The Spectator Volume Iii Part 144

(Dryden).

342. TULL.

'Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them no offence.'

343. OVID, Metam. xv. 165.

'--All things are but alter'd; nothing dies; And here and there th' unbody'd spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossess'd, And lodges, where it lights, in man or beast.'

(Dryden).

344. JUV. Sat. xi. 11.

'Such, whose sole bliss is eating; who can give But that one brutal reason why they live?'

(Congreve).

345. OVID, Metam. i. 76.

'A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was man design'd; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd and fit to rule the rest.'

(Dryden).

346. TULL.

'I esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and distinguished persons; the latter belongs to flatterers of the people, who tickle the levity of the mult.i.tude with a kind of pleasure.'

347. LUCAN, lib. i. 8.

'What blind, detested fury, could afford Such horrid licence to the barb'rous sword!'

348. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 13.

'To shun detraction, would'st thou virtue fly?'

349. LUCAN, i. 454.

'Thrice happy they beneath their northern skies, Who that worst fear, the fear of death, despise!

Hence they no cares for this frail being feel, But rush undaunted on the pointed steel, Provoke approaching fate, and bravely scorn To spare that life which must so soon return.'

(Rowe).

350. TULL.

'That elevation of mind which is displayed in dangers, if it wants justice, and fights for its own conveniency, is vicious.'

351. VIRG. aen. xii. 59.

'On thee the fortunes of our house depend.'

352. TULL.

'If we be made for honesty, either it is solely to be sought, or certainly to be estimated much more highly than all other things.'

353. VIRG. Georg. iv. 6.

'Though low the subject, it deserves our pains.'

354. JUV. Sat. vi. 168.

'Their signal virtues hardly can be borne, Dash'd as they are with supercilious scorn.'

355. OVID, Trist. ii. 563.

'I ne'er in gall dipp'd my envenom'd pen, Nor branded the bold front of shameless men.'

356. JUV. Sat. x. 349.

--The G.o.ds will grant What their unerring wisdom sees they want; In goodness, as in greatness, they excel; Ah! that we loved ourselves but half as well!'