‘Similar, though not the same.’
544. TER. Adelph. Act v. Sc. 4.
’No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience; insomuch that we find ourselves really ignorant of what we thought we understood, and see cause to reject what we fancied our truest interest.’
545. VIRG. AEn. iv. 99.
’Let us in bonds of lasting peace
unite,
And celebrate the hymeneal rite.’
546. TULL.
’Everything should be fairly told,
that the buyer may not be ignorant
of anything which the seller knows.’
547. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 149.
’Suppose you had a wound, and one
that show’d
An herb, which you apply’d, but
found no good;
Would you be fond of this, increase your
pain,
And use the fruitless remedy again?’
(Creech).
548. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 68.
’There’s none but has some
fault, and he’s the best,
Most virtuous he, that’s spotted
with the least.’
(Creech).
549. JUV. Sat. iii. 1.
‘Tho’ grieved at the departure
of my friend,
His purpose of retiring I commend.’
550. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 138.
‘In what will all this ostentation end?’
(Roscommon).
551. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 400.
’So ancient is the pedigree of verse,
And so divine a poet’s function.’
(Roscommon).
552. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 13.
’For those are hated that excel
the rest,
Although, when dead, they are beloved
and blest.’
(Creech).
553. HOR. 1 Ep. xiv. 35.
’Once to be wild is no such foul
disgrace,
But ‘tis so still to run the frantic
race.’
(Creech).
554. VIRG. Georg. iii. 9.
’New ways I must attempt, my grovelling
name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to
fame.’
(Dryden).
555. PERS. Sat. iv. 51.
‘Lay the fictitious character aside.’
556. VIRG. AEn. ii. 471.
’So shines, renew’d in youth,
the crested snake,
Who slept the winter in a thorny brake;
And, casting off his slough when spring
returns,
Now looks aloft, and with new glory burns:
Restored with pois’nous herbs, his
ardent sides
Reflect the sun, and raised on spires
he rides;
High o’er the grass hissing he rolls
along,
And brandishes by fits his forky tongue.’
(Dryden).
557. VIRG. AEn. i. 665.
‘He fears the ambiguous race, and Tyrians double-tongued.’
558. HOR. 1 Sat. i. 1.