Volume Iii Part 156 (1/2)

514. VIRG. Georg. iii. 291.

'But the commanding Muse my chariot guides, Which o'er the dubious cliff securely rides: And pleased I am no beaten road to take, But first the way to new discov'ries make.'

(Dryden).

515. TER. Heaut. Act ii. Sc. 3.

'I am ashamed and grieved, that I neglected his advice, who gave me the character of these creatures.'

516. JUV. Sat xv. 34.

'--A grutch, time out of mind, begun, And mutually bequeath'd from sire to son: Religious spite and pious spleen bred first, The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst: Each calls the other's G.o.d a senseless stock: His own divine.'

(Tate).

517. VIRG. aen. vi. 878.

'Mirror of ancient faith!

Undaunted worth! Inviolable truth!'

(Dryden).

518. JUV. Sat. viii. 76.

' 'Tis poor relying on another's fame, For, take the pillars but away, and all The superstructure must in ruins fall.'

(Stepney).

519. VIRG. aen. vi. 728.

'Hence men and beasts the breath of life obtain, And birds of air, and monsters of the main.'

(Dryden).

520. HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 1.