Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate Virgil, Eneid. Line 1. Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book xv. Line 155. She knows her man, and when you rant and swear Persius. Satire v. Line 246. Look round the habitable world, how few Juvenal. Satire x. Our souls sit close and silently within, Mariage à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1. Thespis, the first professor of our art, Prologue to Lee's Sophonisha. Errors like straws upon the surface flow; All for Love. Prologue. Men are but children of a larger growth. Act iv. Sc. 1. The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2. 1 And from that luckless hour, my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair. Bland's Anthology, p. 20, ed. 1813. And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto ii. Line 27. Those curious locks so aptly twined, Carew, Think not 'cause men flattering say. 2 Compare Sir John Davies. Page 145. 3 You have been often told and have heard that ignorance is the mother of devotion. — Jeremy Taylor, Letter to a Person newly But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; The Tempest. Prologue. I am as free as nature first made man, The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1. Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.1 Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew? Part ii. Act iii. Sc. 1. Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped Epilogue. When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. What the first sprightly running could not give. Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1. converted. 1657. This is said to have been the utterance of Dr. Cole, at a convocation of Westminster. 1 Quos læserunt et oderunt.-Seneca, De Ira, Lib. ii. c. 33. Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris. — Tacitus, Agricola, 42. 4. The offender never pardons. - Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 2 There are not eight finer lines in Lucretius. - Macaulay, Hist. of England, Ch. xviii. All delays are dangerous in war. Tyrannic Love. Act 1. Sc. 1. Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Act iv. Sc. 1. Whatever is, is in its causes just.1 Edipus. Act iii. Sc. 1. His hair just grizzled, Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long; Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, Ibid. The wheels of weary life at last stood still. Act iv. Sc. 1. She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. Ibid. 1 Whatever is, is right. -Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. i. Line 289. 2 There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. -Cowper, The Timepiece, Line 285. 3 Lords of humankind. - Goldsmith, The Traveller, Line 327. 4 Adore the hand that gives the blow. Pomfret, Verses to his Friend. 5 Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest. Euripides, Hippolytus, 438. 6 As certain as a gun. - Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iii. The first edition of Butler reads, 'sure as a gun.' Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, The Spanish Friar. Act v. Sc. 2. This is the porcelain clay of humankind.1 Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Ibid. A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow. Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. 1. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. The true Amphitryon.* Act iii. Sc. 1. Act iv. Sc. 1. The spectacles of books. Essay on Dramatic Poetry. EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633-1684. Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. Essay on Translated Verse. And choose an author as you choose a friend. Line 87. Line 96. Line 113. Line 184. My God, my Father, and my Friend, 1 The precious porcelain of human clay. Translation of Dies Ira. Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv. St. 11. 2 Give ample room and verge enough. 4 Le véritable Amphitryon Blair, The Grave, Line 58. Molière, Amphitryon, Acte iii. Sc. 5. 232 MARVELL.-TILLOTSON. ANDREW MARVELL. 1620-1678. Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night. And all the way, to guide their chime, In busy companies of men. Annihilating all that's made Bermudas. Ibid. The Garden. (Translated.) To a green thought in a green shade. The world in all doth but two nations bear, Ibid. To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate. The Character of Holland. JOHN TILLOTSON. 1630-1694. If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.1 Sermon 93. 1712. 1 Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudroit l'inventer.-Voltaire (16941778), À l'Auteur du Livre des trois Imposteurs, Epit. cxi. |