y head, that I can easily conceive its influence over all or
any thing that I have written." The conception of an immortal sufferer
at once beneficent and defiant, appealed alike to his passions and his
convictions, and awoke a peculiar enthusiasm. His poems abound with
allusions to the hero and the legend. Compare the first draft of stanza
xvi. of the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_ (_Poetical Works_, 1900, iii.
312, var. ii.); _The Prophecy of Dante_, iv. 10, seq.; the _Irish
Avatar_, stanza xii. line 2, etc.]

[65] {49}[Compare--

[Greek: Toiau~t' e)pey/rou tou~ philanthro/pou tro/pou]

_P. V._, line 28.

Compare, too--

[Greek: Thneto\us d' e)n oi)/.kto| prothe/menos, tou/tou tychei~n]
[Greek: Ou)k e)xio/then au)to\]

Ibid., lines 241, 242.]

[66] [Compare--

[Greek: Dio\s ga\r dysparai/tetoi phre/nes.]

Ibid., line 34.

Compare, too--

[Greek: ...gigno/skonth' o(/ti]
[Greek: To\ te~s a)na/nkes e)st' a)de/riton sthe/nos]

Ibid., line 105.]

[67] {50}[Compare--

"The maker--call him
Which name thou wilt; he makes but to destroy."

_Cain_, act i. sc. 1.

Compare, too--

"And the Omnipotent, who makes and crushes."

_Heaven and Earth_, Part I. sc. 3.]

[68] [Compare--

[Greek: O)/to| thanei~n me/n e)stin ou) peprome/non]

_P. V._, line 754.]

[69][Compare--

[Greek: ...pa/nta prou)xepi/stamai]
[Greek: Skethro~s ta/ me/llonta]

Ibid., lines 101, 102.]

[70] [Compare--

[Greek: Thnetoi~s d' a)e/gon au)to\s eu(ro/men po/nous.]

Ibid., line 269.]

[71] {51}[Compare--

"But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity."

_Manfred_, act i. sc. 2, lines 39, 40, _vide post_, p. 95.]

[m]----_and equal to all woes_.--[Editions 1832, etc.]

[72] [The edition of 1832 and subsequent issues read "and equal." It is
clear that the earlier reading, "an equal," is correct. The spirit
opposed by the