(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.  AEn. 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., AEn. 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.  AEn. 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.  AEn. ii. 368.

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