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" Est rosa flos Veneris , cujus quo furta laterent Harpocrati matris dona dicavit amor : Inde Rosam mensis hospes suspendet amieis Convivffi ut sub ea dicta tacenda seiant . " In English hexameters : — The rose , Idalian flower , under which secret things take their shelter , To Harpocrates gave his mother the gift so odorous ; Thence each host hangs the rose over his well-filled tables , That the guests learn what's spoken there is in secret .
We have , however , here no satisfactory reason Avhy the rose was more especially chosen , except the accidental falling of a little blood , which , in the views of antiquity , ought rather to have been ichor , without colour ; besides that , the tale is a plagiarism ( mutatis mutandis ) from an older poet , Lycrophon , who tells us that Hercules , when an infant , being brought to
Juno to suckle , spilt some of the ethereal milk , which falling in heaven , formed the Via Lactea , the Milky Way ; ancl some drops splashing down to earth , fell upon the lily , previously red , and changed it to white . Shakspeare , who seems to have a universal knowledge , alludes to the transformation of colour in a flower different from either of the above classical tales . In
"Midsummer Night's Dream , " act ii . sc . ii . — Oher . Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before milk-white , now purple with love ' s wound ; And maidens call it love and idleness . "
It is surely not necessary to interpret , that in the maiden's vocabulary love signifies its purest seat—the heart ? though , that idleness should always indicate ease , and therefore the Avhole our popular flower , hearts-ease , is not quite so apparent , and Ave trust not quite so true . Upon the antiquity or significancy of the cross , it is not necessary at present to descant ; the subject has often been treated at large , but is not yet fully exhausted * Its potency in
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Biographical Sketches
" Est rosa flos Veneris , cujus quo furta laterent Harpocrati matris dona dicavit amor : Inde Rosam mensis hospes suspendet amieis Convivffi ut sub ea dicta tacenda seiant . " In English hexameters : — The rose , Idalian flower , under which secret things take their shelter , To Harpocrates gave his mother the gift so odorous ; Thence each host hangs the rose over his well-filled tables , That the guests learn what's spoken there is in secret .
We have , however , here no satisfactory reason Avhy the rose was more especially chosen , except the accidental falling of a little blood , which , in the views of antiquity , ought rather to have been ichor , without colour ; besides that , the tale is a plagiarism ( mutatis mutandis ) from an older poet , Lycrophon , who tells us that Hercules , when an infant , being brought to
Juno to suckle , spilt some of the ethereal milk , which falling in heaven , formed the Via Lactea , the Milky Way ; ancl some drops splashing down to earth , fell upon the lily , previously red , and changed it to white . Shakspeare , who seems to have a universal knowledge , alludes to the transformation of colour in a flower different from either of the above classical tales . In
"Midsummer Night's Dream , " act ii . sc . ii . — Oher . Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before milk-white , now purple with love ' s wound ; And maidens call it love and idleness . "
It is surely not necessary to interpret , that in the maiden's vocabulary love signifies its purest seat—the heart ? though , that idleness should always indicate ease , and therefore the Avhole our popular flower , hearts-ease , is not quite so apparent , and Ave trust not quite so true . Upon the antiquity or significancy of the cross , it is not necessary at present to descant ; the subject has often been treated at large , but is not yet fully exhausted * Its potency in