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The Sunny Side of Bereavement As Illustrated in Tennyson's in Memoriam
by CHARLES E. COOLEDGE
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BEREAVEMENT
TTH
J
BY
Rev.
G.
CHARLES
CUPPLES
E.
COOLEDGE
CO., Publishers
Efie
Copyright,
By
J.
i^'go,
G. CuppLEs Company,
PKHSS OF
Hodges
&
Adams,
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Knapp
BOSTON, MASS.
St.,
^3(-
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
Book
13
^ffectianatdo
D.D.,
En^rcribctJ.
CONTENTS.
I.
II.
The Bereavement
Grief and Despair
....
.
III.
WiLL-o'-THE-Wisp Lights
IV.
V.
VI.
...
.
....
PAGE.
.3
6
.10
14
.
49
PREFACE
'T'HE
full significance of
ethical
and
like
in its
the surface.
In Memoriam^
It is
Enoch Arden
metaphysical in
its
or the
May
Queen^ but
tone, discussing
is
some of the
of
its
its
composition
easy interpre-
tation.
The poem
is
feelings
PREFACE.
These
years.
poems,
separate
it
are
true,
is
linked together and unified, so that in the comfind " a beginning, a correlation
poem we
pleted
of parts, a progress
is
this
there
is
the circumstances,
clearly stated
and
to
and
specific
logical arrangement,
many
minds, in this
An
and unread.
may
may
not be
The
subject
general way,
is
bereavement
of
In Memoriam^ stated
in
more
PREFACE.
XI
the century,"
religious
poem of the
correct
for
it
truths.
ual
spirit-
duties of Christianity
and
for
prophets.
of
all
ent altogether upon outward proof, but are intuitions of the soul, revealed directly to
his spiritual consciousness.
revelation, as well as
voices
these
same.
For a mind
so unreservedly
cant
fact,
is
an internal
are listened to
There
man through
is
like
is
itself
signifi-
PREFACE.
Xll
has no foundation in
fact.
to
be highly prized
its
these ideas
it
is
is
its
song.
is
It appeals, pri-
the
heart.
Its
great mission
is
to tell the
ment there
is
It is the attrac-
and
poem
its
bereavement
poem
is
a universal experience,
so the
thoughts
tested.
As
is,
Its influence is
The author
have
been experimentally
PREFACE.
xill
many more
some recorded,
is
illustrations
made known
TN
in
MEMORTAM
is
his sisters.
man
personal
and exalted
character.
are portrayed in
gyric strains
qualities,
the
brilliant
distin-
of
fas-
intellect
poem
in
lofty
'
and pane-
"
**
With
delight,"
'
Muses deck'd
might express
All-comprehensive tenderness,
All-subtilizing intellect,"
The sweetest
soul
Thus
ities
The man
richly
of body,
Tennyson an
'
mind and
ideal friend
soul,
:
Hallam was
to
reverence
and
are to
affection
me""
'
was recipro-
like
OF BEREAVEMENT.
that of Jonathan and David, was " wonderful,
rudely
companionship
interrupted
was
by the
and
suddenly
hand
of
death.
by a rush of blood
to the head,
which resulted
'
The blow
fell
and
long
which,
aid,
of
He had hoped
his
for a
friend,
and
life
doubled
all
its
joys
and when
still,
And He
Land
trials
they
the
He
gone.
is left
shock of
first
is
seemed divested of
now
and die
In
great bereavement
life
all
me
remains of good
**
And what
to
For
"
And
all is
in
my
friend,"
heart, if calm at
"
''
'^
'*
all,
On
His friend
over.
alone.
to live
his
shining hand,
soul." "
'^
This year
I
I slept
And
that
Before
my
hold on
life
would break
'*
OF BEREAVEMENT.
