A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cate The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298. Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Who dared to love their country, 8 Line 369. Epigram. Imitation of Martial. and be poor. On his Grotto at Twickenham. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.* Thoughts on Various Subjects. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Ibid. The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 1. 1 See Chaucer, page 4. Herbert, page 206. 2 His wit invites you by his looks to come, COWPER: Conversation, line 303. 8 Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui (The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice). MARTIAL, x. 237. See Cowley, page 262. 4 From Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. v. p. 376; originally printed in Motte's "Miscellanies," 1727. In the edition of 1736 Pope says, "I must own that the prose part (the Thought on Various Subjects), at the end of the second volume, was wholly mine. January, 1734." The distant Trojans never injur'd me. The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 200. Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd. Line 332. Line 684. Line 771. Book ii. Line 970. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, Book iii. Line 199. She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Ajax the great Himself a host. Plough the watery deep. The day shall come, that great avenging day Line 208. Line 293. Line 357. Book iv. Line 196. Line 295. Line 401. First in the fight and every graceful deed. Line 557. A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. Book v. Line 16. Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise, Such men as live in these degenerate days.2 Line 371 1 The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii line 366. 2 A mass enormous! which in modern days Book xx. line 337 Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind. The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999. He held his seat, a friend to human race. Book vi. Line 18. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind. Line 181. Line 330, If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. Line 350. "T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success. Line 427, The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy. Line 467. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see Line 544. Line 624. Book vii. Line 143. Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, ; Line 364. Line 485. Book viii. Line 1. As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Line 371 Book ix. Line 412. 1 As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow..Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18. 2 The same line, with "soul the Odyssey, book xiv. line 181. for "heart," occurs in the translation of Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 524. Short is my date, but deathless my renown. Line 535. Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Line 628. Line 725. To labour is the lot of man below; Book x. Line 78. Line 141. Content to follow when we lead the way. He serves me most who serves his country best.1 Line 201. Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Line 293. Book xi. Line 394. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, Book xii. Line 283. The life which others pay let us bestow, Line 393. Book xiii. Line 106. Book xiv. Line 170. The best of things beyond their measure cloy. 1 He serves his party best who serves the country best. B. HAYES: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. Line 251. RUTHERFORD Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. And for our country 't is a bliss to die. Line 583. Line 852. Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.1 Book xvi. Line 267. Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart. In death a hero, as in life a friend! Line 756. Line 758. Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Book xviii. Line 103. Line 134. I live an idle burden to the ground. Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind. Book xix. Line 303. Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow, Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before. Line 319. Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might. Line 304. 1 A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. -DIOGENES LAERTIUS: On Aristotle. Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. BELLINGHAUSEN: Ingomar the Barbarian, act ii. Divinely fair. - TENNYSON: A Dream of Fair Women, xxii. |