Manfred, a dramatic poem/Notes

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NOTES.

Note 1, page 31, line 1.

———— the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven.

This iris is formed by the rays of the sun over the lower part of the Alpine torrents: it is exactly like a rainbow, come down to pay a visit, and so close that you may walk into it:—this effect lasts till noon.

Note 2, page 35, line 9.

He who from out their fountain dwellings raised Eros and Anteros, at Gadara.

The philosopher Iamblicus. The story of the raising of Eros and Anteros may be found in his life, by Eunapius. It is well told.

Note 3, page 39, line 21.

————she replied In words of dubious import, but fulfilled.

The story of Pausanias, king of Sparta, (who commanded the Greeks at the battle of Platea, and afterwards perished ​for an attempt to betray the Lacedemonians) and Cleonice, is told in Plutarch's life of Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the Sophist, in his description of Greece.

Note 4, page 63, line 6.

————the giant sons Of the embrace of angels.

"That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," &c.

"There were giants on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the Sons of God came in unto the daughters of men: and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown."

Genesis, ch. vi. verses 2 and 4.

THE END.

T. DAVISON, Lombard-street,
Whitefriars, London.

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