And greatly falling with a falling state.
While Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
_Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato._
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.[336-1]
_The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298._
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
_The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 369._
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.[336-2]
_Epigram._
For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.[336-3]
_Imitation of Martial._
Who dared to love their country, and be poor.
_On his Grotto at Twickenham._
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.[336-4]
_Thoughts on Various Subjects._
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects._
Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!
_The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 1._
The distant Trojans never injur'd me.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 200._
Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 332._
Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,--
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684._
And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.[337-1]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 771._
Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ii. Line 970._
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,
But wise through time, and narrative with age,
In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,--
A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 199._
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 208._
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 293._
Plough the watery deep.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 357._
The day shall come, that great avenging day
Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay,
When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall,
And one prodigious ruin swallow all.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 196._
First in the fight and every graceful deed.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 295._
The first in banquets, but the last in fight.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 401._
Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 451._
With all its beauteous honours on its head.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 557._
A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 16._
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,--
Such men as live in these degenerate days.[337-2]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 371._
Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999._
He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 18._
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,--
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;[338-1]
Another race the following spring supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181._
Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 330._
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350._
'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 427._
The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 467._
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see
My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 544._
Andromache! my soul's far better part.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 624._
He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 143._
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 364._
I war not with the dead.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 485._
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn,
Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 1._
As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,--
So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest
Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 371._
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.[338-2]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 412._
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold:
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of a day.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 524._
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 535._
Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd,
Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 628._
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 725._
To labour is the lot of man below;
And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 78._
Content to follow when we lead the way.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 141._
He serves me most who serves his country best.[339-1]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 201._
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 293._
The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xi. Line 394._
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 283._
The life which others pay let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 393._
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106._
The best of things beyond their measure cloy.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 795._
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 170._
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251._
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 157._
And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 583._
Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 852._
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.[340-1]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xvi. Line 267._
Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 730._
The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 756._
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 758._
Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train,
Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103._
I live an idle burden to the ground.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 134._
Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 303._
Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,--
For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 319._
Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 127._
The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair.[340-2]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 278._
'T is fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 290._
Our business in the field of fight
Is not to question, but to prove our might.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 304._
A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.[341-1]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337._
The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 85._
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 100._
This, this is misery! the last, the worst
That man can feel.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 106._
No season now for calm familiar talk.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 169._
Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 271._
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 418._
Forever honour'd, and forever mourn'd.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 422._
Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd he lies![341-2]
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 484._
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro
In all the raging impotence of woe.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 526._
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 543._
'T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 122._
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 368._
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,[341-3]
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 383._
A green old age,[341-4] unconscious of decays,
That proves the hero born in better days.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 929._
Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood,--
The source of evil one, and one of good.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 663._
The mildest manners with the bravest mind.
_The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 963._
Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 207._
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 312._
Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 315._
For never, never, wicked man was wise.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 320._
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 25._
The lot of man,--to suffer and to die.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 117._
A faultless body and a blameless mind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 138._
The long historian of my country's woes.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 142._
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 285._
When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn,
With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 516._
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 118._
Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 229._
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love:
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 241._
The glory of a firm, capacious mind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 262._
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 372._
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host,
Is in the common mass of matter lost.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 397._
O thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 627._
Forget the brother, and resume the man.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 732._
Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 917._
The people's parent, he protected all.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 921._
The big round tear stands trembling in her eye.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 936._
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 1092._
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me,
For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book v. Line 572._
The bank he press'd, and gently kiss'd the ground.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book v. Line 596._
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 22._
Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 229._
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 247._
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 67._
To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest;
In virtue rich; in blessing others, blest.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 95._
Oh, pity human woe!
'T is what the happy to the unhappy owe.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 198._
Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 210._
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 263._
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 379._
And every eye
Gaz'd, as before some brother of the sky.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 17._
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 192._
And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky.[344-1]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 366._
Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 367._
A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 432._
Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed
The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,--
A theme of future song!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 631._
Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 20._
Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 28._
Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 106._
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 318._
Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 29._
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 46._
No more was seen the human form divine.[344-2]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 278._
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 308._
Let him, oraculous, the end, the way,
The turns of all thy future fate display.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 642._
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 662._
Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 48._
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 153._
Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.[344-3]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 387._
The first in glory, as the first in place.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 441._
Soft as some song divine thy story flows.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 458._
Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.[345-1]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 531._
What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 541._
But sure the eye of time beholds no name
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 591._
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 722._
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 736._
There in the bright assemblies of the skies.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 745._
Gloomy as night he stands.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 749._
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xii. Line 31._
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.[345-2]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xii. Line 538._
He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear
His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 1._
His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 38._
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last and hardest conquest of the mind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 353._
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 375._
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 65._
The sex is ever to a soldier kind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 246._
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 410._
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 520._
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme,
And both the golden mean alike condemn.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 79._
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,--
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.[346-1]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 83._
For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 429._
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 433._
And taste
The melancholy joy of evils past:
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 434._
For love deceives the best of womankind.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 463._
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvi. Line 448._
Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 392._
In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 505._
Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise
Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.[346-2]
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 576._
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 26._
Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 269._
A winy vapour melting in a tear.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 143._
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,
Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 383._
The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 254._
Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 461._
Dogs, ye have had your day!
