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.

  ’ ’Tis reason now, ‘twas appetite before.’

[396. motto, but translation missing. text Ed.]

397.  OVID, Metam. xiii. 228.

  ‘Her grief inspired her then with eloquence.’

398.  HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 271.

  ’You’d be a fool
  With art and wisdom, and be mad by rule.’

(Creech).

399.  PERS.  Sat. iv. 23.

  ’None, none descends into himself to find
  The secret imperfections of his mind.’

(Dryden).

400.  VIRG.  Ecl. iii. 93.

  ‘There’s a snake in the grass.’

(English Proverbs).

401.  TER.  Eun.  Act i.  Sc. 1.

  ’It is the capricious state of love to be attended with injuries,
  suspicions, enmities, truces, quarrelling, and reconcilement.’

402.  HOR.  Ars Poet. 181.

  ‘Sent by the Spectator to himself.’

403.  HOR.  Ars Poet. v. 142.

  ‘Of many men he saw the manners.’

404.  VIRG.  Ecl. viii. 63.

  ‘With different talents form’d, we variously excel.’

405.  HOM.

  ’With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends;
  The paaeans lengthen’d till the sun descends: 
  The Greeks restored, the grateful notes prolong;
  Apollo listens, and approves the song.’

(Pope).

406.  TULL.

’These studies nourish youth; delight old age; are the ornament of prosperity, the solacement and the refuge of adversity; they are delectable at home, and not burdensome abroad, they gladden us at nights, and on our journeys, and in the country.’

407.  OVID, Met. xiii. 127.

  ‘Eloquent words a graceful manner want.’

408.  TULL. de Finibus.

  ’The affections of the heart ought not to be too much indulged, nor
  servilely depressed.’

409.  LUCR. i. 933.

  ‘To grace each subject with enlivening wit.’

410.  TER.  Eun.  Act v.  Sc. 4.

’When they are abroad, nothing so clean and nicely dressed, and when at supper with a gallant, they do but piddle, and pick the choicest bits:  but to see their nastiness and poverty at home, their gluttony, and how they devour black crusts dipped in yesterday’s broth, is a perfect antidote against wenching.’

411.  LUCR. i. 925.

  ’In wild unclear’d, to Muses a retreat,
  O’er ground untrod before, I devious roam,
  And deep enamour’d into latent springs
  Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads.’

412.  MART.  Ep. iv. 83.

  ‘The work, divided aptly, shorter grows.’

413.  OVID, Met. ix. 207.

  ‘The cause is secret, but the effect is known.’

(Addison).

414.  HOR.  Ars Poet. v. 410.

  ‘But mutually they need each other’s help.’

(Roscommon).

415.  VIRG.  Georg. ii. 155.

  ’Witness our cities of illustrious name,
  Their costly labour, and stupendous frame.’

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