[682:1] Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). Addison: Spectator, No. 421.
Hope told a flattering tale,
That Joy would soon return;
Ah! naught my sighs avail,
For Love is doomed to mourn.
Anonymous (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320.
[683:2] Beaumont and Fletcher: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. sc. 3.
[683:3] Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii.
[684:1] Altered by Johnson (1783),—