The Spectator
Chapter 419 : 399. PERS. Sat. iv. 23. None, none descends into himself to find The secret imperfecti

399. PERS. Sat. iv. 23.

'None, none descends into himself to find The secret imperfections of his mind.'

(Dryden).

400. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 93.

'There's a snake in the gra.s.s.'

(English Proverbs).

401. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1.

'It is the capricious state of love to be attended with injuries, suspicions, enmities, truces, quarrelling, and reconcilement.'

402. HOR. Ars Poet. 181.

'Sent by the Spectator to himself.'

403. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 142.

'Of many men he saw the manners.'

404. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 63.

'With different talents form'd, we variously excel.'

405. HOM.

'With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends; The paaeans lengthen'd till the sun descends: The Greeks restored, the grateful notes prolong; Apollo listens, and approves the song.'

(Pope).

406. TULL.

'These studies nourish youth; delight old age; are the ornament of prosperity, the solacement and the refuge of adversity; they are delectable at home, and not burdensome abroad, they gladden us at nights, and on our journeys, and in the country.'

407. OVID, Met. xiii. 127.

'Eloquent words a graceful manner want.'

408. TULL. de Finibus.

'The affections of the heart ought not to be too much indulged, nor servilely depressed.'

409. LUCR. i. 933.

'To grace each subject with enlivening wit.'

410. TER. Eun. Act v. Sc. 4.

'When they are abroad, nothing so clean and nicely dressed, and when at supper with a gallant, they do but piddle, and pick the choicest bits: but to see their nastiness and poverty at home, their gluttony, and how they devour black crusts dipped in yesterday's broth, is a perfect antidote against wenching.'

411. LUCR. i. 925.

'In wild unclear'd, to Muses a retreat, O'er ground untrod before, I devious roam, And deep enamour'd into latent springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads.'

412. MART. Ep. iv. 83.

'The work, divided aptly, shorter grows.'

413. OVID, Met. ix. 207.

'The cause is secret, but the effect is known.'

(Addison).

414. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 410.