Absalom and Achitophel continued.]

And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. Parti. Line 169.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.

Parti. Line 174.

And heaven had wanted one immortal song. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.1 Parti. Line 197.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's Parti. Line 238.

dream! 2

Behold him setting in his western skies,

The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.3

Parti. Line 268.

Than a successive title, long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

Parti. Line 301.

Not only hating David, but the king.

Parti. Line 512.

Who think too little, and who talk too much. Parti. Line 534.

1 Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land. From Knolles's History (under a portrait of Mustapha I.). 2 Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. - Joel ii. 28.

3

Like our shadows,

Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Young, Night Thoughts, v. 661.

[Absalom and Achitophel continued.

A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long.
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.1
Parti. Line 545.

So over-violent, or over-civil,

That every man with him was God or Devil.

Parti. Line 557.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.2

Part i. Line 645.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Parti. Line 868.

Beware the fury of a patient man.3

Parti. Line 1005.

Made still a blundering kind of melody;

Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and

thin,

Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.

Part ii. Line 413.

Part ii. Line 463.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

1 Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit.

Juvenal, Sat. iii. Line 76.

2 A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Hare, Guesses at Truth.

3 Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia. - Publius Syrus.

CYMON AND IPHIGENIA.

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

Line 84.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes,
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Line 107.

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence. Sex to the last.1

Line 367.

And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands: maintained at vast ex

pense,

In peace a charge, in war a weak defence;
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,
And ever, but in times of need, at hand.

Line 400.

Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Line 407.

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
Epistle xiii. Line 92.

And threatening France, plac'd like a painted

Jove,

Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.

1 And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence.

Pope, Elvisa to Abelard, Line 192.

Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took,
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste;
And long-inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124.

For truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.1

The Hind and Panther. Line 33.

And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

Ibid. Line 271.

But Shadwell never deviates into sense.

Mac Flecknoe. Line 20.

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

Ibid. Line 208.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.2

Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

The Cock and Fox. Line 452.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
Theodore and Honoria.

Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;

1 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated, needs but to be seen.

Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. ii. Line 217. 2 This proverb Dryden repeats in Amphitryon, Act i. Sc. 2. See Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 2. Perjuria ridet amantum

Jupiter. Tibullus, Lib. iii. El. 6.

The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,
The next in majesty, in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go;

To make a third, she join'd the former two.1

Under Mr. Milton's Picture.

A very merry, dancing, drinking,

Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

The Secular Masque. Line 40.

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. Epistle to Congreve. Line 19.

Be kind to my remains; and O defend,

Against your judgment, your departed friend!
Ibid. Line 72.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer,
From grave to light; from pleasant to severe.2
The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75.

Since heaven's eternal year is thine.

Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a

child.

Ibid. Line 70.

1 Græcia Mæonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem.

Selvaggi, Ad Joannem Miltonum.

2 Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer

From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv. Line 379. Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix légère Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au sévère. Boileau, L'Art Poétique, Chant 1er.

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Pope, Epitaph on Gay.