Soft as some song divine thy story flows.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 458.

Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.1
What mighty woes

To thy imperial race from woman rose!

But
sure the
eye of time beholds no name
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.

Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.
There in the bright assemblies of the skies.
Gloomy as night he stands.

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.2

Line 531.

Line 541.

Line 591.

Line 722.

Line 736.

Line 745.

Line 749.

-Book xii. Line 31.

He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear
His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

Line 538.

Book xiii. Line 1.

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last and hardest conquest of the mind.

Line 38.

Line 353.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Line 375.

It never was our guise

To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

Book xiv. Line 65.

Line 246.

Line 410.

Line 520.

Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme,
And both the golden mean alike condemn. Book xv. Line 79

1 See Otway, page 280.

2 See Shakespeare, page 79.

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.1
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 83,

For too much rest itself becomes a pain.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

And taste

The melancholy joy of evils past:

Line 429.

Line 433.

For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. Line 434

For love deceives the best of womankind.

And would'st thou evil for his good repay ?

Whatever day

Line 463

Book xvi. Line 448.

Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Book xvii. Line 392.

Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise
Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow,

Line 505.

Line 576.

Book xviii. Line 26.

Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
A winy vapour melting in a tear.

Line 269.

Book xix. Line 143.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,
Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

The fool of fate, — thy manufacture, man.

Line 383.

Book xx. Line 254.

Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.

1 See page 328.

Line 461

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have enter

Dogs, ye have had your day!

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 41.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song.

Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone,
The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.

So ends the bloody business of the day.

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay.

Line 382.

Line 516.

Book xxiv. Line 19.

And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.

Line 271.

Line 557.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never

be disappointed.1

This is the Jew

That Shakespeare drew.3

Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727.

JOHN GAY. 1688-1732.

'Twas when the sea was roaring

With hollow blasts of wind,

A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclin'd.

page 184).

The What d'ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.

1 Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x, 2 On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,

"This is the Jew

That Shakespeare drew!"

his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne. - Biographia It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant Dramatica, vol. i. part ii. p. 469.

So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er,-
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.1
The What d'ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9.

"Tis woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1.

Over the hills and far away.

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!

The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all ranged, a terrible show!

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Sc. 2.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.

Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.

Ibid.

Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?
Where yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?

Ibid.

The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy.

1 The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a "quart d'heure de Rabelais," that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy. — Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13.

2 O'er the hills and far away. — D'URFEY: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723).

8" Midnight oil,". ―a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cow per, Lloyd, and others.

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,

A mind serene for contemplation:

Title and profit I resign;

The post of honour shall be mine."

Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds.

1 Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. - HESIOD: Works

and Days, 24.

Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter). — Box: Handbook of Proverbs.

MURPHY: The Apprentice, act iii.

2 Ελπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.) - THEOCRITUS: Idyl iv. 42. Egroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).-CICERO: Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10.

It was n't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.-PLAUTUS: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3.

4 See Addison, page 298.