| [No. 223] | Thursday, November 15, 1711 | Addison |
O suavis Anima! qualem te dicam bonam
Antehac fuisse, tales cùm sint reliquiæ!
Phæd.
When I reflect upon the various Fate of those Multitudes of Ancient Writers who flourished in
Greece
and
Italy
, I consider Time as an Immense Ocean, in which many noble Authors are entirely swallowed up, many very much shattered and damaged, some quite disjointed and broken into pieces, while some have wholly escaped the Common Wreck; but the Number of the last is very small.