The Spectator Volume Iii Part 138

'Wedlock's an ill men eagerly embrace.'

262. OVID, Trist. ii. 566. _Adapted_.

'My paper flows from no satiric vein, Contains no poison, and conveys no pain.'

263. TREBONIUS apud TULL.

'I am glad that he whom I must have loved from duty, whatever he had been, is such a one as I can love from inclination.'

 

264. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 103. _Adapted_.

'In public walks let who will s.h.i.+ne or stray, I'll silent steal through life in my own way.'

265. OVID, de Art. Am. iii. 7.

'But some exclaim: What frenzy rules your mind?

Would you increase the craft of womankind?

Teach them new wiles and arts? As well you may Instruct a snake to bite, or wolf to prey.'

(Congreve).

266. TER. Eun. Act v. Sc. 4.

'This I conceive to be my master-piece, that I have discovered how unexperienced youth may detect the artifices of bad women, and by knowing them early, detest them for ever.'

267. PROPERT. El. 34, lib. 2, ver. 95.

'Give place, ye Roman and ye Grecian wits.'

268. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 29.

'--unfit For lively sallies of corporeal wit.'

(Creech).

269. OVID, Ars Am. i. 241.

'Most rare is now our old simplicity.'

(Dryden).

270. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 262.

'For what's derided by the censuring crowd, Is thought on more than what is just and good.'

(Dryden).

'There is a l.u.s.t in man no power can tame, Of loudly publis.h.i.+ng his neighbour's shame; On eagle's wings invidious scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born, and die.'

(E. of Corke).

'Sooner we learn, and seldomer forget, What critics scorn, than what they highly rate.'

('Hughes's Letters', vol. ii p 222.)

271. VIRG. aen. iv. 701.

'Drawing a thousand colours from the light.'

(Dryden).

272. VIRG. aen. i. 345.

'Great is the injury, and long the tale.'

273. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 156.

'Note well the manners.'

274. HOR. 1 Sat. ii. 37.