Volume Iii Part 124 (1/2)

'Poems like pictures are.'

59. SENECA.

'Busy about nothing.'

60. PERS. Sat. iii. 85.

'Is it for this you gain those meagre looks, And sacrifice your dinner to your books?'

61. PERS. Sat. v. 19.

' 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise.'

(Dryden).

62. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 309.

'Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.'

(Roscommon).

63. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. i.

'If in a picture, Piso, you should see A handsome woman with a fish's tail, Or a man's head upon a horse's neck, Or limbs of beasts, of the most different kinds, Cover'd with feathers of all sorts of birds; Would you not laugh, and think the painter mad?

Trust me that book is as ridiculous, Whose incoherent style, like sick men's dreams, Varies all shapes, and mixes all extremes.'

(Roscommon).

64. JUV. Sat. iii. 183.

'The face of wealth in poverty we wear.'

65. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 90.

'Demetrius and Tigellius, know your place; Go hence, and whine among the school-boy race.'