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Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous; answer him, ye owls.
Book iv. Line 614.
E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm.
ODYSSEY.
Book ii. Line 315.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.
Book xiv. Line 410.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Book xv. Line 79.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
Book xv. Line 83.
True friends.h.i.+p's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
_Windsor forest_.
Thus, if small things we may with great compare.
_Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry_.
Chapter xi.
Ye G.o.ds! annihilate but s.p.a.ce and time, And make two lovers happy.
_Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt_.
Who ne'er knew joy but friends.h.i.+p might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
THOMAS TICKELL.
1686-1740.
_On the Death of Addison_. Line 45.
Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.
Line 79.
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
_Colin and Lucy_.
I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay, I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
JOHN GAY.
1688-1732.
_What D'ye Call 't_.
Act ii. Sc. 9.
So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
_Beggars' Opera_.
Act i. Sc. 1.