His grief seemed
and
to
the
veil
brightest
to cast
and
objects
fairest
made the
"
"
rose
The
takes entire
grief
reaching
nature,
of thought
down
and feeling
" Beneath
Ay me,
Whose
all
this
to
:
possession
the
of
his
lowest springs
drown
woe and
life in tears."
despair, as
^*
it
appears to
'^
The bases of my
And
to the shower."
Yet
in these ears,
One
set
slow
till
bell will
hearing dies,
seem to
toll
soul
^^
it
now, and
and
o'er
o'er,
And
'
'
^'
WILL-o'-THE-WISP LIGHTS.
In Memoriam
ing, in exquisite
of
is
and tender
This
is
presses
also
cepted as
certain
true
an elegy, embalm-
in part
memory
verse, the
only purpose
it
ex-
consolatory thoughts,
ac-
much mental
after
struggle,
sorrow
and peace.
In Memoriam
of
is
trust
a psalm of faith
At
as
well as
a funeral
OF BEREAVEMENT.
held
it
with him
truth,
who
sings
The
is
a precious truth
in his
own experience
loss,
soul,
of
its
desire
no
happiness
and companionship
thought
absence
tained
is
if
any
moreover, in
bereavement
shock
the
little
of
too
seems
first
almost
to
the departed;
at
least
repugnant
even to be enter-
But who
And And
in loss
Or reach a hand
The
and
the
'
relief.
The
uncertain.
the thought of
a gain to match?
thro' time to catch
"
The Poet
no consolation in contact
finds
with nature.
of
spiritual desolation
fate, of
''The
stars,'
A web
and death
blind
is
'
"And
all
With
all
A
A
hollow echo of
my own
" ^*
That 'Loss
is
common
finds
to the race.'"
no comfort in knowing
This does
That loss
My own
is
his
own
grief
common would
not
rather
:
make
more.""
in-
OF BEREAVEMENT.
Such
powerless to help
"And
is
Nor does
his
consolation,
"s
influence of time.
To have
grow
ory,
friend,
:
this
would be
lest
both be drown'd,
To dance with
loss,
^'^
The long
result of love,
and boast,
But
all
To such
he was
is
overworn.'
voices as these
"
lost,
^'^
Tennyson
cries,
as
10
Job did
many such
things
all."
We
come now
consolation.
of
know
that
him
not
body of
the
buried
afforded
It
in
his
some
away
laid
to
relief
Vienna where he
but
soil
to other
in
died,
English
'tis
Where he
we may
something;
stand
know
that though
the casket
It
which enshrined
more
it
to be beheld
around
its
to
that
grow; over
it
the
upon
and teara
of love
and
grief.
floral offerings
it
OF BEREAVEMENT.
11
was obtained
some
respite
lies;
exercise.
"
no
direct
consolation was
afforded,
Happy
peUed by circumstances,
is
man
pation, realization
the last
is
and
retrospection,
by no means the
least.
of
antici-
which
Happiness
12
times
again,
by
back
led
memory's
memory
comfort
The words
hand.
it
cannot
find,
"
And
all
To dying
It
may
lips is all
This
as well as pleasure.
it is
is
not denied
only
when
'Tis better to
Than never
Moreover,
character
of
in
his
strengthening
life.
He
it
I feel it,
own
he said)."^*
and
sorrow most;
remembering
friend,
there
benign
the
^^
life
and
was exerted a
influence
imagines himself
upon
his
dead in the
OF BEREAVEMENT.
13
The
blow,
The Poet
his friend,
is
The most
to,
and a part
web of
woven
in
is
so
tence,
many dark
humanly speaking,
a blessing.
death,
In the
threads are
the
anguish
unendurable that
is
What would
have
human
Sometimes pain
sometimes
excruciating and
and
lives are
by sorrow.
ills
of,
and happy
successful
overmatches
comfort me."
to
exis-
the springtime,
vision.
