Ode in Imitation of Horace. B. iii. Od. 2. And virtue is her own reward.

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Part ii. Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came. •

To the Hon. Charles Montague. Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim

At objects in an airy height: The little pleasure of the game

Is from afar to view the flight.'

COLLEY CIBBER.

1671-1757.

Richard TIL Act iv. Sc. 3.

I 've lately had two spiders

Crawling upon my startled hopes —

Now tho' thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,

Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes;

I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

Act iv. Sc. 3.
Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!

Act v. Sc. 3.
Richard is himself again!

* Variations in a copy printed 1692.

But all the pleasure of the game

Is afar off to view the flight.

Absolom and Aehitophel — Continued

Part i. Line 156.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy body to decay,
And o'er informed the tenement of clay.

Part i. Line 163..
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Parti. Line 169.
And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.

Part i. Line 174.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Part i. Line 238.
The people's prayer — the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.'

Part i. Line 301.
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

Part i. Line 512.
Not only hating David, but the king.

Part i. Line 534.
Who think too little, and who talk too much.

* Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.—Joel iii. 28.

Absalom and Achitophel — Continued.

Part i. Line 545.
A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long.

Part i. Line 557.
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or devil.

Part i. Line 645.
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

Part i. Line 868.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Part i. Line 1005. Beware the fury of a patient man.

Part ii. Line 414. And dashed through thick and thin.*

Part ii. Line 463. For every inch, that is not fool, is rogue.

All for Love. Prologue.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Act iv. Sc. i.
Men are but children of a larger growth.

The Tempest. Prologue.
But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.

Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1.
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Spanish Friar.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
There is a pleasure
In being mad which none but madmen know.

Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1. This is the porcelain clay of human kind.

Translation of Juvenal's 10th Satire. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.

Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.

Imitation of the 29?A of Horace. Book i. Line 65. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.

Mac Flecknoe. Line 20.
But Shadwell never deviates into sense.

The Cock and Fox.
Line 452.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Theodore and Honoria. And that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

On Milton.
Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third she joined the former two.