Note 48 — COMPLAINT OF AN ARABIAN LOVER. ODE.
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l. 11. Jealous fires—A critical friend of the author’s seemed to doubt whether a frown kindling fire was just metaphor; but, since it is poetically orthodox to say that the flame of love is lighted by the sunny ray of a smile, that of jealousy may certainly be said to enkindle from the lightning of a frowning eye. There are lurid and dismal fires, as well as bright and cheerful ones.