Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation!
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honour shall be mine.
Gay: Fables, Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds.
[299:1] Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.—Isaac Barrow (1630-1677): Duty of Thanksgiving, Works, vol. i. p. 66.
[299:2] Malone states that this was the first time the phrase "classic ground," since so common, was ever used.
[299:3] This line is frequently ascribed to Pope, as it is found in the "Dunciad," book iii. line 264.
[300:1] He best can paint them who shall feel them most.—Pope: Eloisa to Abelard, last line.
[300:2] A translation of Martial, xii. 47, who imitated Ovid, Amores iii. 11, 39.