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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Certatim placidæ concurrat ad oscula Pollæ."
"Again from them springs a new race; a forward little troop, which sometimes climb on the shoulders of their grandfather, and sometimes, in pleasing congress, run to catch a kiss from the gentle Polla."
Seneca, Thyest. I. 145., has another imitation:
"Exceptus gladio parvulus impio,
Dum currit patrium natus ad osculum,
Immatura focis victima concidit."
"The little Pelops, met by the impious sword, while he was running to receive his father's kiss, fell a premature victim on the hearth."
Claudian, Rapt. Proserp. III. 173., has another:
"Hæc post cunabula dulci
Ferre sinu, summoque Jovi deducere parvam
Sueverat, et genibus ludentem aptare paternis."
"She was accustomed to bear the little infant, after it had slept in its cradle, in her fragrant bosom, to present it to almighty Jove, and to place it sporting on its father's knees."
But the best adaptations and expansions of the thought have been among the writers of our own country. The earliest allusion to it, I believe, occurs in Thomson's description of the traveller lost in the snow:
"In vain for him th' officious wife prepares
The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm;
In vain his little children, peeping out
Into the mingling storm, demand their sire
With tears of artless innocence! Alas!
Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold,
Nor friends, nor sacred home.
But this is a less pointed imitation than that of Gray, which succeeded it. Gray had his eye on Lucretius: