(Dryden).

618.  HOR. 1 Sat. iv. 40.

  ’ ’Tis not enough the measured feet to close: 
  Nor will you give a poet’s name to those
  Whose humble verse, like mine, approaches prose.’

619.  VIRG.  Georg. ii. 369.

  ’Exert a rigorous sway,
  And lop the too luxuriant boughs away.’

620.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 791.

  ‘Behold the promised chief!’

621.  LUCAN, ix. 11.

  ’Now to the blest abode, with wonder fill’d,
  The sun and moving planets he beheld;
  Then, looking down on the sun’s feeble ray,
  Survey’d our dusky, faint, imperfect day,
  And under what a cloud of night we lay.’

(Rowe).

622.  HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 103.

  ’A safe private quiet, which betrays
  Itself to ease, and cheats away the days.’

(Pooley).

623.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 24.

  ’But first let yawning earth a passage rend,
  And let me thro’ the dark abyss descend: 
  First let avenging Jove, with flames from high. 
  Drive down this body to the nether sky,
  Condemn’d with ghosts in endless night to lie;
  Before I break the plighted faith I gave;
  No:  he who had my vows shall ever have;
  For whom I loved on earth, I worship in the grave.’

(Dryden).

624.  HOR. 2 Sat iii. 77.

  ’Sit still, and hear, those whom proud thoughts do swell,
  Those that look pale by loving coin too well;
  Whom luxury corrupts.’

(Creech).

625.  HOR. 3 Od. vi. 23.

  ‘Love, from her tender years, her thoughts employ’d.’

626.  OVID, Met. i. 1.

  ‘With sweet novelty your taste I’ll please.’

(Eusden).

627.  VIRG.  Ecl. ii. 3.

  ’He underneath the beechen shade, alone. 
  Thus to the woods and mountains made his moan.’

(Dryden).

628.  MOR. 1 Ep. ii. 43.

  ‘It rolls, and rolls, and will for ever roll.’

629.  JUV.  Sat. i. 170.

  ’Since none the living dare implead,
  Arraign them in the persons of the dead.’

(Dryden).

630.  HOR. 3 Od. i. 2.

  ‘With mute attention wait.’

631.  HOR. 1 Od. v. 5.

  ‘Elegant by cleanliness’

632.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 545.

  ’The number I’ll complete,
  Then to obscurity well pleased retreat.’

633.  CICERO.

  ’The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and
  think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human
  affairs.’

634.  SOCRATES apud XEN.

  ‘The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.’

635.  CICERO Somn.  Scip.

  ’I perceive you contemplate the seat and habitation of men; which if
  it appears as little to you as it really is, fix your eyes perpetually
  upon heavenly objects, and despise earthly.’