The Spectator
Chapter 427 : 514. VIRG. Georg. iii. 291. But the commanding Muse my chariot guides, Which oer the d

514. VIRG. Georg. iii. 291.

'But the commanding Muse my chariot guides, Which o'er the dubious cliff securely rides: And pleased I am no beaten road to take, But first the way to new discov'ries make.'

(Dryden).

515. TER. Heaut. Act ii. Sc. 3.

'I am ashamed and grieved, that I neglected his advice, who gave me the character of these creatures.'

516. JUV. Sat xv. 34.

'--A grutch, time out of mind, begun, And mutually bequeath'd from sire to son: Religious spite and pious spleen bred first, The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst: Each calls the other's G.o.d a senseless stock: His own divine.'

(Tate).

517. VIRG. aen. vi. 878.

'Mirror of ancient faith!

Undaunted worth! Inviolable truth!'

(Dryden).

518. JUV. Sat. viii. 76.

' 'Tis poor relying on another's fame, For, take the pillars but away, and all The superstructure must in ruins fall.'

(Stepney).

519. VIRG. aen. vi. 728.

'Hence men and beasts the breath of life obtain, And birds of air, and monsters of the main.'

(Dryden).

520. HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 1.

'And who can grieve too much? What time shall end Our mourning for so dear a friend?'

(Creech).

521. P. ARB.

'The real face returns, the counterfeit is lost.'

522. TER. Andr. Act iv. Sc. 2.

'I swear never to forsake her; no, though I were sure to make all men my enemies. Her I desired; her I have obtained; our humours agree.

Perish all those who would separate us! Death alone shall deprive me of her!'

523. VIRG. aen. iv. 376.

'Now Lycian lots, and now the Delian G.o.d, Now Hermes is employ'd from Jove's abode, To warn him hence, as if the peaceful state Of heavenly powers were touch'd with human fate!'

(Dryden).

524. SEN.

'As the world leads, we follow.'

525. EURIP.

'That love alone, which virtue's laws control, Deserves reception in the human soul.'

526. OVID, Met. ii. 127.

'Keep a stiff rein.'

(Addison).

527. PLAUTUS in Stichor.