The Spectator Volume Iii Part 142

(Dryden).

317. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 27.

'--Born to drink and eat.'

(Creech).

318. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 63.

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

319. HOR. 1 Ep. i. 90.

'Say while they change on thus, what chains can bind These varying forms, this Proteus of the mind?'

(Francis).

320. OVID, Met. vi. 428.

'Nor Hymen nor the Graces here preside, Nor Juno to befriend the blooming bride; But fiends with fun'ral brands the process led, And furies waited at the genial bed.'

(Croxal).

321. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 99.

' 'Tis not enough a poem's finely writ; It must affect and captivate the soul.'

322. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 110.

'Grief wrings her soul, and bends it down to earth.'

(Francis).

323. VIRG.

'Sometimes a man, sometimes a woman.'

324. PERS. Sat. ii. 61.

'O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found, Flat minds, and ever grovelling on the ground!'

(Dryden).

325. OVID, Metam. iii. 432.

(From the fable of NARCISSUS.)

'What could, fond youth, this helpless pa.s.sion move?

What kindled in thee this unpitied love?

Thy own warm blush within the water glows; With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes; Its empty being on thyself relies; Step thou aside, and the frail charmer dies.'

(Addison).

326. HOR. Lib. iii. Od. xvi. 1.

'Of watchful dogs an odious ward Right well one hapless virgin guard, When in a tower of bra.s.s immured, By mighty bars of steel secured, Although by mortal rake-h.e.l.ls lewd With all their midnight arts pursued, Had not--'

(Francis), vol. ii. p. 77.

_Adapted._

'Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, And clap your padlock on her mind.'

(Padlock).

327. VIRG. aen. vii. 48.

'A larger scene of action is display'd.'

(Dryden).

328. PETRON. ARB.