The Spectator Volume Iii Part 150

(English Proverb).

429. HOR. 2 Od. ii. 19.

'From cheats of words the crowd she brings To real estimates of things.'

(Creech).

430. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 62.

'--The crowd replies, Go seek a stranger to believe thy lies.'

(Creech).

431. TULL.

'What is there in nature so dear to man as his own children?'

432. VIRG. Ecl. ix. 36.

'He gabbles like a goose amidst the swan-like quire.'

(Dryden).

433. MART. Epig. xiv. 183.

'To banish anxious thought and quiet pain, Read Homer's frogs, or my more trifling strain.'

434. VIRG. aen. xi. 659.

'So march'd the Thracian Amazons of old When Thermedon with b.l.o.o.d.y billows roll'd; Such troops as these in s.h.i.+ning arms were seen, When Theseus met in fight their maiden queen; Such to the field Penthesilea led, From the fierce virgin when the Grecians fled.

With such return'd triumphant from the war, Her maids with cries attend the lofty car; They clash with manly force their moony s.h.i.+elds; With female shouts resound the Phrygian fields.'

(Dryden).

435. OVID, Met. iv. 378.

'Both bodies in a single body mix, A single body with a double s.e.x.'

(Addison).

436. JUV. Sat. iii. 36.

'With thumbs bent back, they popularly kill.'

(Dryden).

437. TER. And. Act v. Sc. 4.

'Shall you escape with impunity; you who lay snares for young men of a liberal education, but unacquainted with the world, and by force of importunity and promises draw them in to marry harlots?'

438. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 62.

'--Curb thy soul, And check thy rage, which must be ruled or rule.'

(Creech).

439. OVID, Metam. xii. 57.

'Some tell what they have heard, or tales devise; Each fiction still improved with added lies.'

440. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 213.

'Learn to live well, or fairly make your will.'

(Pope).

441. HOR. 3 Od. iii. 7.

'Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.'

(Anon.)