The veteran shows, and gracing a grey beard Like a coy maiden, Ease, when courted most, 410 Farthest retires-an idol, at whose shrine) Who oftenest sacrifice | are favoured least.) The love of Nature, and the scenes) she draws,] Is Nature's dictate.) Strange !] there should be found,] Who, self-imprisoned in their proud saloons, 415 Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom ; | The inferior wonders of an artist's hand. ¡ 425 And throws Italian light on English walls :] Than please the eye-sweet Nature every sense.] The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales, Beneath the open sky she spreads the feast ;| 410. The order is this-Ease, an idol, at whose shrine [those] who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least, like a coy maiden, retires farthest when [she is] courted most. 412. And the scenes-The omission of of before scenes, to mark the Genit., is not without hardness. 413. There should be found, who-The omission of men, or some other antecedent to who, is a Latinism. 422. None more admires-Take this as a parenthetical sentence. 426. Take no more than to please the eye, as Obj. to do. 427. Sweet Nature every sense-A bold ellipse, in which only a part of the preceding enunciation ("can do no more than please") is to be supplied, and that not in the Infinitive, in which it stands before, but in the Present Tense, so as to complete the sentence, "Sweet Nature pleases every sense." 'Tis free to all-'tis every day renewed ;| 435 Who scorns it, starves deservedly at home.] He does not scorn it, | who, imprisoned long In some unwholesome dungeon, and a prey To sallow sickness,) which the vapours dank And clammy of his dark abode have bred, | 440 Escapes at last to liberty and light :) His cheek recovers soon its healthful hue,| He walks, he leaps, he runs-is winged with joy,] Nor yet the mariner, his blood inflamed 455 460 These Flora banishes,) and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient] than her own. And tasteless, of the same repeated joys, | That palls and satiates,] and makes languid life 465 A pedlar's pack,] that bows the bearer down. | Health suffers, and the spirits ebb; the heart 447. Nor yet [does] the mariner [scorn it]. His blood inflamed, &c.-Nom. abs., adjuncts to scorn. 452. Such as [those are] which. 453. To find-Adjunct of purpose after die. 462. Revolution of joys-Not a happy or appropriate expression. 465. Two sets of alliteration. Recoils from its own choice|—at the full feast Though halt, and weary of the path they tread.] But cannot play them,] borrows a friend's hand And silent cypher,] while her proxy plays. | Till the stout bearers lift the corpse again. | 485 They love it, and yet loath it ;] fear to die,] 490 And their inveterate habits, all forbid.) Whom call we gay? | That honour has been long 495 Beneath the rosy cloud, | while yet the beams 469. Why Suggests the repetition of all the separate sentences from 466, as Substantive Sentences. 472. The paralytic-See line 7, note. 474. To deal-Germ. theilen = to divide. 475. Suits and sequences-Technical terms of the card-player. 482. Memento mori-"Remember death," was the usual salutation of the Cistercian friars. Even these themselves-See line 386, note. 484. Supply clings before to a twig. 487. No-Is wholly extra-grammatical. 494. Saturate = saturated, as animate= inanimate. Temperate has no passive form. The peasant too, a witness of his song, But save me from the gaiety of those] 500 Whose headaches nail them to a noonday bed: | And save me too from theirs] whose haggard eyes Flash desperation, and betray their pangs For property stripped off by cruel chance ;] The earth was made so various, that the mind And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. | 510 Till half their beauties fade; the weary sight, Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale,) Where frequent hedges intercept the eye, | 515 Delight us, happy to renounce awhile, Not senseless of its charms,) what still we love, | 502. Desperation-Originally the same as despair; has come to assume generally the meaning of "recklessness resulting from despair." The two adjectives, desperate and despairing, have a similar relation to one another, though they were originally identical. This illustrates the rule, that a language never retains perfect synonyms in constant use. It either drops one, or modifies its meaning. 503. For property, &c.-Adjunct to pangs. The allusion is to gambling. 516. Its charms-Obj. to renounce, and also to the Prep. of. What still we loveSubs. Sent. Obj. to the verb renounce. 522. There used attributively, to qualify the word mariner; or the Particip. being might be supplied, and then the adverb there would have its proper adverbial force. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough There often wanders one, whom better days went to sea,] and died.] And dream of transports] she was not to know.] 545 She heard the doleful tidings of his death,| And never smiled again.] And now she roams And hoards them in her sleeve ;] but needful food, 555 Though pressed with hunger oft, or comelier clothes, Though pinched with cold, asks never.]—Kate is crazed. | 535. Clad-Attrib. to whom. 540. She would sit-Would is not here an Aux. Verb. From its original signification, which expresses exercise of free will, it has acquired that of "being bent on something," "being wont to do." 544. Was to know. The verb to be, joined with an Inf. Mood, is used to imply destiny, duty, and necessity. You are to come. She was not [destined] to know. Was to know may be analysed as the Predicate of the Sentence. |