The Spectator

Chapter 428

"You will easily find a worse woman; a better the sun never shone upon."

528. Ovid, Met. ix. 165.

"With wonted fort.i.tude she bore the smart, And not a groan confess"d her burning heart."

(Gay).

529. HOR. Ars Poet. 92.

 

"Let everything have its due place."

(Roscommon).

530. HOR. 1 Od. x.x.xiii. 10.

"Thus Venus sports; the rich, the base, Unlike in fortune and in face, To disagreeing love provokes; When cruelly jocose, She ties the fatal noose, And binds unequals to the brazen yokes."

(Creech).

531. HOR. 1 Od. xii. 15.

"Who guides below, and rules above, The great Disposer, and the mighty King: Than he none greater, like him none That can be, is, or was; Supreme he singly fills the throne."

(Creech).

532. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 304.

"I play the whetstone; useless, and unfit To cut myself, I sharpen other"s wit."

(Creech).

533. PLAUT.

"Nay, says he, if one is too little, I will give you two; And if two will not satisfy you, I will add two more."

534. JUV. Sat. viii. 73.

"--We seldom find Much sense with an exalted fortune join"d."

(Stepney).

535. HOR. 1 Od. xi. 7.

"Cut short vain hope."

536. VIRG. aen. ix. 617.

"O! less than women in the shapes of men."

(Dryden).

537.

"For we are his offspring."

(Acts xvii. 28.)

538. HOR. 2 Sat. i. 1.

"To launch beyond all bounds."

539. QUae GENUS.

"Be they heteroc.l.i.tes."

540. VIRG. aen. vi. 143.

"A second is not wanting."

541. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 108.

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