The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 570 pages of information about The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 570 pages of information about The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05.

[1] The interpolations are distinguished by inverted commas.

PASSAGES INTERPOLATED IN MASENIUS.

The word “pandemonium,” in the marginal notes of
Book i.  Essay, page 10.

Citation 6.  Essay, page 38.

  Annuit ipsa Dolo, malumque (heu! longa dolendi
  Materies! et triste nefas!) vesana momordit,
  Tanti ignara mali.  Mora nulla:  solutus avernus
  Exspuit infandas acies; fractumque remugit,
  Divulsa compage, solum:  Nabathaea receptum
  Regna dedere sonum, Pharioque in littore Nercus
  Territus erubuit:  simul aggemuere dolentes
  Hesperiae valles, Libyaeque calentis arenae
  Exarsere procul.  Stupefacta Lycaonis ursa
  Constitit, et pavido riguit glacialis in axe: 
  Omnis cardinibus submotus inhorruit orbis;
  “Angeli hoc efficiunt, coelestia jussa secuti.”

Citation 7.  Essay, page 41.

  Ilia quidem fugiens, sparsis per terga capillis,
  Ora rigat lacrimis, et coelum questibus implet: 
  Talia voce rogans.  Magni Deus arbiter orbis! 
  Qui rerum momenta tenes, solusque futuri
  Praescius, elapsique memor:  quem terra potentem
  Imperio, coelique tremunt; quem dite superbus
  Horrescit Phlegethon, pavidoque furore veretur: 
  En!  Styge crudeli premimur.  Laxantur hiatus
  Tartarei, dirusque solo dominatur Avernus,
  “Infernique canes populantur cuncta creata,”
  Et manes violant superos:  discrimina rerum
  Sustulit Antitheus, divumque oppressit honorem. 
  Respice Sarcotheam:  nimis, heu! decepta momordit
  Infaustas epulas, nosque omnes prodidit hosti.

Citation 8.  Essay, page 42; the whole passage.

  “Quadrupedi pugnat quadrupes, volucrique volucris;
  Et piscis cum pisce ferox hostilibus armis
  Praelia saeva gerit:  jam pristina pabula spernunt,
  Jam tondere piget viridantes gramine campos: 
  Alterum et alterius vivunt animalia letho: 
  Prisca nec in gentem humanam reverentia durat;
  Sed fugiunt, vel, si steterant, fera bella minantur
  Fronte truci, torvosque oculos jaculantur in illam.”

Citation 9.  Essay, page 43.

  “Vatibus antiquis numerantur lumine cassis,”
  Tiresias, “Phineus,” Thamyrisque, et magnus Homerus.

The above passage stands thus in Masenius, in one line: 

  Tiresias caecus, Thamyrisque, et Daphnis, Homerus.

N.B.  The verse now cited is in Masenius’s poems, but not in the
Sarcotis.

Citation 10.  Essay, page 46.

  In medio, turmas inter provectus ovantes
  Cernitur Antitheus; reliquis hic altior unus
  Eminet, et circum vulgus despectat inane: 
  Frons nebulis obscura latet, torvumque furorem
  Dissimulat, fidae tectus velamine noctis: 
  “Persimilis turri praecelsae, aut montibus altis
  Antique cedro, nudatae frondis honore.”

PASSAGES INTERPOLATED IN GROTIUS.

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