The Spectator
Chapter 403 : (P.) 175. OVID, Rem. Am. v. 625. To save your house from neighbring fire is hard. (Tat

(P.)

175. OVID, Rem. Am. v. 625.

'To save your house from neighb'ring fire is hard.'

(Tate).

176. LUCR. iv. 1155.

'A little, pretty, witty, charming she!'

177. JUV. Sat. xv. 140.

'Who can all sense of others' ills escape, Is but a brute, at best, in human shape.'

(Tate).

178. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 133.

'Civil to his wife.'

(Pope).

179. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 341.

'Old age is only fond of moral truth, Lectures too grave disgust aspiring youth; But he who blends instruction with delight, Wins every reader, nor in vain shall write.'

(P.)

180. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 14.

'The monarch's folly makes the people rue.'

(P.)

181. VIRG. aen. ii. 145.

'Moved by these tears, we pity and protect.'

182. JUV. Sat. vi. 180.

'The bitter overbalances the sweet.'

183. HOM.

'Sometimes fair truth in fiction we disguise; Sometimes present her naked to men's eyes.'

(Pope).

184. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 360.

'--Who labours long may be allowed sleep.'

185. VIRG. aen. i. 15.

'And dwells such fury in celestial b.r.e.a.s.t.s?'

186. HOR. 3 Od. i. 38.

'High Heaven itself our impious rage a.s.sails.'

(P.)

187. HOR. 1 Od. v. 2.

'Ah wretched they! whom Pyrrha's smile And unsuspected arts beguile.'

(Duncome).

188. TULL.