Chapter CVIII: Act V: Scene I (2)

The following letter, dated July 21, 1711, was sent by Addison to his friend Mr. Wortley Montagu, with No. 123 of the _Spectator_.

'Dear Sir,

'Being very well pleased with this day's _Spectator_ I cannot forbear
sending you one of them, and desiring your opinion of the story in it.
When you have a son I shall be glad to be his Leontine, as my
circumstances will probably be like his. I have within this
twelvemonth lost a place of £200 per ann., an estate in the Indies of
£14,000, and what is worse than all the rest, my mistress. Hear this,
and wonder at my philosophy. I find they are going to take away my
Irish place from me too: to which I must add, that I have just
resigned my fellowship, and that stocks sink every day. If you have
any hints or subjects, pray send me up a paper full. I long to talk an
evening with you. I believe I shall not go for Ireland this summer,
and perhaps would pass a month with you if I knew where. Lady Bellasis
is very much your humble servant. Dick Steele and I often remember
you.'

_I am, Dear Sir, Yours eternally_.

_To Nos. 453, 461, and 465._

The _Retrospective Review_, vol. xi. for 1825, in a cordially appreciative review of the writings of Marvell, says,

'Captain Thompson was a very incorrect and injudicious editor of
Marvell's works. A very contemptible charge of plagiarism is also
preferred by the editor against Addison for the insertion of three
hymns in the _Spectator_, Nos. 453, 461, and 465; no proof whatever is
vouchsafed that they belong to Marvell, and the hymn inserted in the
_Spectator_, No. 461, "When Israel freed from Pharaoh's land," is now
known to be the noble composition of Dr. Watts.'

Captain Edward Thompson's edition of Marvell in 3 volumes quarto was printed for the editor in 1776. Its great blunder was immediately disposed of in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for September, 1776, and February, 1777, where it was shown for example that Dr. Watts had claimed and transferred his version of the 114th Psalm (which Captain Thompson supposed to have been claimed by 'Tickle') to his volume of _Divine Psalms and Hymns_, published in 1719. In the preface to that volume Dr. Watts wrote,

'Where I have used three or four lines together of any author I have
acknowledged it in the notes.'

He did make frequent acknowledgment of lines or thoughts taken from other poets in Psalms 6, 21, 63, 104, 139. But in a note to Ps. 114 he absolutely spoke of the work as his own. Now the ground upon which Thompson ascribed this piece to Marvell is precisely that on which he also ascribed to Marvell Addison's poems in Nos. 453 and 465 of the _Spectator_. He found them all in the latter part of a book of extracts of which he said that the first part was in Marvell's handwriting, 'and the rest copied by his order.' It is very doubtful whether even the first part of the MS. book, containing verse of Marvell's, was really in Marvell's handwriting, and that the part written later was copied by his order, is an unfounded assumption. Captain Thompson said of the MS. book that it was many years in the care of Mr. Nettleton, and communicated to the editor by Mr. Thomas Raikes.--Probably it was Mr. Nettleton who in his youth had added to the book copies of Addison's and Dr. Watts's verses from the _Spectator_, and Mallet's version of the old ballad of William and Margaret, all of which pieces Captain Edward Thompson therefore supposed to have been written by Marvell.

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TRANSLATIONS OF THE MOTTOS.

No.

1. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 143.

'One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke;
Another out of smoke brings glorious light,
And (without raising expectation high)
Surprises us with dazzling miracles.'

(Roscommon).

2. JUV. Sat. vii. 167.

'Six more, at least, join their consenting voice.'

3. LUCR. 1. iv. 959.

'--What studies please, what most delight,
And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.'

(Creech).

4. HOR. 2 Sat. vi. 58.

'One of uncommon silence and reserve.'

5. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 5.

'Admitted to the sight, would you not laugh?'

6. JUV. Sat. xiii. 54.

' 'Twas impious then (so much was age revered)
For youth to keep their seats when an old man appear'd.'

7. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 208.

'Visions and magic spells can you despise,
And laugh at witches, ghosts, and prodigies?'

8. VIRG. Æn. i. 415.

'They march obscure, for Venus kindly shrouds
With mists their persons, and involves in clouds.'

(Dryden).

9. JUV. Sat. xv. 163.

'Tiger with tiger, bear with bear, you'll find
In leagues offensive and defensive join'd.'

(Tate).

10. VIRG. Georg. i. 201.

'So the boat's brawny crew the current stem,
And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream:
But if they slack their hands, or cease to strive,
Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive.'

(Dryden).

11. JUV. Sat. ii. 63.

'The doves are censured, while the crows are spared.'

12. PERS. Sat. v. 92.

'I root th' old woman from thy trembling heart.'

13. MART.

'Were you a lion, how would you behave?'

14. OVID, Met. iv. 590.

'Wretch that thou art! put off this monstrous shape.'

15. OVID, Ars Am. i. 159.

'Light minds are pleased with trifles.'

16. HOR. 1 Ep. i. ii.

'What right, what true, what fit we justly call,
Let this be all my care--for this is all.'

(Pope).

17. JUV. x. 191.

'--A visage rough,
Deform'd, unfeatured.'

18. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 187.

'But now our nobles too are fops and vain,
Neglect the sense, but love the painted scene.'

(Creech).

19. HOR. 1 Sat. iv. 17.

'Thank Heaven, that made me of an humble mind;
To action little, less to words inclined!'

20. HOM.

'Thou dog in forehead.'

(Pope).

21. HOR. 1 Ep. v. 28.

'There's room enough, and each may bring his friend.'

(Creech).

22. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 5.

'--Whatever contradicts my sense
I hate to see, and never can believe.'

(Roscommon).

23. VIRG. Æn. ix. 420.

'Fierce Volscens foams with rage, and gazing round,
Descry'd not him who gave the fatal wound;
Nor knew to fix revenge.'

(Dryden).

24. HOR. 1 Sat. ix. 3.

'Comes up a fop (I knew him but by fame),
And seized my hand, and call'd me by name--
--My dear!--how dost?'

25. VIRG. Æn. xii. 46.

'And sickens by the very means of health.'

26. HOR. 1 Od. iv. 13.

'With equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate:
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares,
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts, and Pluto's house below.'

(Creech).

