(_Thin_ came the voice).


So in 'The Princess', sect. i.:--


And _cook'd his spleen_,


which is a phrase from the Greek, as in Homer, 'Il'., iv., 513:--

[Greek: epi naeusi cholon thumalgea pessei]

(At the ships he cooks his heart-grieving spleen).


Again in 'The Princess', sect. iv.:--

_Laugh'd with alien lips_,


which is Homer's ('Od'., 69-70)--

[Greek: did' aedae gnathmoisi gelps_on allotrioisi]


So in 'Edwin Morris'--

All perfect, finished _to the finger nail_,