The Spectator Volume Iii Part 149

'But mutually they need each other's help.'

(Roscommon).

415. VIRG. Georg. ii. 155.

'Witness our cities of ill.u.s.trious name, Their costly labour, and stupendous frame.'

(Dryden).

 

416. LUCR. ix. 754.

'So far as what we see with our minds, bears similitude to what we see with our eyes.'

417. HOR. 4 Od. iii. 1.

'He on whose birth the lyric queen Of numbers smiled, shall never grace The Isthmian gauntlet, or be seen First in the famed Olympic race.

But him the streams that warbling flow Rich Tibur's fertile meads along, And shady groves, his haunts shall know The master of th' aeolian song.'

(Atterbury).

418. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 89.

'The ragged thorn shall bear the fragrant rose.'

419. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 140.

'The sweet delusion of a raptured mind.'

420. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 100.

'And raise men's pa.s.sions to what height they will.'

(Roscommon).

421. OVID, Met. vi. 294.

'He sought fresh fountains in a foreign soil; The pleasure lessen'd the attending toil.'

(Addison).

422. TULL. Epist.

'I have written this, not out of the abundance of leisure, but of my affection towards you.'

423. HOR. 3 Od. xxvi. 1.

'Once fit myself.'

424. HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 30.

' 'Tis not the place disgust or pleasure brings: From our own mind our satisfaction springs.'

425. HOR. 4 Od. vii. 9.

'The cold grows soft with western gales, The summer over spring prevails, But yields to autumn's fruitful rain, As this to winter storms and hails; Each loss the hasting moon repairs again.'

(Sir W. Temple).

426. VIRG. aen. iii. 56.

'O cursed hunger of pernicious gold!

What bands of faith can impious lucre hold.'

(Dryden).

427. TULL.

'We should be as careful of our words as our actions; and as far from speaking as from doing ill.'

428. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 417.

'The devil take the hindmost.'