27. HOR. 1 Ep. i 20. _Imitated_.

'Long as to him, who works for debt, the day;
Long as the night to her, whose love's away;
Long as the year's dull circle seems to run
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one:
So slow th' unprofitable moments roll,
That lock up all the functions of my soul;
That keep me from myself, and still delay
Life's instant business to a future day:
That task, which as we follow, or despise,
The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise:
Which done, the poorest can no wants endure,
And which not done, the richest must be poor.'

(Pope).

28. HOR. 2 Od. x. 19.

'Nor does Apollo always bend his bow.'

29. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 23.

'Both tongues united, sweeter sounds produce,
Like Chian mixed with Palernian juice.'

30. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 65.

'If nothing, as Mimnermus strives to prove,
Can e'er be pleasant without mirth and love,
Then live in mirth and love, thy sports pursue.'

(Creech).

31. VIRG. Æn. vi. 266.

'What I have heard, permit me to relate.'

32. HOR. 1 Sat. v. 64.

'He wants no tragic vizor to increase
His natural deformity of face.'

33. HOR. 1 Od. xxx. 5.

'The graces with their zones unloosed;
The nymphs, with beauties all exposed
From every spring, and every plain;
Thy powerful, hot, and winged boy;
And youth, that's dull without thy joy;
And Mercury, compose thy train.'

(Creech).

34. JUV. Sat. xv. 159.

'From spotted skins the leopard does refrain.'

(Tate).

35. CATULL. Carm. 39. in Enat.

'Nothing so foolish as the laugh of fools.'

36. VIRG. Æn. iii. 583.

'Things the most out of nature we endure.'

37. VIRG. Æn. vii. 805.

'Unbred to spinning, in the loom unskill'd.'

(Dryden).

38. MART.

'One would not please too much.'

39. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 102. _Imitated_.

'Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-headed rhyming race.'

(Pope).

40. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 208. _Imitated_.

'Yet lest you think I rally more than teach,
Or praise, malignant, arts I cannot reach,
Let me for once presume t' instruct the times,
To know the poet from the man of rhymes;
'Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains,
Can make me feel each passion that he feigns;
Enrage, compose, with more than magic art,
With pity, and with terror, tear my heart;
And snatch me o'er the earth, or through the air,
To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.'

(Pope).

41. OVID, Met. i. 654.

'So found, is worse than lost.'

(Addison).

42. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 202. _Imitated_.

'Loud as the wolves on Orca's stormy steep,
Howl to the roarings of the northern deep:
Such is the shout, the long applauding note,
At Quin's high plume, or Oldfield's petticoat:
Or when from court a birth-day suit bestow'd
Sinks the last actor in the tawdry load.
Booth enters--hark! the universal peal!--
But has he spoken?--Not a syllable--
What shook the stage, and made the people stare?
Cato's long wig, flower'd gown, and lacker'd chair.'

(Pope).

43. VIRG. Æn. vi. 854.

'Be these thy arts; to bid contention cease, Chain up stern wars, and give the nations peace; O'er subject lands extend thy gentle sway, And teach with iron rod the haughty to obey.'

44. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 123.

'Now hear what every auditor expects.'

(Roscommon).

45. Juv. Sat. iii. 100.

'The nation is a company of players.'

46. OVID, Met. 1. i. ver. 9.

'The jarring seeds of ill-concerted things.'

47. MART.

'Laugh, if you are wise.'

48. OVID, Met. xiv. 652.

'Through various shapes he often finds access.'

49. MART.

'Men and manners I describe.'

50. JUN. Sat. xix. 321.

'Good taste and nature always speak the same.'

51. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 127.

'He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth.'

(Pope).

52. VIRG. Æn. i. 78.

'To crown thy worth, she shall be ever thine,
And make thee father of a beauteous line.'

53. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 359.

'Homer himself hath been observed to nod.'

(Roscommon).

54. HOR. 1. Ep. xi. 28.

'Laborious idleness our powers employs.'

55. PERS. Sat. v. 129.

'Our passions play the tyrants in our breasts.'

56. LUCAN, i. 454.

'Happy in their mistake.'

57. JUV. Sat. vi. 251.

'What sense of shame in woman's breast can lie,
Inured to arms, and her own sex to fly?'

58. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 361.

'Poems like pictures are.'

59. SENECA.

'Busy about nothing.'

60. PERS. Sat. iii. 85.

'Is it for this you gain those meagre looks,
And sacrifice your dinner to your books?'

61. PERS. Sat. v. 19.

' 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage
In lofty trifles, or to swell my page
With wind and noise.'

(Dryden).

62. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 309.

'Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.'

(Roscommon).

63. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. i.

'If in a picture, Piso, you should see A handsome woman with a fish's tail, Or a man's head upon a horse's neck, Or limbs of beasts, of the most different kinds, Cover'd with feathers of all sorts of birds; Would you not laugh, and think the painter mad? Trust me that book is as ridiculous, Whose incoherent style, like sick men's dreams, Varies all shapes, and mixes all extremes.'

(Roscommon).

64. JUV. Sat. iii. 183.

'The face of wealth in poverty we wear.'

65. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 90.

'Demetrius and Tigellius, know your place;
Go hence, and whine among the school-boy race.'

66. HOR. 1 Od. vi. 21.

'Behold a ripe and melting maid
Bound 'prentice to the wanton trade:
Ionian artists, at a mighty price,
Instruct her in the mysteries of vice,
What nets to spread, where subtle baits to lay;
And with an early hand they form the temper'd clay.'

(Roscommon).

67. SALLUST.

'Too fine a dancer for a virtuous woman.'

68. OVID, Met. i. 355.

'We two are a multitude.'

69. VIRG. Georg. i. 54.

'This ground with Bacchus, that with Ceres suits;
That other loads the trees with happy fruits,
A fourth with grass, unbidden, decks the ground:
Thus Tmolus is with yellow saffron crown'd;
India black ebon and white iv'ry bears;
And soft Idume weeps her od'rous tears:
Thus Pontus sends her beaver stones from far:
And naked Spaniards temper steel for war:
Epirus for th' Elean chariot breeds
(In hopes of palms) a race of running steeds.
This is th' original contract; these the laws
Imposed by nature, and by nature's cause.'

(Dryden).

70. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 63.

'Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright.'

71. OVID, Epist. iv. 10.

'Love bade me write.'

72. VIRG. Georg. iv. 208.

'Th' immortal line in sure succession reigns,
The fortune of the family remains,
And grandsires' grandsons the long list contains.'

(Dryden).

73. VIRG. Æn. i. 328.

'O Goddess! for no less you seem.'

74. VIRG. Æn. iv. 88.

'The works unfinish'd and neglected lie.'

75. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 23.

'All fortune fitted Aristippus well.'

(Creech).

76. HOR. 1 Ep. viii. 17.

'As you your fortune bear, we will bear you.'

(Creech).

77. MART. Epig. i. 87.

'What correspondence can I hold with you,
Who are so near, and yet so distant too?'

78. 'Could we but call so great a genius ours!'

79. HOR. 1 Ep. xvi. 52.

'The good, for virtue's sake, abhor to sin.'

(Creech).

80. HOR. 1 Ep. ix. 27.

'Those that beyond sea go, will sadly find,
They change their climate only, not their mind.'

(Creech).

81. STAT. Theb. ii. 128.

'As when the tigress hears the hunter's din,
Dark angry spots distain her glossy skin.'

82. JUV. Sat iii. 33.

'His fortunes ruin'd, and himself a slave.'

83. VIRG. Æn. i. 464.

'And with the shadowy picture feeds his mind.'

84. VIRG. Æn. ii. 6.

'Who can such woes relate, without a tear,
As stern Ulysses must have wept to hear?'

85. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 319.

'--When the sentiments and manners please,
And all the characters are wrought with ease,
Your tale, though void of beauty, force, and art,
More strongly shall delight, and warm the heart;
Than where a lifeless pomp of verse appears,
And with sonorous trifles charms our ears.'

(Francis).

86. OVID, Met. ii. 447.

'How in the looks does conscious guilt appear!'

(Addison).

87. VIRG. Ecl. ii. 17.

'Trust not too much to an enchanting face.'

(Dryden).

88. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 16.

'What will not masters do, when servants thus presume?'

89. PERS. Sat. v. 64.

PERS. From thee both old and young with profit learn
The bounds of good and evil to discern.

CORN. Unhappy he, who does this work adjourn,
And to to-morrow would the search delay:
His lazy morrow will be like to-day.

PERS. But is one day of ease too much to borrow?

CORN. Yes, sure; for yesterday was once to-morrow:
That yesterday is gone, and nothing gain'd;
And all thy fruitless days will thus be drain'd,
For thou hast more to-morrows yet to ask,
And wilt be ever to begin thy task;
Who, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, are curst,
Still to be near, but ne'er to reach the first.

(Dryden).

90. VIRG. Georg. iii. 90.

'In all the rage of impotent desire,
They feel a quenchless flame, a fruitless fire.'

91. VIRG. Georg. iii. 244.

'--They rush into the flame;
For love is lord of all, and is in all the same.'

(Dryden).

92. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 61. _Imitated_.

'--What would you have me do,
When out of twenty I can please not two?--
One likes the pheasant's wing, and one the leg;
The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg;
Hard task, to hit the palate of such guests.'

(Pope).

93. HOR. 1 Od. xi. 6.

'Thy lengthen'd hopes with prudence bound
Proportion'd to the flying hour:
While thus we talk in careless ease,
The envious moments wing their flight;
Instant the fleeting pleasure seize,
Nor trust to-morrow's doubtful light.'

(Francis).

94. MART. Epig. xxiii. 10.

'The present joys of life we doubly taste,
By looking back with pleasure to the past.'

95. SENECA, Trag.

'Light sorrows loose the tongue, but great enchain.'

(P.)

96. HOR. 2 Sat. vii. 2.

'--The faithful servant, and the true.'

(Creech).

97. VIRG. Æn. vi. 436.

'They prodigally threw their lives away.'

98. JUV. Sat. vi. 500.

'So studiously their persons they adorn.'

99. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 63.

'You know to fix the bounds of right and wrong.'

100. HOR. 1 Sat. v. 44.

'The greatest blessing is a pleasant friend.'

101. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 5. _Imitated_.

'Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of generous toils endured,
The Gaul subdued, or property secured,
Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
Or laws established, and the world reform'd:
Closed their long glories with a sigh to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind.'

(Pope).

102. PHÆDR. Fab. xiv. 3.

'The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the
better to thinking.'

103. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 240.

'Such all might hope to imitate with ease:
Yet while they strive the same success to gain,
Should find their labour and their hopes are vain.'

(Francis).

104. VIRG. Æn. i. 316.

'With such array Harpalyce bestrode
Her Thracian courser.'

(Dryden).

105. TER. Andr. Act i. Sc. I.

'I take to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to
any one thing.'

'Too much of anything is good for nothing.'

(Eng. Prov.)

106. HOR. 1 Od. xvii. 14.

'Here plenty's liberal horn shall pour
Of fruits for thee a copious show'r,
Rich honours of the quiet plain.'

107. PHÆDR. Epilog. i. 2.

'The Athenians erected a large statue to ®sop, and placed him, though
a slave, on a lasting pedestal: to show that the way to honour lies
open indifferently to all.'

108. PHÆDR. Fab. v. 2.

'Out of breath to no purpose, and very busy about nothing.'

109. HOR. 2 Sat. ii. 3.

'Of plain good sense, untutor'd in the schools.'

110. VIRG. Æn. ii. 755.

'All things are full of Horror and affright,
And dreadful ev'n the silence of the night.'

(Dryden).

111. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 45.

'To search for truth in academic groves.'

112. PYTHAG.

'First, in obedience to thy country's rites,
Worship th' immortal gods.'

113. VIRG. Æn. iv. 4.

'Her looks were deep imprinted in his heart.'

114. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 24.

'--The dread of nothing more
Than to be thought necessitous and poor.'

(Pooly).

115. JUV. Sat. x. 356.

'Pray for a sound mind in a sound body.'

116. VIRG. Georg. iii. 43.

'The echoing hills and chiding hounds invite.'

117. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 108.

'With voluntary dreams they cheat their minds.'

118. VIRG. Æn. iv. 73.

'--The fatal dart
Sticks in his side, and rankles in his heart.'

(Dryden).

119. VIRG. Ecl. i. 20.

'The city men call Rome, unskilful clown,
I thought resembled this our humble town.'

(Warton).

120. VIRG. Georg. i. 415.

'--I deem their breasts inspired
With a divine sagacity--'

121. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 66.

'--All things are full of Jove.'

122. PUBL. SYR. Frag.

'An agreeable companion upon the road is as good as a coach.'

123. HOR. 4 Od. iv. 33.

'Yet the best blood by learning is refined,
And virtue arms the solid mind;
Whilst vice will stain the noblest race,
And the paternal stamp efface.'

(Oldisworth).

124.

