(Pope).
102. PHAEDR. 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. AEn. 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. PHAEDR. Epilog. i. 2.
’The Athenians erected a large statue
to (R)sop, and placed him, though
a slave, on a lasting pedestal: to
show that the way to honour lies
open indifferently to all.’
108. PHAEDR. 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. AEn. 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. AEn. 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. AEn. 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.’