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.

  ’Restore, my charms,
  My lingering Daphnis to my longing arms.’

(Dryden).

604.  HOR. 1 Od. xi. 1.

  ’Ah, do not strive too much to know,
    My dear Leuconoe,
  What the kind gods design to do
    With me and thee.’

(Creech).

605.  VIRG.  Georg. ii. 51.

  ’They change their savage mind,
  Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature’s part,
  Obey the rules and discipline of art.’

(Dryden).

606.  VIRG.  Georg. i. 293.

  ’Mean time at home
  The good wife singing plies the various loom.’

607.  OVID, Ars Amor. i. 1.

  ’Now Ioe Paean sing, now wreaths prepare,
  And with repeated Ioes fill the air;
  The prey is fallen in my successful toils.’

(Anon.)

608.  OVID, Ars Amor. i. 633.

  ’Forgiving with a smile
  The perjuries that easy maids beguile.’

(Dryden).

609.  JUV.  Sat. i. 86.

  ‘The miscellaneous subjects of my book.’

610.  SENECA.

  ’Thus, when my fleeting days, at last,
  Unheeded, silently, are past,
  Calmly I shall resign my breath,
  In life unknown, forgot in death: 
  While he, o’ertaken unprepared,
  Finds death an evil to be fear’d,
  Who dies, to others too much known,
  A stranger to himself alone.’

611.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 366.

  ’Perfidious man! thy parent was a rock,
  And fierce Hyrcanian tigers gave thee suck.’

612.  VIRG.  AEn. xii. 529.

  ’Murranus, boasting of his blood, that springs
  From a long royal race of Latin kings,
  Is by the Trojan from his chariot thrown,
  Crush’d with the weight of an unwieldy stone.’

(Dryden).

613.  VIRG.  Georg. iv. 564.

  ‘Affecting studies of less noisy praise.’

(Dryden).

614.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 15.

  ’Were I not resolved against the yoke
  Of hapless marriage; never to be cursed
  With second love, so fatal was the first,
  To this one error I might yield again.’

(Dryden).

615.  HOR. 4 Od. ix. 47.

  ’Who spend their treasure freely, as ’twas given
  By the large bounty of indulgent Heaven: 
  Who in a fixt unalterable state
    Smile at the doubtful tide of fate,
  And scorn alike her friendship and her hate: 
    Who poison less than falsehood fear,
    Loath to purchase life so dear;
  But kindly for their friend embrace cold death,
  And seal their country’s love with their departing breath.’

(Stepney).

616.  MART.  Epig. i. 10.

  ‘A pretty fellow is but half a man.’

617.  PER.  Sat. i. 99.

  ’Their crooked horns the Mimallonian crew
  With blasts inspired; and Rassaris, who slew
  The scornful calf, with sword advanced on high,
  Made from his neck his haughty head to fly. 
  And Maenas, when, with ivy-bridles bound,
  She led the spotted lynx, then Evion rang around,
  Evion from woods and floods repeating Echo’s sound.’

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