Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town! JOHN G. LOCKHART The Bridal of Andella. 23 I saw and heard, for we sometimes, Who dwell this wild, constrained by want, come forth To town or village nigh, nighest is far, MILTON-Paradise Regained. Bk. I. L. 330. 24 Platon estime qu'il y ait quelque vice d'impiété à trop curieusement s'enquerir de Dieu et du monde. Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring too curiously about God and the world. MONTAIGNE-Essays. Bk. II. Ch. XII. (See also HAMLET) 1 Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine), 2 Endearing Waltz-to thy more melting tune Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands. 3 Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. BYRON-The Waltz. L. 234. 4 What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste? What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee? What! panting recline on another than me? Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue, From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew; What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer adieu! SIR HENRY ENGLEFIELD-The Waltz. Dancing. 5 Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, Step and dress alike express Where's the air and where's the gait? 6 To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. GRAY-Progress of Poesy. Pt. I. St. 3. L. 10. 7 Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, 8 And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. HEINE-Book of Songs. Don Ramiro. St. 23. 9 Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, |