The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

(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.’

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