Footnotes
[314:2] See Milton, page [223].
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Du Bartas: Days and Weeks, third day.
[315:1] See Milton, page [242].
[315:2] Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2.
[316:1] All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond.
[316:2] See Sir John Davies, page [176].
[316:3] See Dryden, page [267].
[316:4] There is no great and no small.—Emerson: Epigraph to History.
[316:5] See Dryden, page [276].
[317:1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).—Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.—Plato: Phædrus.
[317:2] What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. x.
[317:3] See Dryden, page [269].
[318:1] Why may not a goose say thus? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond.
[318:2] See Cowley, page [260].
[319:1] See Fletcher, page [183].
[319:2] See Cowley, page [262].
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Savage: Character of Foster.
[320:1] See Bolingbroke, page [304].
[320:2] See Dryden, page [273].
[320:3] 'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.—Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5.
[321:1] Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis (All things change, and we change with them).—Matthais Borbonius: Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, i. 685.
[321:2] See Prior, page [287].
[322:1] See Milton, page [231].
[322:2] See Brown, page [287].
[323:1] See Suckling, page [256].
[323:2] Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods).—Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359.
[323:3] See Bacon, page [166].
[323:4] See Suckling, page [257].
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,
To step aside is human.
Burns: Address to the Unco Guid.
[325:2] See Shakespeare, page [96].
[325:3] Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's "Abrégé Chronologique," and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
[326:1] See Burton, page [191].
[327:1] See Bacon, page [168].
[327:2] See Denham, page [258].
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
P. Fletcher: The Purple Island, canto vii.
[327:5] See Sternhold, page [23].
[328:1] See Spenser, page [27].
[328:2] This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey, book xv. line 83, with "parting" instead of "going."
[329:1] See Ben Jonson, page [177].
[329:2] See Dryden, page [267].
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137.
[329:4] A breath can make them as a breath has made.—Goldsmith: The Deserted Village, line 54.
[329:5] See Sidney, page [34].
[330:1] This line is from a poem entitled "To the Celebrated Beauties of the British Court," given in Bell's "Fugitive Poetry," vol. iii. p. 118.
The following epigram is from "The Grove," London, 1721:—
When one good line did much my wonder raise,
In Br—st's works, I stood resolved to praise,
And had, but that the modest author cries,
"Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise."
On a certain line of Mr. Br——, Author of a Copy of Verses called the British Beauties.
[330:2] See Cibber, page [297].
[331:1] Another, yet the same.—Tickell: From a Lady in England. Johnson: Life of Dryden. Darwin: Botanic Garden, part i. canto iv. line 380. Wordsworth: The Excursion, Book ix. Scott: The Abbot, chap. i. Horace: carmen secundum, line 10.
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Savage: Character of Foster.
[331:3] See Shakespeare, page [131].
[331:4] See Addison, page [299].
[331:5] See Shakespeare, page [93].
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.—Johnson (Boswell's Life): vol. ii. ch. i.
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.—Cowper: Conversation, line 298.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.—Walter Scott: Life of Napoleon.
He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.—Macaulay: Review of Aikin's Life of Addison.
Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.—Macaulay: Review of Life and Writings of Sir William Temple.
Greswell in his "Memoirs of Politian" says that Sannazarius himself, inscribing to this lady [Cassandra Marchesia] an edition of his Italian Poems, terms her "delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima" (most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned).
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur (Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish).—Quintilian, x. 7. 22.
[333:1] See Dryden, page [273].
[333:2] Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1.
[333:3] See Addison, page [300].
"Tenez voilà," dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille,
Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais;
Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix."
Boileau: Epître ii. (à M. l' Abbé des Roches).
[334:2] See Spenser, page [29].
[335:1] See Ben Jonson, page [180].
[335:3] See Dryden, page [270].
[336:1] See Chaucer, page [4]. Herbert, page [206].
His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
Cowper: Conversation, line 303.
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].
[336:4] 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."
[337:1] The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii. line 366.
A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
Book xx. line 337.
[338:1] As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow.—Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18.
[338:2] The same line, with "soul" for "heart," occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book xiv. line 181.
[339:1] He serves his party best who serves the country best.—Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.
[340:1] 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.
[340:2] Divinely fair.—Tennyson: A Dream of Fair Women, xxii.
[341:2] Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.—Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.—Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 179.
[341:3] See Middleton, page [172].
[341:4] See Dryden, page [276].
[344:2] Human face divine.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book iii. line 44.
[344:3] Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.—Ovid: Metamorphoses i.
[345:1] See Otway, page [280].
[345:2] See Shakespeare, page [79].
[346:2] Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.—Hebrews xiii. 2.
[347:1] Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x. page 184).
[347:2] On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." . . . Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,—
"This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew!"
It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne.—Biographia Dramatica, vol. i. part ii. p. 469.
JOHN GAY. 1688-1732.
'T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,
A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclin'd.
The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.
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So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.[348:1]
The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9.
'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1.
Over the hills and far away.[348:2]
The Beggar's Opera. Act i. Sc. 1.
If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all ranged,—a terrible show!
The Beggar's Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?[348:3]
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.
Where yet was ever found a mother
Who 'd give her booby for another?
Fables. Part i. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy.
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No author ever spar'd a brother.
Fables. The Elephant and the Bookseller.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.
Fables. Part i. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody.
In ev'ry age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.[349:1]
Fables. Part i. The Rat-catcher and Cats.
Is there no hope? the sick man said;
The silent doctor shook his head.
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel.
While there is life there 's hope, he cried.[349:2]
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel.
Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Fables. Part i. The Mastiffs.
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.[349:3]
Fables. Part i. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven.
And when a lady 's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
Fables. Part i. The Hare and many Friends.
Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honour shall be mine.[349:4]
Fables. Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
Fables. Part ii. The Squire and his Cur.
Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I know it.
My own Epitaph.