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96: CHP III, 99, 1-6.
97: Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, II iii 10 (“cruel-hearted cur”). 98: Scott’s note: Letter by a Member of the National Assembly (probably forged). 99: CHP III 81, 3-4. and more effectually,—we devoutly hope the experiment, however hopeful, may not be renewed in our time, and that the ‘fixed passion’ which Childe Harold describes as ‘holding his breath,’ 100 and waiting the ‘atoning hour,’ will choke in his purpose ere that hour arrives. Surely the voice of dear-brought experience should now at length silence, even in France, the clamour of empirical philosophy. Who would listen a moment to the blundering mechanic who should say, ‘I have burned your house down ten times in the attempt, but let me once more disturb your old-fashioned chimnies and vents, in order to make another trial, and I will pledge myself to succeed in heating it upon the newest and most approved principle’? The poem proceeds to describe, in a tone of great beauty and feeling, a night-scene on the Lake of Geneva; and each natural object, from the evening grasshopper to the stars, ‘the poetry of heaven,’ 101 suggests the contemplation of the connection between the Creator and his works. The scene is varied by the ‘fierce and fair delight’ 102 of a thunder-storm, described in verse almost as vivid as its lightnings. We had marked it for transcript, as one of the most beautiful passages of the poem: but quotation must have bounds, and we have been already liberal. But the ‘live thunder leaping among the rattling crags’ 103 —the voice of the mountains, as if shouting to each other—the plashing of the big rain—the gleaming of the wide lake, lighted like a phosphoric sea,—present a picture of sublime terror, yet of enjoyment, often attempted, but never so well, certainly never better, brought out in poetry. The Pilgrim reviews the characters of Gibbon and Voltaire, suggested by their residences on the lake of Geneva, and concludes by reverting to the same melancholy tone of feeling with which the poem commenced. Childe Harold, though not formally dismissed, glides from our observation; and the poet, in his own person, renews the affecting address to his infant daughter:— CXV. Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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