[112]. Had Petrarch gained his Laura, etc.
‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?’
Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 8.
[112]. St. Preux. In Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (1760).
[113]. Till the sense aches at it. Othello, IV. 2.
Amorous toys of light-winged Cupid.
‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’
Othello, I. 3.
Canova. Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venetian sculptor.