The Spectator Volume Iii Part 154

'Nor has any one so bright a genius as to become ill.u.s.trious instantaneously, unless it fortunately meets with occasion and employment, with patronage too, and commendation.'

485. QUIN. CURT. 1. vii. c. 8.

'The strongest things are not so well established as to be out of danger from the weakest.'

486. HOR. 1 Sat. ii. 37. _Imitated_.

'All you who think the city ne'er can thrive, Till ev'ry cuckold-maker's flay'd alive, Attend--'

 

(Pope).

487. PETR.

'While sleep oppresses the tired limbs, the mind Plays without weight, and wantons unconfined.'

488. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 156.

'What doth it cost? Not much, upon my word.

How much, pray? Why, Two-pence. Two-pence, O Lord!'

(Creech).

489. HOM.

'The mighty force of ocean's troubled flood.'

490. HOR. 2 Od. xiv. 21.

'Thy house and pleasing wife.'

(Creech).

491. VIRG. aen. iii. 318.

'A just reverse of fortune on him waits.'

492. SENECA.

'Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.'

493. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 76.

'Commend not, till a man is throughly known: A rascal praised, you make his faults your own.'

(Anon.)

494. CICERO.

'What kind of philosophy is it to extol melancholy, the most detestable thing in nature?'

495. HOR. 4 Od. iv. 57.

'--Like an oak on some cold mountain brow, At every wound they sprout and grow: The axe and sword new vigour give, And by their ruins they revive.'

(Anon.)

496. TERENT. Heaut. Act i. Sc. 1.

'Your son ought to have shared in these things, because youth is best suited to the enjoyment of them.'

497. MENANDER.

'A cunning old fox this!'

498. VIRG. Georg. i. 514.

'Nor reins, nor curbs, nor cries, the horses fear, But force along the trembling charioteer.'

(Dryden).