The Spectator
Chapter 414 : Delighted with unaffected plainness. 328b. HOR. Epod. xvii. 24. Day chases night, and

'Delighted with unaffected plainness.'

328b. HOR. Epod. xvii. 24.

'Day chases night, and night the day, But no relief to me convey.'

(Duncombe).

329. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 27.

'With Ancus, and with Numa, kings of Rome, We must descend into the silent tomb.'

330. JUV. Sat. xiv. 48.

'To youth the greatest reverence is due.'

331. PERS. Sat. ii. 28.

'Holds out his foolish beard for thee to pluck.'

332. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 29.

'He cannot bear the raillery of the age.'

(Creech).

333. VIRG.

'He calls embattled deities to arms.'

334. CIC. de Gestu.

'You would have each of us be a kind of Roscius in his way; and you have said that fastidious men are not so much pleased with what is right, as disgusted at what is wrong.'

335. HOR. Ars Poet. 327.

'Keep Nature's great original in view, And thence the living images pursue.'

(Francis).

336. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 80. _Imitated._

'One tragic sentence if I dare deride, Which Betterton's grave action dignified, Or well-mouth'd Booth with emphasis proclaims (Tho' but, perhaps, a muster-roll of names), How will our fathers rise up in a rage, And swear, all shame is lost in George's age!

You'd think no fools disgraced the former reign, Did not some grave examples yet remain, Who scorn a lad should teach his father skill, And, having once been wrong, will be so still.'

(Pope).

337. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 63.

'The jockey trains the young and tender horse, While yet soft-mouth'd, and breeds him to the course.'

(Creech).

338. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 18.

'Made up of nought but inconsistencies.'

339. VIRG. Ecl. vi. 33.

'He sung the secret seeds of nature's frame, How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.

The tender soil then stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas, The earth and ocean various forms disclose, And a new sun to the new world arose.'

(Dryden).

340. VIRG. aen. iv. 10.

'What chief is this that visits us from far, Whose gallant mien bespeaks him train'd to war?'

341. VIRG. aen. i. 206.

'Resume your courage and dismiss your fear.'