The Spectator Volume Iii Part 135

217. JUV. Sat. vi. 326.

'Then unrestrain'd by rules of decency, Th' a.s.sembled females raise a general cry.'

218. HOR. Ep. xvii. 68.

'--Have a care Of whom you talk, to whom, and what, and where.'

(Pooley).

 

219. OVID, Met. xiii. 141.

'These I scarce call our own.'

220. VIRG. aen. xii. 228.

'A thousand rumours spreads.'

221. HOR. 3 Sat. I. 1. v. 6.

'From eggs, which first are set upon the board, To apples ripe, with which it last is stored.'

222. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 183.

'Why, of two brothers, one his pleasure loves, Prefers his sports to Herod's fragrant groves.'

(Creech).

223. PHaeDR. iii. i. 5.

'O sweet soul! how good must you have been heretofore, when your remains are so delicious!'

224. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 23.

'Chain'd to her s.h.i.+ning car, Fame draws along With equal whirl the great and vulgar throng.'

225. JUV. Sat. x. 365.

'Prudence supplies the want of every good.'

226. HOR.

'A picture is a poem without words.'

227. THEOCRITUS.

'Wretch that I am! ah, whither shall I go?

Will you not hear me, nor regard my woe?

I'll strip, and throw me from yon rock so high, Where Olpis sits to watch the scaly fry.

Should I be drown'd, or 'scape with life away, If cured of love, you, tyrant, would be gay.'

228. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 69.

'Th' inquisitive will blab; from such refrain: Their leaky ears no secret can retain.'

(Shard).

229. HOR. 4 Od. ix. 4.

'Nor Sappho's amorous flames decay; Her living songs preserve their charming art, Her verse still breathes the pa.s.sions of her heart.'

(Francis).

230. TULL.

'Men resemble the G.o.ds in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow-creatures.'

231. MART. viii. 78.

'O modesty! O piety!'