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(Dryden).

416. LUCR. ix. 754.

’So far as what we see with our minds, bears similitude to what we see
with our eyes.’

417. HOR. 4 Od. iii. 1.

  ’He on whose birth the lyric queen
    Of numbers smiled, shall never grace
  The Isthmian gauntlet, or be seen
    First in the famed Olympic race.
  But him the streams that warbling flow
    Rich Tibur’s fertile meads along,
  And shady groves, his haunts shall know
    The master of th’ AEolian song.’

(Atterbury).

418. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 89.

‘The ragged thorn shall bear the fragrant rose.’

419. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 140.

‘The sweet delusion of a raptured mind.’

420. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 100.

‘And raise men’s passions to what height they will.’

(Roscommon).

421. OVID, Met. vi. 294.

’He sought fresh fountains in a foreign soil;
The pleasure lessen’d the attending toil.’

(Addison).

422. TULL. Epist.

’I have written this, not out of the abundance of leisure, but of my
affection towards you.’

423. HOR. 3 Od. xxvi. 1.

‘Once fit myself.’

424. HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 30.

’ ’Tis not the place disgust or pleasure brings:
From our own mind our satisfaction springs.’

425. HOR. 4 Od. vii. 9.

  ’The cold grows soft with western gales,
  The summer over spring prevails,
    But yields to autumn’s fruitful rain,
  As this to winter storms and hails;
    Each loss the hasting moon repairs again.’

(Sir W. Temple).

426. VIRG. AEn. iii. 56.

’O cursed hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold.’

(Dryden).

427. TULL.

’We should be as careful of our words as our actions; and as far from
speaking as from doing ill.’

428. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 417.

‘The devil take the hindmost.’

(English Proverb).

429. HOR. 2 Od. ii. 19.

’From cheats of words the crowd she brings
To real estimates of things.’

(Creech).