The Spectator Volume Iii Part 140

'Life's span forbids us to extend our cares, And stretch our hopes beyond our years.'

(Creech).

290. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 97.

'Forgets his swelling and gigantic words.'

(Roscommon).

291. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 351.

'But in a poem elegantly writ, I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.'

(Roscommon).

292. TIBUL. 4 Eleg. ii. 8.

'Whate'er she does, where'er her steps she bends, Grace on each action silently attends.'

293. Frag. Vet. Poet.

'The prudent still have fortune on their side.'

294. TULL. ad Herennium.

'The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have much reverence for virtue.'

295. JUV. Sat. vi. 361.

'But womankind, that never knows a mean, Down to the dregs their sinking fortunes drain: Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear, And think no pleasure can be bought too dear.'

(Dryden).

296. HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 42.

'Add weight to trifles.'

297. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 66.

'As perfect beauties somewhere have a mole.'

(Creech).

298. VIRG. aen. iv. 373.

'Honour is nowhere safe.'

299. JUV. Sat. vi. 166.

'Some country girl, scarce to a curtsey bred, Would I much rather than Cornelia wed; If supercilious, haughty, proud, and vain, She brought her father's triumphs in her train.

Away with all your Carthaginian state; Let vanquish'd Hannibal without-doors wait, Too burly and too big to pa.s.s my narrow gate.'

(Dryden).

300. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 5.

'--Another failing of the mind, Greater than this, of quite a different kind.'

(Pooley).

301. HOR. 4 Od. xiii. 26.

'That all may laugh to see that glaring light, Which lately shone so fierce and bright, End in a stink at last, and vanish into night.'

(Anon).

302. VIRG. aen. v. 343.

'Becoming sorrows, and a virtuous mind More lovely in a beauteous form enshrined.'