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.

(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.  AEn. 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.  PHAEDR. 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.’

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