
“Ambition, following down the far-famed slope,”
and proceeding:
“Rest where thy course was stayed by power Divine.”
[169] Ann. l. iv. ch. xlvi.
[170] This article and the one in our May number are from the pens of two distinct writers.
[171] The Expressions, etc., p. 12.
[172] Expressions, etc., p. 30.
[173] Gen. i. 24.
[174] Gen. i. 26.