'A great book is a great evil.'

125. VIRG. Æn. vi. 832.

'This thirst of kindred blood, my sons, detest,
Nor turn your force against your country's breast.'

(Dryden).

126. VIRG. Æn. x. 108.

'Rutulians, Trojans, are the same to me.'

(Dryden).

127. PERS. Sat. i. 1.

'How much of emptiness we find in things!'

128. LUCAN, i. 98.

'--Harmonious discord.'

129. PERS. Sat. v. 71.

'Thou, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, art curst,
Still to be near, but ne'er to be the first.'

(Dryden).

130. VIRG. Æn. vii. 748.

'A plundering race, still eager to invade,
On spoil they live, and make of theft a trade.'

131. VIRG. Ecl. x. 63.

'Once more, ye woods, adieu.'

132. TULL.

'That man may be called impertinent, who considers not the
circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself
the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is
in.'

133. HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 1.

'Such was his worth, our loss is such,
We cannot love too well, or grieve too much.'

(Oldisworth).

134. OVID, Met. i. 521.

'And am the great physician call'd below.'

(Dryden).

135. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 9.

'Let brevity dispatch the rapid thought.'

136. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 112.

'A greater liar Parthia never bred.'

137. TULL. Epist.

'Even slaves were always at liberty to fear, rejoice, and grieve at
their own, rather than another's, pleasure.'

138. TULL.

'He uses unnecessary proofs in an indisputable point.'

139. TULL.

'True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like
flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.'

140. VIRG. Æn. iv. 285.

'This way and that the anxious mind is torn.'

141. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 187.

'Taste, that eternal wanderer, that flies
From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.'

(Pope).

142. HOR. 1 Od. xiii. 12.

'Whom love's unbroken bond unites.'

143. MARTIAL, Epig. lxx. 6.

'For life is only life, when blest with health.'

144. TER. Eun. Act iii. Sc. 5.

'You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am.'

145. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 29.

'Their folly pleads the privilege of wealth.'

146. TULL.

'No man was ever great without some degree of inspiration.'

147. TULL.

'Good delivery is a graceful management of the voice, countenance, and
gesture.'

148. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 212.

'Better one thorn pluck'd out, than all remain.'

149. CÆCIL. apud TULL.

'Who has it in her power to make men mad,
Or wise, or sick, or well: and who can choose
The object of her appetite at pleasure.'

150. JUV. Sat. iii. 152.

'What is the scorn of every wealthy fool,
And wit in rags is turn'd to ridicule.'

(Dryden).

151. TULL. de Fin.

'Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues will lose their
power.'

152. HOM. Il. 6, v. 146.

'Like leaves on trees the race of man is found.'

(Pope).

153. TULL. de Senect.

'Life, as well as all other things, hath its bounds assigned by
nature; and its conclusion, like the last act of a play, is old age,
the fatigue of which we ought to shun, especially when our appetites
are fully satisfied.'

154. JUV. Sat. ii. 83.

'No man e'er reach'd the heights of vice at first.'

(Tate).

155. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 451.

'These things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will prove of serious consequence.'

(Roscommon).

156. HOR. 2 Od. viii. 5.

'--But thou,
When once thou hast broke some tender vow,
All perjured, dost more charming grow!'

157. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 187. _Imitated_.

'--That directing power,
Who forms the genius in the natal hour:
That God of nature, who, within us still,
Inclines our action, not constrains our will.'

(Pope).

158. MARTIAL, xiii. 2.

'We know these things to be mere trifles.'

159. VIRG. Æn. ii. 604.

'The cloud, which, intercepting the clear light,
Hangs o'er thy eyes, and blunts thy mortal sight,
I will remove--'

160. HOR. 1 Sat. iv. 43.

'On him confer the Poet's sacred name,
Whose lofty voice declares the heavenly flame.'

161. VIRG. Georg. ii. 527.

'Himself, in rustic pomp, on holydays,
To rural powers a just oblation pays;
And on the green his careless limbs displays:
The hearth is in the midst: the herdsmen, round
The cheerful fire, provoke his health in goblets crown'd.
He calls on Bacchus, and propounds the prize,
The groom his fellow-groom at buts defies,
And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes:
Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil,
And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
Such was the life the frugal Sabines led;
So Remus and his brother king were bred,
From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose;
And this rude life our homely fathers chose;
Old Rome from such a race derived her birth,
The seat of empire, and the conquer'd earth.'

(Dryden).

162. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 126.

'Keep one consistent plan from end to end.'

163. ENN. apud TULLIUM.

'Say, will you thank me if I bring you rest,
And ease the torture of your troubled breast?'

164. VIRG. iv. Georg. 494.

'Then thus the bride: What fury seized on thee,
Unhappy man! to lose thyself and me?
And now farewell! involved in shades of night,
For ever I am ravish'd from thy sight:
In vain I reach my feeble hands to join
In sweet embraces, ah! no longer thine.'

(Dryden).

165. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 48.

'--If you would unheard-of things express,
Invent new words; we can indulge a muse,
Until the licence rise to an abuse.'

(Creech).

166. OVID, Met. xv. 871.

'--Which nor dreads the rage
Of tempests, fire, or war, or wasting age.'

(Welsted).

167. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 128. _Imitated_.

'There lived in Primo Georgii (they record)
A worthy member, no small fool, a lord;
Who, though the house was up, delighted sate,
Heard, noted, answer'd as in full debate;
In all but this, a man of sober life,
Fond of his friend, and civil to his wife;
Not quite a madman, though a pasty fell,
And much too wise to walk into a well.
Him the damn'd doctor and his friends immured;
They bled, they cupp'd, they purged, in short they cured,
Whereat the gentleman began to stare--
'My friends!' he cry'd: 'pox take you for your care!
That from a patriot of distinguish'd note,
Have bled and purged me to a simple vote.' '

(Pope).

168. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 128.

'Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art.'

(Pope).

169. TER. Andr. Act i. Sc. 1.

'His manner of life was this: to bear with everybody's humours; to
comply with the inclinations and pursuits of those he conversed with;
to contradict nobody; never to assume a superiority over others. This
is the ready way to gain applause without exciting envy.'

170. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1.

'In love are all these ills: suspicions, quarrels,
Wrongs, reconcilements, war, and peace again.'

(Coleman).

171. OVID, Met. vii. 826.

'Love is a credulous passion.'

