[454] Addison's translation of Horace, Ode iii. 3:
Thrice should my favourite Greeks his works confound,
And hew the shining fabric to the ground.—WAKEFIELD.
Ille quoque eversus mons est, &c.
Quid faciant crines, cum ferro talia cedant?
Catull. de Com. Berenices.—Pope.
At regina gravi, &c.—Virg. Æn. iv. 1.—Pope.
But anxious cares already seized the queen;
She fed within her veins a flame unseen.
Dryden's Transl.— Wakefield.
[457] The thought and turn of these lines is imitated from the Dispensary, Canto iii.:
Not beauties fret so much if freckles come,
Or nose should redden in the drawing-room.
[458] All the lines from hence to the 94th verse, that describe the house of Spleen, are not in the first edition; instead of them followed only these: