The Spectator Volume Iii Part 127

'Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame, And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name, After a life of generous toils endured, The Gaul subdued, or property secured, Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd, Or laws established, and the world reform'd: Closed their long glories with a sigh to find Th' unwilling grat.i.tude of base mankind.'

(Pope).

102. PHaeDR. Fab. xiv. 3.

'The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.'

103. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 240.

 

'Such all might hope to imitate with ease: Yet while they strive the same success to gain, Should find their labour and their hopes are vain.'

(Francis).

104. VIRG. aen. i. 316.

'With such array Harpalyce bestrode Her Thracian courser.'

(Dryden).

105. TER. Andr. Act i. Sc. I.

'I take to be a princ.i.p.al rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.'

'Too much of anything is good for nothing.'

(Eng. Prov.)

106. HOR. 1 Od. xvii. 14.

'Here plenty's liberal horn shall pour Of fruits for thee a copious show'r, Rich honours of the quiet plain.'

107. PHaeDR. Epilog. i. 2.

'The Athenians erected a large statue to sop, and placed him, though a slave, on a lasting pedestal: to show that the way to honour lies open indifferently to all.'

108. PHaeDR. Fab. v. 2.

'Out of breath to no purpose, and very busy about nothing.'

109. HOR. 2 Sat. ii. 3.

'Of plain good sense, untutor'd in the schools.'

110. VIRG. aen. ii. 755.

'All things are full of Horror and affright, And dreadful ev'n the silence of the night.'

(Dryden).

111. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 45.

'To search for truth in academic groves.'

112. PYTHAG.

'First, in obedience to thy country's rites, Wors.h.i.+p th' immortal G.o.ds.'

113. VIRG. aen. iv. 4.

'Her looks were deep imprinted in his heart.'

114. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 24.

'--The dread of nothing more Than to be thought necessitous and poor.'

(Pooly).

115. JUV. Sat. x. 356.

'Pray for a sound mind in a sound body.'