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.

  ‘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.

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