Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, Epistle to Mr. Addison. Line 67. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, Go just alike, yet each believes his own.1 Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 9. One science only will one genius fit: From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, Of all the causes which conspire to blind A little learning is a dangerous thing; Line 60. Line 152. Line 177. Part ii. Line 1. Line 15. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Line 32. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.1 Line 53. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Line 97. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Line 109. 1 See Suckling, page 256. 2 Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods). HORACE: De Arte Poetica, 359. - 8 See Bacon, page 166. 4 See Suckling, page 256. Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Some to church repair, Line 133. Not for the doctrine, but the music there. And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Line 142. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, Line 156. Line 162. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, Line 166. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; Line 190. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines ! Line 220. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true. Line 266. To err is human, to forgive divine.1 Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 325. Line 358. Part iii. Line 12. All seems infected that th' infected spy, Line 15. Line 53. Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Line 59. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.2 Line 66. Line 89. Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, Part iii. Line 180. Line 134. What dire offence from amorous causes springs ! 1 Then gently scan your brother man, Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, 2 See Shakespeare, page 96. Canto ii. Line 7. Line 17. BURNS: Address to the Unco Guid. 3 Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's “Abrégé Chronologique," and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, The Rape of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 27. Canto iii. Line 7. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, Line 21. Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. Line 117. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever Line 153. Canto iv. Line 123. Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, Canto v. Line 34. Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 1. Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, Line 5. E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me. Line 12. Line 15. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, Line 27. Line 44. Line 61. 1 See Burton, page 191. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Prologue to the Satires. Line 84. Destroy his fib or sophistry-in vain! As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 8 Line 91. Line 127. Line 169. Line 186. Line 197. Line 201. By flatterers besieg'd, Line 207. Line 213. "On wings of winds came flying all abroad." 5 Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Line 218. 1 See Bacon, page 168. Line 283. 2 See Denham, page 258. 3 When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises ; 4 See page 336. 5 See Sternhold, page 23. |