The Spectator
Chapter 416 : (Dryden). 357. VIRG., aen. ii. 6. Who can relate such woes without a tear? 358. HOR. 4

(Dryden).

357. VIRG., aen. ii. 6.

'Who can relate such woes without a tear?'

358. HOR. 4 Od. xii. 1. ult.

' 'Tis joyous folly that unbends the mind.'

(Francis).

359. VIRG. Ecl. ii. 63.

'Lions the wolves, and wolves the kids pursue, The kids sweet thyme,--and still I follow you.'

(Warton).

360. Hor. 1 Ep. xvii. 43.

'The man who all his wants conceals, Gains more than he who all his wants reveals.'

(Duncome).

361. VIRG. aen. vii. 514.

'The blast Tartarean spreads its notes around; The house astonish'd trembles at the sound.'

362. HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 6.

'He praises wine; and we conclude from thence, He liked his gla.s.s on his own evidence.'

363. VIRG. aen. ii. 368.

'All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears, And grisly Death in sundry shapes appears.'

(Dryden).

364. HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 29.

'Anxious through seas and land to search for rest, Is but laborious idleness at best.'

(Francis).

365. VIRG. Georg. iii. 272.

'But most in spring: the kindly spring inspires Reviving heat, and kindles genial fires.'

_Adapted_.

'Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year, Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts.'

('Thomson's Spring', 160, _&c._)

366. HOR. 1 Od. xxii. 17.

'Set me where on some pathless plain The swarthy Africans complain, To see the chariot of the sun So near the scorching country run: The burning zone, the frozen isles, Shall hear me sing of Celia's smiles; All cold, but in her breast, I will despise, And dare all heat, but that of Celia's eyes.'

(Roscommon).

367. JUV. Sat. i. 18.

'In mercy spare us, when we do our best To make as much waste paper as the rest.'

368. EURIP. apud TULL.

'When first an infant draws the vital air, Officious grief should welcome him to care: But joy should life's concluding scene attend, And mirth be kept to grace a dying friend.'

369. HOR. Ars Poet. 180.

'What we hear moves less than what we see.'