14
It is
some comfort,
surely, to
know
that
the
if
The
friends
have
are
missed,
passed within
longed for;
as
yet,
the lives of
back
if
we
the
vail
their lives
if
By
could.
are
we would not
some,
who
them
call
the
earthly
into
life,
that
Better
Land
'
'They
rest,'
we
Surely rest
is
meet:
THE GREAT
LIGHTS.
grave
"
consolation
existence
of
his
friend
beyond
'
die
and
the
OF BEREAVEMENT.
15
The body
dust
into
of
but the
immortal essence,
soul, the
known by
is
extinct,
panion,
manifesting
Poet's
upon reason,
out a future
intuition
life
it
had not
com-
old
its
immortality
in
faith
whose
itself
wills,
effects, that
its
separated from
become
The
^'
and
based
is
revelation.
With-
an
inexpli-
the present
life is
My own dim
That
should teach
is
this,
all
that is."
me
for evermore.
Else earth
And
life
is
^^
nothing to the
"
What
then were
God
to such as I ?
my
while to choose
16
Of things
mortal, or to use
all
little
patience ere
Love
also
would
idle tale
a sigh,
Will change
my
Half-dead to
know
man
If
and power,
happiness he
"
I die." ^^
No more
*^
and
is
is
discord.
in their slime,
evils,
him.' "
*'
physical and
hope
of
Heaven, the
life
doctrine
of
Pessimism
wisdom
OF BEREAVEMENT.
'*
17
To drop head-foremost
Of vacant darkness and
But
this
view of
human
*^
reason emphati-
life,
sad
and
and
faculties
jaws
to cease."
Human
such
in the
stupendous
life
cannot be
failure.
made
to
Man's
remain
Far
su-
he
evolution,
is
immortality
ages
at
materialistic
of
emotion
perhaps, in
evolving
man, now,
finished,
and
is
happiness and
in
to
turies,
when
them
worth.
For
below
be
cannot
and
and
man,
volition,
endowed
reason,
possessing a conscience
and
with
become a living
jewel of crea-
soul, the
brightest
tion;
to
costliest
18
with
being,
and
desires
death
lost,
capacities
his
unsatisfied,
undeveloped
be plunged
to
is
night,
eternal
into
still
Godlike powers
his
resolved
a supposition
such
improbable but
not only
is
at
irra-
But
this
if
much more
is
personal
loving
true on
it
Tennyson
the universe.
on the materialistic,
true
is
is
behind
lies
being,
phenomena
all
powerful,
all
To him
theist.
wise,
all
is
all
Whom
By
faith,
Believing where
we
his
'*
own experience
If e'er
I
when
faith
heard a voice
'
cannot prove."
he
upon
face.
falls
had
fall'n asleep,
believe no more,'
in the
*''
Godless deep
*^
;
: :
OF BEREAVEMENT.
*
A warmth
The freezing
And
man
like a
God
Believing thus in
immortality
19
felt.'""*'
he believes also in
*'
The
and love
justice
of
God
prove to
man
is
intuition.
Herbert
is
impossible
non-existent.
thinkable."
to
And what
is
un-
my
it
true;
is
is
20
For
I
tho'
cannot
my
may
lips
breathe adieu,
*^
a self-evident truth
a datum of conscious-
ness.
immediate knowledge,
this
it
men do
may
not have
be said that
ual
and
are not
reason
development, and
for
and simple
meaningless terms.
"a growing up
this
to
"There
is,"
are only
says
the recognition
to
Spencer,
of
certain
of
faculties.
more complex
This principle
is
at
To developed
intelli-
OF BEREAVEMENT.
21
self-
The
of
a future
Christ
life
is
Jesua
Revelation of
the
"Tho' truths
in
manhood darkly
join,
We
yield
Of Him
That
all
that
blessing to the
name
coin."
is,
in
*^
inti-
life,
man's nature,
is
the dead to
"
life
When
truth
by
this
demanded
if
of
calling
And home
Was
its
doctrine
he yearn'd
his grave
^^
im-
back
22
**
Where wert
There
lives
no record of reply,
From
The
^'
to praise.
streets
were
fill'd
The
He
Olivet.
