Calendar: 1865-1866 Page 528

530 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE substantial enough to make cloud but it is like Cassiopeia's chair or Pelops' shoulder or the circles of heaven φαινόμίνα for which you cannot have word that can signify verier nothing And yet the expression is one degree more made diminutive vapour and fantastical or mere appearance and this but for little while neither the very dream the phantasm disappears in small time like the shadow that departeth or like tale that is told or as dream when one awaketh man is so vain so unfixed so perishing creature that he cannot long last in the scene of fancy man goes off and is forgotten like the dream of distracted person The sum of all is this that thou art man than whom there is not in the world any greater instance of heights and declensions of lights and shadows of misery and folly of laughter and tears of groans and death VIII ranilate into vtek iambic Cas Where is my brother Hector Andr Here sister arm'd and bloody in intent Consort with me in loud and dear petition Pursue we him on knees for have dreamt Of bloody turbulence and this whole night Hath nothing been but shapesand forms of slaughter Cas 'tis true Hect Ho bid my trumpet sound Cas No notes of sally for the heav'ns sweet brother Hect Be gone say the gods have heard me swear Cas The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows They are polluted offerings more abhorr'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice Andr be persuaded do not count it holy To hurt by being just it were as lawful For us to count we give what's gain'd by thefts And rob in the behalf of charity Write in Greek an account of an earthquake