QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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This is not meant as a translation; the original is much longer, and full of images, which could not be introduced in a Sonnet.—And some of them, though very beautiful in the Italian, would not appear to advantage in an English dress.
Line 5.
'Poor maniac.'
See the Story of the Lunatic.
'Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he possesses his reason, or after he has lost it?—Full of hope you go to gather flowers in winter, and are grieved not to find any—and do not know why they cannot be found.'
Sorrows of Werter. Volume Second.
Line 8.
'And drink delicious poison from thine eye.'
Pope.