^^
raised up by Christ
told
The
By
to die
lips
it
of that Evangelist."
'"^
"life
own
life
and immortality
and conditions
all classes
"
And
so the
of
Word had
men
breath, and
wrought
Or
may
all
poetic thought,
And
^*
t^'^c
*Lie
grave,
OF BEREAVEMENT.
The
Poet
objection
urged
existence
after
alleged
not
is
unacquainted
against
death,
opposition
the
of
physical
more
has changed
doctrine of a future
soul's
with
the
continued
the ground
or
of
science,
the
and
23
its
life,
for science in
attitude
toward
some
the
end
all.
years ago
*
strife,
dreams?
evil
'
'
From scarped
She cries
I
'
cliff
life. ^
'
but no.
24
"
'
Thou makest
bring to
The
I
The
life,
bring to death
spirit
know no
more.' "
^'
personal immortality
that
fact
Poet a passing
the
chill,
science
is
not
gives the
He
doctrine.
it
is
recognizes
physical
that
human knowledge,
that
The
and
of
intuition
Him who
heeded,
as
especially
voices of instinct
well
when
as
man
that
of
their testimony
only negative
against the
says
know;
for
doctrine
"It may be
I
science
of
true,
it
is
is,
gives
so clear
have no means at
and
at the best,
no evidence
immortality,
may
science,
not be.
simply
it
do not
my command
for
25
OF BEREAVEMENT.
So strong
the
evidence of
a future
life
Poet
to the
by
afforded
yet,
The
man and
soul of
the
the revela-
came
What
we
are,
and then
At least to me?
would not
stay."
days
if
into collision
'Not
if
materialism,
How
the
"Gospel of
being so earnestly
is
spiritual
refreshing in these
when
it,
^^
when the
spiritual
26
made
how
refresh-
and supremacy
willing
God
but
also
unto
render
to
And
life
of
unmingled
The mere
growth.
has in
this life
as the Poet
determined
it
felicity
fact
continued existence
of
and uninterrupted
What
take away
future
existence
What
the nature of
is
What
give ?
in the
does
What
of
it
involve
the
soul,
but
it
was an
existence so unsubstantial
and
darkest and
upon
be preferred.
The Hindoos
brighter
and
saddest
to
life
it
is
in
joyless that
the
doctrine
the
of
OF BEREAVEMENT.
The Pantheist
of transmigration.
27
believes that
the
in
To
is
life
The great
Intelligences fair
state,
flesh
In the
^'
was enjoy-
velopment of
if
and
and powers.
is
his life
certain
de-
The
Arthur
28
And
Heaven
in
life that
is
given
Perhaps,
in
^^
need of him
here
' So
So
many
little
worlds, so
much
to do.
How know
blessed existence of
and imperfections
and
desires not
the
more
thee,
all
the limita-
perfect
environment of
God's
im-
29
OF BEREAVEMENT.
mediate presence,
fitted
to
this
minister
surely
a belief well
the
to
is
is
and
lives
and changeless
life of his
friend has
on in Heaven, as pure,
as before
"
warm
They do not
die
Even though
a dreary
doctrine which the Poet does not accept, even
or weakened
then the love would not be
tomb
lost
"
To
this beautiful
30
Is it certain that
accompany the
Man,
it
soul
said,
is
memory
into
eternal
the
memory
often fails
awaken
in
if
this
flash
world?
why, then,
Heaven altogether
To
earthly career?
this the
mature
in
may
oblivious
Poet
life
of
replies,
its
even
lost
knowl-
May
sorae
fall,
My
But there
that
^'
is
of
thee
all."
memory becomes
experiences
tell
extinct
infancy
are
at
death.
