Volume Iii Part 134 (1/2)

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203. OVID, Met. ii. 38.

'Ill.u.s.trious parent! if I yet may claim The name of son, O rescue me from shame; My mother's truth confirm; all doubt remove By tender pledges of a father's love.'

204. HOR. 1 Od. xix. 7.

'Her face too dazzling for the sight, Her winning coyness fires my soul, I feel a strange delight.'

205. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 25.

'Deluded by a seeming excellence.'

(Roscommon).

206. HOR. 3 Od. xvi. 21.

'They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.'

(Creech).

207. JUV. Sat. x. 1.

'Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue?

How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice.'

(Dryden, Johnson, &c.)

208. OVID, Ars Am. 1. i. 99.

'To be themselves a spectacle they come.'

209. SIMONIDES.

'Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.'

210. CIC. Tusc. Quaest.