DR. WALTER POPE.

1714.

The Old Man's Wish.

May I govern my passion with an absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

NATHANIEL LEE.

- 1692.

Alexander the Great.

Act ii. Sc. 2.

'Tis beauty calls and glory leads the way.

MATTHEW PRIOR.

1664-1721.

A Better Answer.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Hans Carvel.

That, if weak woman went astray,

Their stars were more in fault than they.

The end must justify the means.

COLLEY CIBBER.

1671-1757.

Richard III.

Act iii. Sc. 1.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome, Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it.

Act v. Sc. 1.

Hark, from the tents

The armorers accomplishing the knights,
With clink of hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

1672-1719.

Cato. Act i. Sc. 1.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

JONATHAN SWIFT.

1667-1745.

My Lady's Lamentation.

Hail fellow! well met! 48

Gulliver's Travels.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

ALEXANDER POPE.

1688-1744.

Essay on Man.

Epistle i. Line 111.

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Epistle i. Line 226.

What thin partitions sense from thought divide.*

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,

"Nullum

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
DRYDEN, ante, p. 139.

magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit." Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi, xvii. 12, quotes this from Aristotle, who gives as one of his Problemata (xxx. 1), ▲ià tí távtes ὅσοι περιττοὶ γεγόνασιν ἄνδρες ἢ κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν ἢ πολιτικὴν ἢ ποίησιν ἢ τέχνας φαίνονται μελαγχολικοὶ ὄντες.

Epistle ii. Line 13.

Chaos of thought and passion all confused,
Still by himself abused or disabused ;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.*

Epistle iii. Line 242.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

Line 303.

For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best.

Moral Essays.

Epistle ii. Line 261.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules.

An Essay on Criticism.

Part iii. Line 89.

Led by the light of the Mæonian star.

* " Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ! quelle nouveauté, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction! Juge de toutes choses, imbécile ver de terre, depositaire du vrai, amas d'incertitude, gloire et rebut de l'univers.”—PASCAL, Systèmes du Philosophes,

XXV.

Line 180.

Content if hence the unlearned their wants may view, The learned reflect on what before they knew.*

Satires and Imitations of Horace.
Prologue, Line 84.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Line 91.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain,
The creature 's at his dirty work again.

Line 213.

Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?

Line 283.

Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Book ii. Epistle ii. Line 72.

Years following years steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Book iv. Ode 9.

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!
They had no poet, and they died.

* "Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti."

This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Henault's "Abrégé Chronologique,” and in the preface to the third edition of his work, Henault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.