text:  Many of the admirable descriptions of still life in _Waverley_ fade from the recollection and strike us as new every time we read them; but no one ever forgot the last words of Fergus when passing on the hurdle under the Scotch gate at Carlisle "God save King _James_!" None of the splendid descriptions in the choruses of AEschylus produce the terrible impression on the mind which Sophocles has done by that inimitable trait when in the close of _Antigone_ he makes Eurydice upon hearing of the suicide of her son Haemon on the body of his betrothed leave the stage _in silence_ to follow him by a violent death to the shades below