172. PLATO apud TULL.

'As knowledge, without justice, ought to be called cunning, rather
than wisdom; so a mind prepared to meet danger, if excited by its own
eagerness, and not the public good, deserves the name of audacity,
rather than that of fortitude.'

173. OVID, Met. v. 215.

'Hence with those monstrous features, and, O! spare
That Gorgon's look and petrifying stare.'

(P.)

174. VIRG. Ecl. vii. 69.

'The whole debate in memory I retain,
When Thyrsis argued warmly, but in vain.'

(P.)

175. OVID, Rem. Am. v. 625.

'To save your house from neighb'ring fire is hard.'

(Tate).

176. LUCR. iv. 1155.

'A little, pretty, witty, charming she!'

177. JUV. Sat. xv. 140.

'Who can all sense of others' ills escape,
Is but a brute, at best, in human shape.'

(Tate).

178. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 133.

'Civil to his wife.'

(Pope).

179. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 341.

'Old age is only fond of moral truth,
Lectures too grave disgust aspiring youth;
But he who blends instruction with delight,
Wins every reader, nor in vain shall write.'

(P.)

180. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 14.

'The monarch's folly makes the people rue.'

(P.)

181. VIRG. Æn. ii. 145.

'Moved by these tears, we pity and protect.'

182. JUV. Sat. vi. 180.

'The bitter overbalances the sweet.'

183. HOM.

'Sometimes fair truth in fiction we disguise;
Sometimes present her naked to men's eyes.'

(Pope).

184. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 360.

'--Who labours long may be allowed sleep.'

185. VIRG. Æn. i. 15.

'And dwells such fury in celestial breasts?'

186. HOR. 3 Od. i. 38.

'High Heaven itself our impious rage assails.'

(P.)

187. HOR. 1 Od. v. 2.

'Ah wretched they! whom Pyrrha's smile
And unsuspected arts beguile.'

(Duncome).

188. TULL.

'It gives me pleasure to be praised by you, whom all men praise.'

189. VIRG. Æn. x. 824.

'An image of paternal tenderness.'

190. HOR. 2 Od. viii. 18.

'A slavery to former times unknown.'

191.

'--Deluding vision of the night.'

(Pope).

192. TER. Andr. Act i. Sc. 1.

'--All the world
With one accord said all good things, and praised
My happy fortunes, who possess a son
So good, so liberally disposed.'

(Colman).

193. VIRG. Georg. ii. 461.

'His lordship's palace view, whose portals proud
Each morning vomit forth a cringing crowd.'

(Warton, &c.)

194. HOR. 1 Od. xiii. 4.

'With jealous pangs my bosom swells.'

195. HESIOD.

'Fools not to know that half exceeds the whole,
How blest the sparing meal and temperate bowl!'

196. HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 30.

'True happiness is to no place confined,
But still is found in a contented mind.'

197. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 15.

'On trifles some are earnestly absurd;
You'll think the world depends on every word.
What! is not every mortal free to speak?
I'll give my reasons, though I break my neck!
And what's the question? If it shines or rains;
Whether 'tis twelve or fifteen miles to Staines.'

(Pitt).

198. HOR. 4 Od. iv. 50.

'We, like 'weak hinds,' the brinded wolf provoke,
And when retreat is victory,
Rush on, though sure to die.'

(Oldisworth).

199. OVID, Ep. iv. 10.

'Love bade me write.'

200. VIRG. Æn. vi. 823.

'The noblest motive is the public good.'

201. Incerti Autoris apud AUL. GELL.

'A man should be religious, not superstitious.'

202. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 25.

'Tho' ten times worse themselves, you'll frequent view
Those who with keenest rage will censure you.'

(P.)

203. OVID, Met. ii. 38.

'Illustrious parent! if I yet may claim
The name of son, O rescue me from shame;
My mother's truth confirm; all doubt remove
By tender pledges of a father's love.'

204. HOR. 1 Od. xix. 7.

'Her face too dazzling for the sight,
Her winning coyness fires my soul,
I feel a strange delight.'

205. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 25.

'Deluded by a seeming excellence.'

(Roscommon).

206. HOR. 3 Od. xvi. 21.

'They that do much themselves deny,
Receive more blessings from the sky.'

(Creech).

207. JUV. Sat. x. 1.

'Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue?
How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,
Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice.'

(Dryden, Johnson, &c.)

208. OVID, Ars Am. 1. i. 99.

'To be themselves a spectacle they come.'

209. SIMONIDES.

'Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.'

210. CIC. Tusc. Quæst.

'There is, I know not how, in minds a certain presage, as it were, of
a future existence; this has the deepest root, and is most
discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.'

211. PHÆDR. 1. 1. Prol.

'Let it be remembered that we sport in fabled stories.'

212. HOR. 2 Sat. vii. 92.

'--Loose thy neck from this ignoble chain,
And boldly say thou'rt free.'

(Creech).

213. VIRG. Æn. i. 608.

'A good intention.'

214. JUV. Sat. iii. 124.

'A long dependence in an hour is lost.'

(Dryden).

215. OVID, de Ponto, II. ix. 47.

'Ingenuous arts, where they an entrance find,
Soften the manners, and subdue the mind.'

216. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1.

'Oh brave! oh excellent! if you maintain it!
But if you try, and can't go through with spirit,
And finding you can't bear it, uninvited,
Your peace unmade, all of your own accord,
You come and swear you love, and can't endure it,
Good night! all's over! ruin'd! and undone!
She'll jilt you, when she sees you in her power.'

(Colman).

217. JUV. Sat. vi. 326.

'Then unrestrain'd by rules of decency,
Th' assembled females raise a general cry.'

218. HOR. Ep. xvii. 68.

'--Have a care
Of whom you talk, to whom, and what, and where.'

(Pooley).

219. OVID, Met. xiii. 141.

'These I scarce call our own.'

220. VIRG. Æn. xii. 228.

'A thousand rumours spreads.'

221. HOR. 3 Sat. I. 1. v. 6.

'From eggs, which first are set upon the board,
To apples ripe, with which it last is stored.'

222. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 183.

'Why, of two brothers, one his pleasure loves,
Prefers his sports to Herod's fragrant groves.'

(Creech).

223. PHÆDR. iii. i. 5.

'O sweet soul! how good must you have been heretofore, when your
remains are so delicious!'

224. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 23.

'Chain'd to her shining car, Fame draws along
With equal whirl the great and vulgar throng.'

225. JUV. Sat. x. 365.

'Prudence supplies the want of every good.'

226. HOR.

'A picture is a poem without words.'

