. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ye ! Can my weakness your tyranny bridle ? Oh, no ! all resistance is idle. Ah ! my soul—ah ! my soul is submitted ; Thy lips,—thy sweet lips,—they are fittedWith a kiss to dissolve into joy and affectionThe dreamings of hope and of gay recollection : And, sure, never triumph was purer ; And, sure, never triumph was surer. I am bound to your beauty completely, I am fettered and fastened so sweetly;And blessed are the tones, and the looks, and the mind, too,Which my senses control, and my heart is inclined to: Whil
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ye ! Can my weakness your tyranny bridle ? Oh, no ! all resistance is idle. Ah ! my soul—ah ! my soul is submitted ; Thy lips,—thy sweet lips,—they are fittedWith a kiss to dissolve into joy and affectionThe dreamings of hope and of gay recollection : And, sure, never triumph was purer ; And, sure, never triumph was surer. I am bound to your beauty completely, I am fettered and fastened so sweetly;And blessed are the tones, and the looks, and the mind, too,Which my senses control, and my heart is inclined to: While virtue, the holiest and brightest. Has fastened loves fetters the tightest. JOOST VAN DEN VGNDEIv. Hoi^IvANds greatest lyricist and tragedian, Joost van denVondel, has most attracted the attention of English readersby reason of the claim made for his Lucifer (1654) thatMilton borrowed—or, at least, received hints—from it for hismajestic epic of Paradise lyost. Milton was then totallyblind, but was still valiantly fighting his Salmasian foes. DUTCH 279. He did not begin his Paradise Lost in earnest until 1658 ;but eighteen years before he had intended to treat the themedramatically. Few British critics to-day willingly acknowl-edge any debt of Milton toward Vondel, and if there was any,Milton certainly transmuted Dutch silver to English gold. Joost van den Vondel was born in1587, and died in 1679. As E. has asserted, Vondel representsthe Dutch intelligence and imagina-tion at its highest. His poeticideals are, in fact, those of the^ burgherdom to which he be-longed, and he could not soarhigher. With heroic Scripturalscenes and a lyrical beauty, hemay be styled a sort of DutchRacine. He wrote five-act dramas, in Alexandrines, withchoral interludes. In his day he had the new-risen greatnessof Holland to inspire him. William of Orange, Maurice ofNassau, Zutphen, Dunkirk—these were among his legacy ofnational pride and glory. He did not become real
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