The Spectator - Volume Iii Part 125
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Volume Iii Part 125

73. VIRG. aen. i. 328.

'O G.o.ddess! for no less you seem.'

74. VIRG. aen. iv. 88.

'The works unfinish'd and neglected lie.'

75. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 23.

'All fortune fitted Aristippus well.'

(Creech).

76. HOR. 1 Ep. viii. 17.

'As you your fortune bear, we will bear you.'

(Creech).

77. MART. Epig. i. 87.

'What correspondence can I hold with you, Who are so near, and yet so distant too?'

78. 'Could we but call so great a genius ours!'

79. HOR. 1 Ep. xvi. 52.

'The good, for virtue's sake, abhor to sin.'

(Creech).

80. HOR. 1 Ep. ix. 27.

'Those that beyond sea go, will sadly find, They change their climate only, not their mind.'

(Creech).

81. STAT. Theb. ii. 128.

'As when the tigress hears the hunter's din, Dark angry spots distain her glossy skin.'

82. JUV. Sat iii. 33.

'His fortunes ruin'd, and himself a slave.'

83. VIRG. aen. i. 464.

'And with the shadowy picture feeds his mind.'

84. VIRG. aen. ii. 6.

'Who can such woes relate, without a tear, As stern Ulysses must have wept to hear?'

85. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 319.

'--When the sentiments and manners please, And all the characters are wrought with ease, Your tale, though void of beauty, force, and art, More strongly shall delight, and warm the heart; Than where a lifeless pomp of verse appears, And with sonorous trifles charms our ears.'

(Francis).

86. OVID, Met. ii. 447.

'How in the looks does conscious guilt appear!'

(Addison).

87. VIRG. Ecl. ii. 17.

'Trust not too much to an enchanting face.'