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 41._
For dear to gods and men is sacred song.
Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone,
The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 382._
So ends the bloody business of the day.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 516._
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 19._
The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 271._
And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.
_The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 557._
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed.[347-1]
_Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727._
This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew.[347-2]
FOOTNOTES:
[314-2] See Milton, page 223.
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
DU BARTAS: _Days and Weeks, third day._
[315-1] See Milton, page 242.
[315-2] Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always
disposing ourselves to be happy.--PASCAL: _Thoughts, chap. v. 2._
[316-1] All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the
earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have
their influence upon me.--MONTAIGNE: _Apology for Raimond Sebond._
[316-2] See Sir John Davies, page 176.
[316-3] See Dryden, page 267.
[316-4] There is no great and no small.--EMERSON: _Epigraph to
History._
[316-5] See Dryden, page 276.
[317-1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme
(The true science and the true study of man is man).--CHARRON: _De
la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1._
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--PLATO:
_Phædrus._
[317-2] What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a
monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a
prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth,
depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the
glory and the shame of the universe.--PASCAL: _Thoughts, chap. x._
[317-3] See Dryden, page 269.
[318-1] Why may not a goose say thus? . . . there is nothing that
yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling
of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?--MONTAIGNE:
_Apology for Raimond Sebond._
[318-2] See Cowley, page 260.
[319-1] See Fletcher, page 183.
[319-2] See Cowley, page 262.
[319-3]
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
SAVAGE: _Character of Foster._
[320-1] See Bolingbroke, page 304.
[320-2] See Dryden, page 273.
[320-3] 'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.--COLLINS:
_Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5._
[321-1] Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis (All things
change, and we change with them).--MATTHAIS BORBONIUS: _Deliciæ
Poetarum Germanorum, i. 685._
[321-2] See Prior, page 287.
[322-1] See Milton, page 231.
[322-2] See Brown, page 287.
[323-1] See Suckling, page 256.
[323-2] Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer
sometimes nods).--HORACE: _De Arte Poetica, 359._
[323-3] See Bacon, page 166.
[323-4] See Suckling, page 257.
[325-1]
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,
To step aside is human.
BURNS: _Address to the Unco Guid._
[325-2] See Shakespeare, page 96.
[325-3] Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the
unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This
Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared
for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's "Abrégé
Chronologique," and in the preface to the third edition of this
work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of
this couplet.
[326-1] See Burton, page 191.
[327-1] See Bacon, page 168.
[327-2] See Denham, page 258.
[327-3]
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
P. FLETCHER: _The Purple Island, canto vii._
[327-4] See page 336.
[327-5] See Sternhold, page 23.
[328-1] See Spenser, page 27.
[328-2] This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey,
book xv. line 83, with "parting" instead of "going."
[329-1] See Ben Jonson, page 177.
[329-2] See Dryden, page 267.
[329-3]
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
GOLDSMITH: _The Traveller, line 137._
[329-4] A breath can make them as a breath has made.--GOLDSMITH:
_The Deserted Village, line 54._
[329-5] See Sidney, page 34.
[330-1] This line is from a poem entitled "To the Celebrated
Beauties of the British Court," given in Bell's "Fugitive Poetry,"
vol. iii. p. 118.
The following epigram is from "The Grove," London, 1721:--
When one good line did much my wonder raise,
In Br--st's works, I stood resolved to praise,
And had, but that the modest author cries,
"Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise."
_On a certain line of Mr. Br----, Author of a Copy of Verses
called the British Beauties._
[330-2] See Cibber, page 297.
[331-1] Another, yet the same.--TICKELL: _From a Lady in England._
JOHNSON: _Life of Dryden._ DARWIN: _Botanic Garden, part i. canto
iv. line 380._ WORDSWORTH: _The Excursion, Book ix._ SCOTT: _The
Abbot, chap. i._ HORACE: _carmen secundum, line 10._
[331-2]
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
SAVAGE: _Character of Foster._
[331-3] See Shakespeare, page 131.
[331-4] See Addison, page 299.
[331-5] See Shakespeare, page 93.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits;
but I find he is only a wit among lords.--JOHNSON (_Boswell's
Life_): _vol. ii. ch. i._
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.--COWPER: _Conversation,
line 298._