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to put them side by side with this of Scott. For example, when Homer says:
άλλά, φίλος, θάνε καὶ σύ· τίη ὀλυφύρεαι οὕτως;
κάθανε καὶ Πάτροκλος, ὅπερ σέο πολλὸν ἀμείνων[1],
that is in the grand style. When Virgil says:
Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem,
Fortunam ex aliis[2],
that is in the grand style. When Dante says:
Lascio lo fele, et vo pei dolci pomi
Promessi a me per lo verace Duca;
Ma fino al centro pria convien ch' io tomi[3],
that is in the grand style. When Milton says:
His form had yet not lost
All her original brightness, nor appeared
Less than archangel ruined, and the excess
Of glory obscured[4],
that, finally, is in the grand style. Now
- ↑ 'Be content, good friend, die also thou! why
lamentest thou thyself on this wise? Patroclus, too,
died, who was a far better than thou.'—Iliad, xxi.
106. - ↑ 'From me, young man, learn nobleness of soul
and true effort: learn success from others.'—Æneid,
xii. 435. - ↑ 'I leave the gall of bitterness, and I go for the
apples of sweetness promised unto me by my faithful
Guide; but far as the centre it behoves me first to
fall.'—Hell, xvi. 61. - ↑ Paradise Lost, i. 591.