The
not remembered
OF BEREAVEMENT.
because
the intellectual
31
What time
to earth
his tender
suffi-
and sky,
palm
is
prest
Memory
years, either
suffers
We
ranging
down
of
life
should
fail in
looking back."
memory
Lest
But
will
be removed
'
dimming
Another objection
love in
his intellectual
32
superiority,
in time, to
'*
An
inner trouble
spectral doubt
That
This
Who
the
which makes me
cold,
I shall
there
moor
behold,
a practical and
is
is
skirts the
common
"
objection.
departed friend
tunities of
at
to
To
objection
this
affection
tioned
intellectual
mind
own:
is
to
the
in
if
it
nor
attainments.
propor-
No
love
The
But
is
human
love of
any value
"
to the glori-
33
OF BEREAVEMENT.
fied
spirit?
too
The
friend's
little
precious ever
And
How
How
How
in
Heaven
if
upon
rested
:
Should
still
Is there
Shall he for
we
dread?
whose applause
'^
I strove,
And
own
No
his
Do we
is
to be lost,
love
a fancy trouble-tost
lull
all
be lessen'd
in his
love?""
'*
34
To
the
this
human
does
imperfection,
it
may
grieve
on
not
that
becomes
like
God
resembles
Him
more
the
character,
in
'
'
So fret not,
That
life is
Abide
then,
girl,
thy wealth
When Time
Love
an idle
like
is
gather'd in,
like
the
soul, is
glory
and
79
indestructible.
to annihilate the
remem-
it
lessen
all
the
darken
the
love
which
no power to
chill or
the
Divine
now, in
OF BEREAVEMENT.
presence, resembles
love of
God
35
Himself.
With
source
comfort,
of
is
presence of Arthur.
associated, as another
in
belief
To enjoy
the
spiritual
this presence
had
Poet
tingle;
all
is sicl?,
" Be near
Is rack'd
me when
To
prick
me when
fade away,
human
strife,
THE
36
And on
The
sujsTPrr
side
^^
and
a real
in
friend
is
though
off
thou
I have thee
'
'
answered,
"Far
is
art,
and
still,
The face
I rejoice. ^^
will shine
At
speak to
me
me and
of
mine."
among
^*
"Nor
count
me
all
Conjecture of a
to blame if I
stiller guest,
Perchance, perchance,
And, tho'
may be
in silence,
among
the rest,
wishing joy."
^*
OF BEREAVEMENT.
37
ministry of angels
ings of the
Angel
is
''
The
of the
that fear
The
friends.
Him, and
delivereth them."
"
He
shall
thy ways.
all
They
shall
bear thee
uj^
in
stone."
Angelic
visitations
punishment,
deliverance
were common
occurrences
All the
history.
for
counsel,
and
in
guidance,
encouragement,
Old
Testament
Jew saw
to
New
to the
Testament history.
Angels announced
and John.
Over the
plain,
near Bethlehem,
38
In the
Garden
the
their
of
To
Lord.
temptation and in
vv^ilderness of
the troubled
and despairing
of
tion
Christ,
Resurrec-
they
direct-
By
the
hand
from
delivered
friends.
of
an angel
prison
and
restored
unto
ing from
God words
of
his
bring-
encouragement
and
hope.
angelic
intimations
and
the
ministration.
hints
in
the
New
There
are
Testament
OF BEREAVEMENT.
which seem to indicate the Divine guardianship
through the medium of angels
" There
is
what
then, with
is
God
them who
shall
in
over one
"Are
sent forth
to
they not
Heaven
the
face
my
of
all
minister for
"For
be heirs of salvation?"
always behold
read,
therein.
ministering spirits,
we
joy,"
is
by no means
is
their angels do
Father which
Heaven."
prehended
in
it,
soul,
there
sense,
encompass
is
it
may
around
nothing irrational,
same power
to the finite
mind.
ministry of angels
is true,
as reason
and
and
revela-
40
seem
tion
more
nothing could be
indicate,
to
them
and intenser
feeling,
Tennyson's
in
loved
know and
faith
known and
the
love in Heaven.
presence
of
his
was
Arthur.
not physical.
spiritual
This communion
While desirous
of
expectation that
He
of
is
this
most emphatic
desire
in
will
be
satisfied.
friends.
spirit,
There
is
no materialization of
the
In respect to
41
OF BEREAVEMENT.
