The Spectator
Chapter 429 : For nature forms and softens us within, And writes our fortunes changes in our face: P

'For nature forms and softens us within, And writes our fortune's changes in our face: Pleasure enchants, impetuous rage transports, And grief dejects, and wrings the tortured soul: And these are all interpreted by speech.'

(Roscommon).

542. OVID, Met. ii. 430.

'He heard, Well pleased, himself before himself preferred.'

(Addison).

543. OVID, Met. ii. 12.

'Similar, though not the same.'

544. TER. Adelph. Act v. Sc. 4.

'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience; insomuch that we find ourselves really ignorant of what we thought we understood, and see cause to reject what we fancied our truest interest.'

545. VIRG. aen. iv. 99.

'Let us in bonds of lasting peace unite, And celebrate the hymeneal rite.'

546. TULL.

'Everything should be fairly told, that the buyer may not be ignorant of anything which the seller knows.'

547. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 149.

'Suppose you had a wound, and one that show'd An herb, which you apply'd, but found no good; Would you be fond of this, increase your pain, And use the fruitless remedy again?'

(Creech).

548. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 68.

'There's none but has some fault, and he's the best, Most virtuous he, that's spotted with the least.'

(Creech).

549. JUV. Sat. iii. 1.

'Tho' grieved at the departure of my friend, His purpose of retiring I commend.'

550. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 138.

'In what will all this ostentation end?'

(Roscommon).

551. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 400.

'So ancient is the pedigree of verse, And so divine a poet's function.'

(Roscommon).

552. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 13.

'For those are hated that excel the rest, Although, when dead, they are beloved and blest.'

(Creech).

553. HOR. 1 Ep. xiv. 35.

'Once to be wild is no such foul disgrace, But 'tis so still to run the frantic race.'

(Creech).

554. VIRG. Georg. iii. 9.

'New ways I must attempt, my grovelling name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.'

(Dryden).