And those that paint them truest praise them most.' The spacious firmament on high, The Campaign. Last line And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Soon as the evening shades prevail, While all the stars that round her burn, Ode Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. Ibid. For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. Ibid. Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, Horace. Ode iii. Book üi In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Much may be said on both sides. The Lord my pasture shall prepare, presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye. Spectator. No. 68. Round-heads and wooden-shoes are standing jokes. No. 122. No. 444. Prologue to The Drummer. 1 He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Abelard, last line. 2 A translation of Martial, xii. 47, who imitated Ovid, Amores iii. 11, 39. 8 Much may be said on both sides. - FIELDING: The Covent Garden Tragedy, act i. sc. 8. As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, The Fair Penitent. Prologue At length the morn and cold indifference came.2 Is she not more than painting can express, Act i. Sc. 1 Act iii. Sc. 1. Act v. Sc. i 1 None think the great unhappy, but the great.-YoUNG: The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238. 2 But with the morning cool reflection came. - SCOTT: Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv. Scott also quotes it in his notes to "The Monastery," chap. iii. note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary," chap. v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy," chap. xii. See Herbert, page 205. "T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again." The Sluggard And while the lamp holds out to burn, Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book i. Hymn 88. Strange that a harp of thousand strings Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. The tall, the wise, the reverend head When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. There is a land of pure delight, Book ii. Hymn 19. Hymn 63. Ibid. Hymn 65 Hymn 66. 1 I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. — -SENECA: On a Happy Life (L'Estrange's Abstract), chap. i. It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.-OVID: Metamorphoses, xiii. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 1676-1745. The balance of power. Speech, 1741. Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price." COXE: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369. Anything but history, for history must be false. Walpoliana. No. 141. The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.2 VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751. I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. 8 On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2. The dignity of history. 4 Letter v. It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.5 Letter to Mr. Pope. 1 "All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole. 2 Hazlitt, in his "Wit and Humour," says, "This is Walpole's phrase.” The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maxim 298. 8 Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples." 4 HENRY FIELDING: Tom Jones, book xi. chap. ii. HORACE WALPOLE: Advertisement to Letter to Sir Horace Mann. MACAULAY: History of England, vol. i. chap. i. 5 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, POPE: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331. |