"I
So strong and
utter
is
his
disbelief,
that,
make appeal
to
experience,
he
its reality,
"Count
but
vain
"^^
As but the canker of the brain.
Though
events
it
common
to
their
past
it
own memory
it
And
tho' the
coming year;
Even
this
mind
"
^^
And such
As often
refraction of events
rises ere they rise."
^^
own
42
These
to
settle
Whether
Tennyson
not
or
modern
the doctrine of
a believer in
is
spiritism ?
"
in
communication
'
No
visual shade of
But
may come
nerve of sense is numb;
all
the
Spirit to Spirit,
ever,
is
lost,
Where
The
some one
enjoyment
of
Ghost to Ghost."
this
not unconditional
communion, how-
a certain attitude of
is
purity of
heart,
toward God
'
How
essential.
There must be
With what
An
hour's
^'
OF BEREAVEMENT.
The
spirit
must be
The
from
spirits
43
call
My
spirit is at
peace with
all."^^
cloudless
"They haunt
fair,
ion
is
of
" But
when
the heart
And doubt
And hear
of din,
is full
own:
the heart
if
impossible
to descend
^^
and enter
into
these
spirit
^*
conditions, the
of
his
friend
communion with
his
44
My
answered.
summer
At
name;
frame
to
is
near."
^*
seems to him,
it
is
had been
evening, which
delightfully-
companionship of
He
Arthur.
"Those
As
fall'n
'''
other:
upon
is satisfied
his own,
the spirit of
line,
And
all
at once
it
seem'd at
flash'd
past,
last
on mine,
^'
OF BEREAVEMENT.
*
And mine
in his
About empyreal
And came on
The deep
45
whirl'd
lieights of thought,
that
which
is,
and caught
^^
that
the
of
Apostle
cable
'*
Vague words
but ah,
how hard
to frame
Or
Thro'
Nor was
memory
"At
Was
length
my
trance
with doubt."
**
46
While
*'
rose up against
my
doom.
^^
But while
this
me now."
could
experience
regarded as incontestably
real,
'^
be
not
it
pres-
firmed.
Another and
was
Arthur in Heaven.
his
old
spent so
home
in
As he was about
hours, he
had
where he
Lincolnshire,
many happy
leaving
had a beautiful
He
seemed, in
his
vision,
to
be
by springs from
far-off
hills.
Com-
47
OF BEREAVEMENT.
his friend
dove flew
sea.
They
in,
summons from
bringing a
enter a
little
hall.
shallop
and
glide
the
down
floods.
his
roll the
companions grow in
spiritual power.
On
and
the ocean
great ship
lift
"*
his friend,
in silence
who
on his neck.
They
sails steer
"Toward
all
a crimson cloud
^'^^
symbol
or prophecy of
48
Abiding witli
'
To seek
And the
till
I sail
keeps
And we
"
me
'^
fail.
What
Of love on earth?"
Will
there
Heaven ?
be
length,
'"^
recognition
friends
of
"Eternal form
The
mood
in
The
eternal soul
And
I shall
from
all
beside;
"*
strong and
joyous
that
it
greatly-
me
By
future
their
is
fled,
to be."
'
communion
will
be greatly increased
OF BEREAVEMENT.
"
To
hold
little
For
*
49
me from my
is this,
proper place,
"
:
meet,
The
change.
sense
loss
and
Hallam
had
irreparable
of
desolation,
which
occasioned,
no longer
his mind.
his
friend
death
the
of
haunted and
was as truly
"Far
off
thou
I have' thee
art,
still,
I prosper, circled
I shall
"Known
and
I rejoice;
I die."
