469.  TULL.

’To detract anything from another, and for one man to multiply his own conveniences by the inconveniences of another, is more against nature than death, than poverty, than pain, and the other things which can befall the body, or external circumstances.’

470.  MART. 2 Epig. lxxxvi.

  ’ ’Tis folly only, and defect of sense,
  Turns trifles into things of consequence.’

471.  EURIPID.

  ‘The wise with hope support the pains of life.’

472.  VIRG.  AEn. iii. 660.

  ‘This only solace his hard fortune sends.’

(Dryden).

473.  HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 12.

  ’Suppose a man the coarsest gown should wear,
  No shoes, his forehead rough, his look severe,
  And ape great Cato in his form and dress;
  Must be his virtues and his mind express?’

(Creech).

474.  HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 6.

  ‘Rude, rustic, and inelegant.’

475.  TER.  Eun.  Act i.  Sc. 1.

  ’The thing that in itself has neither measure nor consideration,
  counsel cannot rule.’

476.  HOR.  Ars Poet. 41.

  ‘Method gives light.’

477.  HOR. 3 Od. iv. 5.

’—­Does airy fancy cheat My mind well pleased with the deceit?  I seem to hear, I seem to move, And wander through the happy grove, Where smooth springs flow, and murm’ring breeze, Wantons through the waving trees.’

(Creech).

478.  HOR.  Ars Poet. v. 72.

  ‘Fashion, sole arbitress of dress.’

479.  HOR.  Ars Poet. 398.

  ‘To regulate the matrimonial life.’

480.  HOR. 2 Sat. vii. 85.

  ’He, Sir, is proof to grandeur, pride, or pelf,
  And, greater still, he’s master of himself: 
  Not to and fro, by fears and factions hurl’d,
  But loose to all the interests of the world;
  And while the world turns round, entire and whole,
  He keeps the sacred tenor of his soul.’

(Pitt).

481.  HOR.  Sat. 1. vii. 19.

  ’Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
  And soundest casuists doubt like you and me?’

(Pope).

482.  LUCR. iii. 11.

  ’As from the sweetest flower the lab’ring bee
  Extracts her precious sweets.’

(Creech).

483.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 191.

  ’Never presume to make a god appear,
  But for a business worthy of a god.’

(Roscommon).

484.  PLIN.  Epist.

  ’Nor has any one so bright a genius as to become illustrious
  instantaneously, unless it fortunately meets with occasion and
  employment, with patronage too, and commendation.’

485.  QUIN.  CURT. 1. vii. c. 8.

  ’The strongest things are not so well established as to be out of
  danger from the weakest.’

486.  HOR. 1 Sat. ii. 37. Imitated.