227. THEOCRITUS.

'Wretch that I am! ah, whither shall I go?
Will you not hear me, nor regard my woe?
I'll strip, and throw me from yon rock so high,
Where Olpis sits to watch the scaly fry.
Should I be drown'd, or 'scape with life away,
If cured of love, you, tyrant, would be gay.'

228. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 69.

'Th' inquisitive will blab; from such refrain:
Their leaky ears no secret can retain.'

(Shard).

229. HOR. 4 Od. ix. 4.

'Nor Sappho's amorous flames decay;
Her living songs preserve their charming art,
Her verse still breathes the passions of her heart.'

(Francis).

230. TULL.

'Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their
fellow-creatures.'

231. MART. viii. 78.

'O modesty! O piety!'

232. SALLUST, Bel. Cat.

'By bestowing nothing he acquired glory.'

233. VIRG. Ecl. x. v. 60.

'As if by these my sufferings I could ease;
Or by my pains the god of love appease.'

(Dryden).

234. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 41.

'I wish this error in your friendship reign'd.'

(Creech).

235. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 81.

'Awes the tumultuous noises of the pit.'

(Roscommon).

236. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 398.

'With laws connubial tyrants to restrain.'

237. SENECA in Oedip.

'They that are dim of sight see truth by halves.'

238. PERSIUS, Sat. iv. 50.

'No more to flattering crowds thine ear incline,
Eager to drink the praise which is not thine.'

(Brewster).

239. VIRG. Æn. vi. 86.

'--Wars, horrid wars!'

(Dryden).

240. MART. Ep. i. 17.

'Of such materials, Sir, are books composed.'

241. VIRG. Æn. iv. 466.

'All sad she seems, forsaken, and alone;
And left to wander wide through paths unknown.'

(P.)

242. HOR. 2 Ep. i 168.

'To write on vulgar themes, is thought an easy task.'

243. TULL. Offic.

'You see, my son Marcus, virtue as if it were embodied, which if it
could be made the object of sight, would (as Plato says) excite in us
a wonderful love of wisdom.'

244. HOR. 2 Sat. vii. 101.

'A judge of painting you, a connoisseur.'

245. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 338.

'Fictions, to please, should wear the face of truth.'

246.

'No amorous hero ever gave thee birth,
Nor ever tender goddess brought thee forth:
Some rugged rock's hard entrails gave thee form,
And raging seas produced thee in a storm:
A soul well suiting thy tempestuous kind,
So rough thy manners, so untamed thy mind.'

(Pope).

247. HESIOD.

'Their untired lips a wordy torrent pour.'

248. TULL. Off. i. 16.

'It is a principal point of duty, to assist another most when he
stands most in need of assistance.'

249. Frag. Vet. Poet.

'Mirth out of season is a grievous ill.'

250. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 3.

'Yet hear what an unskilful friend can say:
As if a blind man should direct your way;
So I myself, though wanting to be taught,
May yet impart a hint that's worth your thought.'

251. VIRG. Æn. vi. 625.

'--A hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,
And throats of brass inspired with iron lungs.'

(Dryden).

252. VIRG. Æn. ii. 570.

'Exploring every place with curious eyes.'

253. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 76.

'I feel my honest indignation rise,
When with affected air a coxcomb cries,
The work I own has elegance and ease,
But sure no modern should presume to please.'

(Francis).

254. Frag. Vet. Poet.

'Virtuous love is honourable, but lust increaseth sorrow.'

255. HOR. 1 Ep. lib. 1. ver. 36. _Imitated_.

'Know there are rhymes, which (fresh and fresh apply'd)
Will cure the arrant'st puppy of his pride.'

(Pope).

256. HESIOD.

'Fame is an ill you may with ease obtain,
A sad oppression, to be borne with pain.'

257. STOBÆUS.

'No slumber seals the eye of Providence,
Present to every action we commence.'

258.

'Divide and rule.'

259. TULL.

'What is becoming is honourable, and what is honourable is becoming.'

260. HOR. 3 Ep. ii. 55.

'Years following years steal something every day,
At last they steal us from ourselves away.'

(Pope).

261. Frag. Vet. Poet.

'Wedlock's an ill men eagerly embrace.'

262. OVID, Trist. ii. 566. _Adapted_.

'My paper flows from no satiric vein,
Contains no poison, and conveys no pain.'

263. TREBONIUS apud TULL.

'I am glad that he whom I must have loved from duty, whatever he had
been, is such a one as I can love from inclination.'

264. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 103. _Adapted_.

'In public walks let who will shine or stray,
I'll silent steal through life in my own way.'

265. OVID, de Art. Am. iii. 7.

'But some exclaim: What frenzy rules your mind?
Would you increase the craft of womankind?
Teach them new wiles and arts? As well you may
Instruct a snake to bite, or wolf to prey.'

(Congreve).

266. TER. Eun. Act v. Sc. 4.

'This I conceive to be my master-piece, that I have discovered how
unexperienced youth may detect the artifices of bad women, and by
knowing them early, detest them for ever.'

267. PROPERT. El. 34, lib. 2, ver. 95.

'Give place, ye Roman and ye Grecian wits.'

268. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 29.

'--unfit
For lively sallies of corporeal wit.'

(Creech).

269. OVID, Ars Am. i. 241.

'Most rare is now our old simplicity.'

(Dryden).

270. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 262.

'For what's derided by the censuring crowd,
Is thought on more than what is just and good.'

(Dryden).

'There is a lust in man no power can tame,
Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame;
On eagle's wings invidious scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born, and die.'

(E. of Corke).

'Sooner we learn, and seldomer forget,
What critics scorn, than what they highly rate.'

('Hughes's Letters', vol. ii p 222.)

271. VIRG. Æn. iv. 701.

'Drawing a thousand colours from the light.'

(Dryden).

272. VIRG. Æn. i. 345.

'Great is the injury, and long the tale.'

273. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 156.

'Note well the manners.'

274. HOR. 1 Sat. ii. 37.

'All you who think the city ne'er can thrive
Till every cuckold-maker's flay'd alive,
Attend.'

(Pope).

275. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 300.

'A head, no hellebore can cure.'

276. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 42.

'Misconduct screen'd behind a specious name.'

277. OVID, Met. lib. iv. ver. 428.

'Receive instruction from an enemy.'

278. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 250.

'I rather choose a low and creeping style.'

279. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 316.

'He knows what best befits each character.'

280. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 35.

'To please the great is not the smallest praise.'