"*
senses,
and perhaps as
alive,
oppressed
lips
and eye;
50
The
that his
grow cold
might
away
fear
own
and
die,
*'^
dim has
passed
also
'*
My
My
is
vaster passion
now;
He
is
home
of
""
Hallam
his
determines
return to
I will
And
his
secluded
life
not shut
me from my
kind.
I will
not eat
my
heart alone,
He
ship
and
the
his fellow-men
*'
abandon
to
He
"^
OF BEREAVEMENT.
and
one,
which,
was
passionate,
friend
intense
and
affectionate
and
not
nevertheless
new
This
true.
though
was
51
as
received,
as
he
to hear biddinoo
him
Though no
expressed, yet
and love
of
now
God
is
more firmly
to
his
some way
good
""^
all
belief
is
and he
fixed,
that the
And hear
"'
at times a sentinel
Who moves
And whispers
in the
worlds of space,
all is well.
"^
62
"
tho.se that
hear
Edmund Law
marriage of his
Cecilia to
sister
The Poet
The music,
occasion.
the
dance, the
feasting,
now pervade
He
mind.
his
wedding
feast he conjectures
"
Of a
But while
now upon
80
cold
still
in
in
at the
stiller guest,
Perchance, perchance,
And, tho'
has not
silence,
among
the rest,
wishing joy."
bereavement he
it.
is
His
'-'^
dwelling
life,
witli
once
the
53
OF BEREAVEMENT.
warm, bright beams
shadow
of
morning
death
consolation,
of
has
been
turned
and
the
into
the
is
INDEX
.
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
IG
17
18
19
ex,
cxi, G
Ixxxv, 12
.
xcix,
cix, 2
cix, o
3
. xiv, 3
ix, 5
Ixxxv, 5
Ivii,
Ixxxiv, 11
.
vi, 11
viii,
vi. 11
41
xi, 4
42
43
44
45
4G
47
48
49
50
xxviii, 4
Ixxii, 2
Ixxii, 3
xlix, 4
20
21
i,
i,
2
2
3
22
28
24
25
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
30
37
38
39
40
3
Ivii, 4
Ivii,
iii,
iii,
2fi
vi, 1
27
vi, 2
51
52
53
54
VI,
i,
xviii,
V,
xviii,
.
xxxvii,
xxvii,
Ixxx,
XXX,
XXX,
xxxiv,
xxxiv,
XXX v.
Ivi
xxxiv,
Proloi>-ne,
.
cxxiv,
cxxiv,
Prolo.i^ue.
.
cxxiii,
.
.
.
.
.
.
xxxvi,
xxxi.
xxxi,
xxxi,
XKXi,
xxxvi,
56
55
56
57
58
59
CO
INDEX.
...
...
...
xxxvi, 4
80
81
82
83
84
li
li
111
li
lii
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
cxx, 2
Ixxxv, G
Ixxxv, 7
xl, 5
Ixxv, 5
Ixxiii, 1
XXX, G
xliii, 4
xliv, 3
xliv, 4
xlv,
xlvi, 1
xlvi, 2
xli, 5
ixi,
Ixv,
Ixi, 2
cxxx
cxvi
Epilogue.
xciii
xcii
xcii
xcii
xciii
90
Ivi,
Ivi, 2
85,.
86
87
88
89
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
(U
02
03
04
05
GG
07
08
09
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
Iv, 2
THE END.
xciv
xciv
xciv
xciv
xciii
xcv
xcv
xcv,
xcv,
xcv,
xcv,
cxxii
cxxii
ciii,
ciii,
ex XV
xlvii
xlvii
cxvi
cxvii
cxvii
cxxx
.
cxx IX
cxxx
cviii
Ixxxv,
cxxvi
cxxvi
cxxvii
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