456. TULL.

'The man whose conduct is publicly arraigned, is not suffered even to be undone quietly.'

457. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 9.

'Seeming to promise something wondrous great.'

458. HOR.

'False modesty.'

459. HOR. 1 Ep. iv. 5.

'--Whate'er befits the wise and good'

(Creech).

460. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 25.

'Deluded by a seeming excellence.'

(Roscommon).

461. VIRG. Ecl. ix. 34.

'But I discern their flatt'ry from their praise.'

(Dryden).

462. HOR. 1 Sat. v. 44.

'Nothing so grateful as a pleasant friend.'

463. CLAUD.

'In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Though farther toil his tired limbs refuse.

The dreaming hunter still the chace pursues, The judge abed dispenses still the laws, And sleeps again o'er the unfinish'd cause.

The dozing racer hears his chariot roll, Smacks the vain whip, and shuns the fancied goal.

Me too the Muses, in the silent night, With wonted chimes of jingling verse delight.'

464. HOR. 2 Od. x. 5.

'The golden mean, as she's too nice to dwell Among the ruins of a filthy cell, So is her modesty withal as great, To baulk the envy of a princely seat.'

(Norris).

465. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 97.

'How you may glide with gentle ease Adown the current of your days; Nor vex'd by mean and low desires, Nor warm'd by wild ambitious fires; By hope alarm'd, depress'd by fear, For things but little worth your care.'

(Francis).

466. VIRG. aen. i. 409.

'And by her graceful walk the queen of love is known.'

(Dryden).

467. TIBULL. ad Messalam, 1 Eleg. iv. 24.

'Whate'er my Muse adventurous dares indite, Whether the niceness of thy piercing sight Applaud my lays, or censure what I write, To thee I sing, and hope to borrow fame, By adding to my page Messala's name.'

468. PLIN. Epist.

'He was an ingenious, pleasant fellow, and one who had a great deal of wit and satire, with an equal share of good humour.'

469. TULL.

'To detract anything from another, and for one man to multiply his own conveniences by the inconveniences of another, is more against nature than death, than poverty, than pain, and the other things which can befall the body, or external circ.u.mstances.'