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.

506.  MART. 4 Epig. xiii. 7.

  ’Perpetual harmony their bed attend,
  And Venus still the well-match’d pair befriend! 
  May she, when time has sunk him into years,
  Love her old man, and cherish his white hairs;
  Nor he perceive her charms through age decay,
  But think each happy sun his bridal day!’

507.  Juv.  Sat. ii. 46.

  ‘Preserved from shame by numbers on our side.’

508.  CORN.  NEPOS in Milt. c. 8.

  ’For all those are accounted and denominated tyrants, who exercise a
  perpetual power in that state which was before free.’

509.  TER.  Heaut.  Act iii.  Sc. 3.

  ‘Discharging the part of a good economist.’

510.  TER.  Eun.  Act i.  Sc. 1.

  ’If you are wise, add not to the troubles which attend the passion of
  love, and bear patiently those which are inseparable from it.’

511.  OVID, Ars Am. i. 175.

  ’—­Who could fail to find,
  In such a crowd a mistress to his mind?’

512.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 344.

  ‘Mixing together profit and delight.’

513.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 50.

  ‘When all the god came rushing on her soul.’

(Dryden).

514.  VIRG.  Georg. iii. 291.

  ’But the commanding Muse my chariot guides,
  Which o’er the dubious cliff securely rides: 
  And pleased I am no beaten road to take,
  But first the way to new discov’ries make.’

(Dryden).

515.  TER.  Heaut.  Act ii.  Sc. 3.

  ’I am ashamed and grieved, that I neglected his advice, who gave me
  the character of these creatures.’

516.  JUV.  Sat xv. 34.

’—­A grutch, time out of mind, begun, And mutually bequeath’d from sire to son:  Religious spite and pious spleen bred first, The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst:  Each calls the other’s god a senseless stock:  His own divine.’

(Tate).

517.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 878.

  ’Mirror of ancient faith! 
  Undaunted worth!  Inviolable truth!’

(Dryden).

518.  JUV.  Sat. viii. 76.

  ’ ’Tis poor relying on another’s fame,
  For, take the pillars but away, and all
  The superstructure must in ruins fall.’

(Stepney).

519.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 728.

  ’Hence men and beasts the breath of life obtain,
  And birds of air, and monsters of the main.’

(Dryden).

520.  HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 1.

  ’And who can grieve too much?  What time shall end
  Our mourning for so dear a friend?’

(Creech).

521.  P. ARB.

  ‘The real face returns, the counterfeit is lost.’

522.  TER.  Andr.  Act iv.  Sc. 2.

’I swear never to forsake her; no, though I were sure to make all men my enemies.  Her I desired; her I have obtained; our humours agree.  Perish all those who would separate us!  Death alone shall deprive me of her!’

523.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 376.

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