The Spectator
Chapter 431 : 568. MART. Epig. i. 39. Reciting makes it thine. 569. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 434. Wise we

568. MART. Epig. i. 39.

'Reciting makes it thine.'

569. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 434.

'Wise were the kings who never chose a friend, Till with full cups they had unmask'd his soul, And seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.'

(Roscommon).

570. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 322.

'Chiming trifles.'

(Roscommon).

571. LUC.

'What seek we beyond heaven?'

572. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 115.

'Physicians only boast the healing art.'

573. JUV. Sat. ii. 35.

'Chastised, the accusation they retort.'

574. HOR. 4 Od. ix. 45.

'Believe not those that lands possess, And s.h.i.+ning heaps of useless ore, The only lords of happiness; But rather those that know For what kind fates bestow, And have the heart to use the store That have the generous skill to bear The hated weight of poverty.'

(Creech).

575. VIRG. Georg. iv. 223.

'No room is left for death.'

(Dryden).

576. OVID, Met. ii. 72.

'I steer against their motions, nor am I Borne back by all the current of the sky.'

(Addison).

577. JUV. Sat. vi. 613.

'This might be borne with, if you did not rave.'

578. OVID, Met. xv. 167.

'Th' unbodied spirit flies And lodges where it lights in man or beast.'

(Dryden).

579. VIRG. aen. iv. 132.

'Sagacious hounds.'

580. OVID, Met. i. 175.

'This place, the brightest mansion of the sky, I'll call the palace of the Deity.'

(Dryden).

581. MART. Epig. i. 17.

'Some good, more bad, some neither one nor t'other.'