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.

(Oldisworth).

124.

  ‘A great book is a great evil.’

125.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 832.

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

(Dryden).

126.  VIRG.  AEn. 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.  AEn. 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.  AEn. 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.’

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