The Spectator - Volume Iii Part 128
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Volume Iii Part 128

116. VIRG. Georg. iii. 43.

'The echoing hills and chiding hounds invite.'

117. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 108.

'With voluntary dreams they cheat their minds.'

118. VIRG. aen. iv. 73.

'--The fatal dart Sticks in his side, and rankles in his heart.'

(Dryden).

119. VIRG. Ecl. i. 20.

'The city men call Rome, unskilful clown, I thought resembled this our humble town.'

(Warton).

120. VIRG. Georg. i. 415.

'--I deem their b.r.e.a.s.t.s inspired With a divine sagacity--'

121. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 66.

'--All things are full of Jove.'

122. PUBL. SYR. Frag.

'An agreeable companion upon the road is as good as a coach.'

123. HOR. 4 Od. iv. 33.

'Yet the best blood by learning is refined, And virtue arms the solid mind; Whilst vice will stain the n.o.blest race, And the paternal stamp efface.'

(Oldisworth).

124.

'A great book is a great evil.'

125. VIRG. aen. vi. 832.

'This thirst of kindred blood, my sons, detest, Nor turn your force against your country's breast.'

(Dryden).

126. VIRG. aen. x. 108.

'Rutulians, Trojans, are the same to me.'

(Dryden).

127. PERS. Sat. i. 1.

'How much of emptiness we find in things!'

128. LUCAN, i. 98.

'--Harmonious discord.'

129. PERS. Sat. v. 71.

'Thou, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, art curst, Still to be near, but ne'er to be the first.'

(Dryden).

130. VIRG. aen. vii. 748.