_'Twas ever thus. As now at VIRGIL'S tomb_

Vows and pilgrimages are not peculiar to the religious enthusiast.
Silius Italicus performed annual ceremonies on the mountain of
Posilippo; and it was there that Boccaccio, quasi da un divino estro
inspirato, re-solved to dedicate his life to the muses.

NOTE l.

_So TULLY paus'd amid the wrecks of Time_.

When Cicero was quæstor in Sicily, he discovered the tomb of
Archimedes by its mathematical inscription.

Tusc. Quæst. v. 3.

NOTE m.

_Say why the pensive widow loves to weep_.

The influence of the associating principle is finely exemplified in
the faithful Penelope, when she sheds tears over the bow of Ulysses.
Od. xxi. 55.

NOTE n.

_If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild_

The celebrated Ranz des Vaches; cet air si chéri des Suisses qu'il