Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days. 295 The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2. Act v. Sc. 1 Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Letter to Cobham SAMUEL GARTH. 1670-1719. To die is landing on some silent shore The Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 225. I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.* Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and For all their luxury was doing good." Claremont. Line 149. COLLEY CIBBER. 1671-1757. So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love, Richard III. (altered). Act ii. Sc. 1. Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on. 1 See Shakespeare, page 72. Act iii. Sc. 1. 2 Be wise to-day, 't is madness to defer. - YOUNG: Night Thoughts, night i. line 390. 8 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. CHRISTOPHER CODRINGTON: Lines addressed to Garth on his Dispensary. I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue. Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life. See Shakespeare, page 60. PETRARCH: 6 And learn the luxury of doing good. — GOLDSMITH: The Traveller, line 22. CRABBE: Tales of the Hall, book iii. GRAVES: The Epicure. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome I've lately had two spiders Richard III. (altered). Act iii. Sc. L Crawling upon my startled hopes. Now though thy friendly hand has brush'd 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em. Off with his head! so much for Buckingham! Act iv. Sc. & Ibid. Act v. Sc. 3. Perish that thought! No, never be it said A weak invention of the enemy. As good be out of the world as out of the fashion. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Love's Last Shift. Act ii. We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they 're ended. Possession is eleven points in the law. Words are but empty thanks. Act iv. Prologue to the Double Gallant. Woman's Wit. Act i. Act v. This business will never hold water. She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not. Act iv 1 See Sir Thomas Browne, page 219. 8 See Shakespeare, page 98. 2 See Shakespeare, page 92. ♦ See Congreve, page 294. Losers must have leave to speak. Stolen sweets are best. The will for the deed.1 Within one of her. I don't see it. The Rival Fools. Act i. Ibid Act ini. Act v. The Careless Husband. Act ii. Sc. 2. Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, SIR RICHARD STEELE. 1671-1729. Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.3 Tatler. No. 49. Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. Spectator. No. 266. JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, Of Cato and of Rome. Thy steady temper, Portius, Cato. Act i. Sc. I. Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we 'll deserve it. Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. 1 See Swift, page 292. A parody on Pope's lines : Graced as thou art with all the power of words, Lady Elizabeth Hastings. Ibid. Sc. 2. Sc. 4 'T's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism. Cato. Act i. Sc. 4 Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Ibid. Ibid Act ii. Sc. 1. Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, Ibid. Ibid. The woman that deliberates is lost. Act iv. Sc. 1. Curse all his virtues! they've undone his country. Sc. 4. What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, It must be so, Or whence this secret dread and inward horror 1 Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation! Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. Ibid. Ibid GAY: Fables, Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow and other Birds. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Cato. Act v. Sc. 1 I'm weary of conjectures, this must end 'em. From hence, let fierce contending nations know For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.2 Ibia Act v. Sc. 4 Ibid A Letter from Italy. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, The Campaign. Line 219. And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 1 Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ISAAC BARROW (1630-1677): Duty of Thanksgiving, Works, vol. i. p. 66. 2 Malone states that this was the first time the phrase "classic ground," since so common, was ever used. This line is frequently ascribed to Pope, as it is found in the "Dunciad." book iii. line 264. |