(Creech).

281. VIRG. Æn. iv. 64.

'Anxious the reeking entrails he consults.'

282. VIRG. Æn. viii. 580.

'Hopes and fears in equal balance laid.'

(Dryden).

283. PERS. Prolog. ver. 10.

'Necessity is the mother of invention.'

(English Proverbs).

284. VIRG. Ecl. vii. 17.

'Their mirth to share, I bid my business wait.'

285. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 227.

'But then they did not wrong themselves so much,
To make a god, a hero, or a king,
(Stript of his golden crown, and purple robe)
Descend to a mechanic dialect;
Nor (to avoid such meanness) soaring high,
With empty sound, and airy notions fly.'

(Roscommon).

286. TACIT. Ann. I. xiv. c. 21.

'Specious names are lent to cover vices.'

287. MENAND.

'Dear native land, how do the good and wise
Thy happy clime and countless blessings prize!'

288. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 10.

'Both fear alike.'

289. HOR. 1 Od. iv. 15.

'Life's span forbids us to extend our cares,
And stretch our hopes beyond our years.'

(Creech).

290. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 97.

'Forgets his swelling and gigantic words.'

(Roscommon).

291. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 351.

'But in a poem elegantly writ,
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake,
Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.'

(Roscommon).

292. TIBUL. 4 Eleg. ii. 8.

'Whate'er she does, where'er her steps she bends,
Grace on each action silently attends.'

293. Frag. Vet. Poet.

'The prudent still have fortune on their side.'

294. TULL. ad Herennium.

'The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have much reverence for
virtue.'

295. JUV. Sat. vi. 361.

'But womankind, that never knows a mean,
Down to the dregs their sinking fortunes drain:
Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear,
And think no pleasure can be bought too dear.'

(Dryden).

296. HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 42.

'Add weight to trifles.'

297. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 66.

'As perfect beauties somewhere have a mole.'

(Creech).

298. VIRG. Æn. iv. 373.

'Honour is nowhere safe.'

299. JUV. Sat. vi. 166.

'Some country girl, scarce to a curtsey bred,
Would I much rather than Cornelia wed;
If supercilious, haughty, proud, and vain,
She brought her father's triumphs in her train.
Away with all your Carthaginian state;
Let vanquish'd Hannibal without-doors wait,
Too burly and too big to pass my narrow gate.'

(Dryden).

300. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 5.

'--Another failing of the mind,
Greater than this, of quite a different kind.'

(Pooley).

301. HOR. 4 Od. xiii. 26.

'That all may laugh to see that glaring light,
Which lately shone so fierce and bright,
End in a stink at last, and vanish into night.'

(Anon).

302. VIRG. Æn. v. 343.

'Becoming sorrows, and a virtuous mind
More lovely in a beauteous form enshrined.'

303. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 363.

'--Some choose the clearest light,
And boldly challenge the most piercing eye.'

(Roscommon).

304. VIRG. Æn. iv. 2.

'A latent fire preys on his feverish veins.'

305. VIRG. Æn. ii. 521.

'These times want other aids.'

(Dryden).

306. JUV. Sat. vi. 177.

'What beauty, or what chastity, can bear
So great a price, if stately and severe
She still insults?'

(Dryden).

307. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 39.

'--Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.'

(Roscommon).

308. HOR. Od. 5. lib. ii. ver. 15.

'--Lalage will soon proclaim
Her love, nor blush to own her flame.'

(Creech).

309. VIRG. Æn. vi. ver. 264.

'Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods, who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state.'

(Dryden).

310. VIRG. Æn. i. 77.

'I'll tie the indissoluble marriage-knot.'

311. JUV. Sat. vi. 137.

'He sighs, adores, and courts her ev'ry hour:
Who wou'd not do as much for such a dower?'

(Dryden).

312. TULL.

'What duty, what praise, or what honour will he think worth enduring
bodily pain for, who has persuaded himself that pain is the chief
evil? Nay, to what ignominy, to what baseness will he not stoop, to
avoid pain, if he has determined it to be the chief evil?'

313. JUV. Sat. vii. 237.

'Bid him besides his daily pains employ,
To form the tender manners of the boy,
And work him, like a waxen babe, with art,
To perfect symmetry in ev'ry part.'

(Ch. Dryden).

314. HOR. 1 Od. xxiii, II.

'Attend thy mother's heels no more,
Now grown mature for man, and ripe for joy.'

(Creech).

315. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 191.

'Never presume to make a god appear,
But for a business worthy of a god.'

(Roscommon).

316. VIRG. Ecl. i. 28.

'Freedom, which came at length, though slow to come.'

(Dryden).

317. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 27.

'--Born to drink and eat.'

(Creech).

318. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 63.

'With different talents form'd, we variously excel.'

319. HOR. 1 Ep. i. 90.

'Say while they change on thus, what chains can bind
These varying forms, this Proteus of the mind?'

(Francis).

320. OVID, Met. vi. 428.

'Nor Hymen nor the Graces here preside,
Nor Juno to befriend the blooming bride;
But fiends with fun'ral brands the process led,
And furies waited at the genial bed.'

(Croxal).

321. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 99.

' 'Tis not enough a poem's finely writ;
It must affect and captivate the soul.'

322. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 110.

'Grief wrings her soul, and bends it down to earth.'

(Francis).

323. VIRG.

'Sometimes a man, sometimes a woman.'

324. PERS. Sat. ii. 61.

'O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found,
Flat minds, and ever grovelling on the ground!'

(Dryden).

325. OVID, Metam. iii. 432.

(From the fable of NARCISSUS.)

'What could, fond youth, this helpless passion move?
What kindled in thee this unpitied love?
Thy own warm blush within the water glows;
With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes;
Its empty being on thyself relies;
Step thou aside, and the frail charmer dies.'

(Addison).

326. HOR. Lib. iii. Od. xvi. 1.

'Of watchful dogs an odious ward
Right well one hapless virgin guard,
When in a tower of brass immured,
By mighty bars of steel secured,
Although by mortal rake-hells lewd
With all their midnight arts pursued,
Had not--'

(Francis), vol. ii. p. 77.

_Adapted._

'Be to her faults a little blind,
Be to her virtues very kind,
And clap your padlock on her mind.'

(Padlock).

327. VIRG. Æn. vii. 48.

'A larger scene of action is display'd.'

(Dryden).

328. PETRON. ARB.

'Delighted with unaffected plainness.'

