All, soon or late, Soft as some song divine thy story flows. The Odyssey of Homer. Book zi. Line 458. Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. Line 531. What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose ! Line 641, But sure the of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame. Line 591. And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves. Line 722. Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. Line 736. There in the bright assemblies of the skies. Line 745. Gloomy as night he stands. Line 749. are doom'd that path to tread. Book zii. Line 31. And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.? Line 538. He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear. Book xii. Line 1. His native home deep imag'd in his soul. Line 38. And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base rankind, The last and hardest conquest of the mind. Line 363. How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Line 375. It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Book ziv. Line 65. The sex is ever to a soldier kind. Line 246. gay cities and the ways of men. Line 410. 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 zo. Line 79 Far from Line 520 i See Otway, page 280. 2 See Shakespeare, page 79. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest, The Odyssey of Homer. Book zo. Line 83 For too much rest itself becomes a pain. Line 429. Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. And taste The melancholy joy of evils past : For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. Line 434 Line 433. For love deceives the best of womankind. Line 463 And would'st thou evil for his good repay ? Book xvi. Line 448. Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Book xvii. Line 392. In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. Line 505. Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.” Line 676. Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow, Book xviii. Line 26. Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe. Line 269. A winy vapour melting in a tear. Book xix. Line 143. But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. Line 383. The fool of fate, – thy manufacture, man. Book xx. Line 254. Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword. Line 461 i See page 328. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews xiii. 2. Line 516. Dogs, ye have had your day! The Odyssey of Homer. Book zii. 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. Line 382. So ends the bloody business of the day. And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. Book cxiv. Line 19. The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay. Line 271. And o’er the past Oblivion stretch her wing. Line 657. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727. be disappointed. JOHN GAY. 1688–1732. 'T was when the sea was roaring The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8. 1 Macklin's Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x, page 184). On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the “Merchant of Venice.” performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed, That Shakespeare drew!” It has beera said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant his panegyricon Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne. - Biographia " This is the Jew Dramatica, vol. i. part ii. p. 469. So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, — The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9. The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. Ibid. Ibid. Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. Ibid. Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. rid. 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'URFET: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723). 8 “ Midnight oil," - a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cow per, Lloyd, and others. No author ever spar'd a brother. Fables. The Elephant and the Bookseller. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody. In ev'ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree." The Rat-catcher and Cats. Is there no hope ? the sick man said ; The silent doctor shook his head. The Sick Man and the Angel. While there is life there's hope, he cried.? Ibid. Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. The Mastiffs. That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his iil-betiding croak !) good. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven. And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Hare and many Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. - Hesiod: Works le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter). – Bonix: MURPHY : The Apprentice, act iii. 2 Ελπίδες εν ζωοισιν, ανέλπιστοι δε θανόντες (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.) – THEOCRITUS: Idyl iv. 42. Agroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope). -- CICERO : Epistolarum ad Atticum, iz. 10. : It was n't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left Bodes me no and Days, 24. Han-book of Procerbs. hand. - PLAUTUS: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3. 4 See Addison, page 298. |