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[328:1] See Spenser, page 27.
[328:2] This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey, book xv. line 83, with "parting" instead of "going."
[329:1] See Ben Jonson, page 177.
[329:2] See Dryden, page 267.
[329:3]
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137.
[329:4] A breath can make them as a breath has made.—Goldsmith: The Deserted Village, line 54.
[329:5] See Sidney, page 34.
[330:1] This line is from a poem entitled "To the Celebrated Beauties of the British Court," given in Bell's "Fugitive Poetry," vol. iii. p. 118.
The following epigram is from "The Grove," London, 1721:—
When one good line did much my wonder raise,
In Br—st's works, I stood resolved to praise,
And had, but that the modest author cries,
"Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise."
On a certain line of Mr. Br——, Author of a Copy of Verses called the British Beauties.
[330:2] See Cibber, page 297.
[331:1] Another, yet the same.—Tickell: From a Lady in England. Johnson: Life of Dryden. Darwin: Botanic Garden, part i. canto iv. line 380. Wordsworth: The Excursion, Book ix. Scott: The Abbot, chap. i. Horace: carmen secundum, line 10.
[331:2]
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Savage: Character of Foster.
[331:3] See Shakespeare, page 131.
[331:4] See Addison, page 299.
[331:5] See Shakespeare, page 93.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.—Johnson (Boswell's Life): vol. ii. ch. i.
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.—Cowper: Conversation, line 298.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.—Walter Scott: Life of Napoleon.
He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.—Macaulay: Review of Aikin's Life of Addison.
Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.—Macaulay: Review of Life and Writings of Sir William Temple.
Greswell in his "Memoirs of Politian" says that Sannazarius himself, inscribing to this lady [Cassandra Marchesia] an edition of his Italian Poems, terms her "delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima" (most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned).
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur (Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish).—Quintilian, x. 7. 22.
[333:1] See Dryden, page 273.
[333:2] Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1.
[333:3] See Addison, page 300.
[334:1]
"Tenez voilà," dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille,
Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais;
Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix."
Boileau: Epître ii. (à M. l' Abbé des Roches).
[334:2] See Spenser, page 29.
[335:1] See Ben Jonson, page 180.
[335:2] See page 346.
[335:3] See Dryden, page 270.
[336:1] See Chaucer, page 4. Herbert, page 206.
[336:2]
His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
Cowper: Conversation, line 303.
[336:3]
Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est
Vivere bis vita posse priore frui
(The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice).—Martial: x. 237.
See Cowley, page 262.
[336:4] From Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. v. p. 376; originally printed in Motte's "Miscellanies," 1727. In the edition of 1736 Pope says, "I must own that the prose part (the Thought on Various Subjects), at the end of the second volume, was wholly mine. January, 1734."
[337:1] The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii. line 366.
[337:2]
A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
Book xx. line 337.
[338:1] As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow.—Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18.
[338:2] The same line, with "soul" for "heart," occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book xiv. line 181.
[339:1] He serves his party best who serves the country best.—Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.
[340:1] A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.—Diogenes Laertius: On Aristotle.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Bellinghausen: Ingomar the Barbarian, act ii.
[340:2] Divinely fair.—Tennyson: A Dream of Fair Women, xxii.
[341:1] See page 337.
[341:2] Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.—Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.—Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 179.
[341:3] See Middleton, page 172.
[341:4] See Dryden, page 276.
[344:1] See page 337.
[344:2] Human face divine.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book iii. line 44.
[344:3] Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.—Ovid: Metamorphoses i.
[345:1] See Otway, page 280.
[345:2] See Shakespeare, page 79.
[346:1] See page 328.
[346:2] Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.—Hebrews xiii. 2.
[347:1] Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x. page 184).
[347:2] On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." . . . Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,—
"This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew!"
It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne.—Biographia Dramatica, vol. i. part ii. p. 469.
JOHN GAY. 1688-1732.'T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,
A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclin'd.
The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.
[348]
So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.[348:1]
The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9.
'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1.
Over the hills and far away.[348:2]
The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1.
If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all ranged,—a terrible show!
The Beggar's Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?[348:3]
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.
Where yet was ever found a mother
Who 'd give her booby for another?
Fables. Part i. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy.
[349]
No author ever spar'd a brother.
Fables. The Elephant and the Bookseller.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.
Fables. Part i. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody.
In ev'ry age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.[349:1]
Fables. Part i. The Rat-catcher and Cats.
Is there no hope? the sick man said;
The silent doctor shook his head.
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel.
While there is life there 's hope, he cried.[349:2]
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel.
Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Fables. Part i. The Mastiffs.
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.[349:3]
Fables. Part i. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven.
And when a lady 's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
Fables. Part i. The Hare and many Friends.
Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honour shall be mine.[349:4]
Fables. Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds.
[350]
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
Fables. Part ii. The Squire and his Cur.
Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I know it.
My own Epitaph.
[348:1] The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a "quart d'heure de Rabelais,"—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.—Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13.
[348:2] O'er the hills and far away.—D'Urfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723).
[348:3] "Midnight oil,"—a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.
[349:1] Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.—Hesiod: Works and Days, 24.
Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).—Bohn: Handbook of Proverbs.
Murphy: The Apprentice, act iii.
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