328b. HOR. Epod. xvii. 24.

'Day chases night, and night the day,
But no relief to me convey.'

(Duncombe).

329. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 27.

'With Ancus, and with Numa, kings of Rome,
We must descend into the silent tomb.'

330. JUV. Sat. xiv. 48.

'To youth the greatest reverence is due.'

331. PERS. Sat. ii. 28.

'Holds out his foolish beard for thee to pluck.'

332. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 29.

'He cannot bear the raillery of the age.'

(Creech).

333. VIRG.

'He calls embattled deities to arms.'

334. CIC. de Gestu.

'You would have each of us be a kind of Roscius in his way; and you
have said that fastidious men are not so much pleased with what is
right, as disgusted at what is wrong.'

335. HOR. Ars Poet. 327.

'Keep Nature's great original in view,
And thence the living images pursue.'

(Francis).

336. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 80. _Imitated._

'One tragic sentence if I dare deride,
Which Betterton's grave action dignified,
Or well-mouth'd Booth with emphasis proclaims
(Tho' but, perhaps, a muster-roll of names),
How will our fathers rise up in a rage,
And swear, all shame is lost in George's age!
You'd think no fools disgraced the former reign,
Did not some grave examples yet remain,
Who scorn a lad should teach his father skill,
And, having once been wrong, will be so still.'

(Pope).

337. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 63.

'The jockey trains the young and tender horse,
While yet soft-mouth'd, and breeds him to the course.'

(Creech).

338. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 18.

'Made up of nought but inconsistencies.'

339. VIRG. Ecl. vi. 33.

'He sung the secret seeds of nature's frame,
How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame,
Fell through the mighty void, and in their fall,
Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
The tender soil then stiff'ning by degrees,
Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas,
The earth and ocean various forms disclose,
And a new sun to the new world arose.'

(Dryden).

340. VIRG. Æn. iv. 10.

'What chief is this that visits us from far,
Whose gallant mien bespeaks him train'd to war?'

341. VIRG. Æn. i. 206.

'Resume your courage and dismiss your fear.'

(Dryden).

342. TULL.

'Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them
no offence.'

343. OVID, Metam. xv. 165.

'--All things are but alter'd; nothing dies;
And here and there th' unbody'd spirit flies,
By time, or force, or sickness dispossess'd,
And lodges, where it lights, in man or beast.'

(Dryden).

344. JUV. Sat. xi. 11.

'Such, whose sole bliss is eating; who can give
But that one brutal reason why they live?'

(Congreve).

345. OVID, Metam. i. 76.

'A creature of a more exalted kind
Was wanting yet, and then was man design'd;
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,
For empire form'd and fit to rule the rest.'

(Dryden).

346. TULL.

'I esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The
former is peculiar to great and distinguished persons; the latter
belongs to flatterers of the people, who tickle the levity of the
multitude with a kind of pleasure.'

347. LUCAN, lib. i. 8.

'What blind, detested fury, could afford
Such horrid licence to the barb'rous sword!'

348. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 13.

'To shun detraction, would'st thou virtue fly?'

349. LUCAN, i. 454.

'Thrice happy they beneath their northern skies,
Who that worst fear, the fear of death, despise!
Hence they no cares for this frail being feel,
But rush undaunted on the pointed steel,
Provoke approaching fate, and bravely scorn
To spare that life which must so soon return.'

(Rowe).

350. TULL.

'That elevation of mind which is displayed in dangers, if it wants
justice, and fights for its own conveniency, is vicious.'

351. VIRG. Æn. xii. 59.

'On thee the fortunes of our house depend.'

352. TULL.

'If we be made for honesty, either it is solely to be sought, or
certainly to be estimated much more highly than all other things.'

353. VIRG. Georg. iv. 6.

'Though low the subject, it deserves our pains.'

354. JUV. Sat. vi. 168.

'Their signal virtues hardly can be borne,
Dash'd as they are with supercilious scorn.'

355. OVID, Trist. ii. 563.

'I ne'er in gall dipp'd my envenom'd pen,
Nor branded the bold front of shameless men.'

356. JUV. Sat. x. 349.

--The gods will grant What their unerring wisdom sees they want; In goodness, as in greatness, they excel; Ah! that we loved ourselves but half as well!'

(Dryden).

357. VIRG., Æn. ii. 6.

'Who can relate such woes without a tear?'

358. HOR. 4 Od. xii. 1. ult.

' 'Tis joyous folly that unbends the mind.'

(Francis).

359. VIRG. Ecl. ii. 63.

'Lions the wolves, and wolves the kids pursue,
The kids sweet thyme,--and still I follow you.'

(Warton).

360. Hor. 1 Ep. xvii. 43.

'The man who all his wants conceals,
Gains more than he who all his wants reveals.'

(Duncome).

361. VIRG. Æn. vii. 514.

'The blast Tartarean spreads its notes around;
The house astonish'd trembles at the sound.'

362. HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 6.

'He praises wine; and we conclude from thence,
He liked his glass on his own evidence.'

363. VIRG. Æn. ii. 368.

'All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears,
And grisly Death in sundry shapes appears.'

(Dryden).

364. HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 29.

'Anxious through seas and land to search for rest,
Is but laborious idleness at best.'

(Francis).

365. VIRG. Georg. iii. 272.

'But most in spring: the kindly spring inspires
Reviving heat, and kindles genial fires.'

_Adapted_.

'Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year,
Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts.'

('Thomson's Spring', 160, _&c._)

366. HOR. 1 Od. xxii. 17.

'Set me where on some pathless plain
The swarthy Africans complain,
To see the chariot of the sun
So near the scorching country run:
The burning zone, the frozen isles,
Shall hear me sing of Celia's smiles;
All cold, but in her breast, I will despise,
And dare all heat, but that of Celia's eyes.'

(Roscommon).

367. JUV. Sat. i. 18.

'In mercy spare us, when we do our best
To make as much waste paper as the rest.'

368. EURIP. apud TULL.

'When first an infant draws the vital air,
Officious grief should welcome him to care:
But joy should life's concluding scene attend,
And mirth be kept to grace a dying friend.'

369. HOR. Ars Poet. 180.

'What we hear moves less than what we see.'

(Roscommon).

370.

'--All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.'

(Shakspeare).

371. JUV. Sat. x. 28.

'And shall the sage your approbation win,
Whose laughing features wore a constant grin?'

372. OVID, Met. i. 759.

'To hear an open slander is a curse;
But not to find an answer is a worse.'