The glory of the priesthood and the shame.—Essay on Criticism.


And more true joy Marcellus, exiled, feels,

Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.—Pope: Essay on Man.

Drawn from Bolingbroke, who plagiarized the idea from Seneca, who says,—

O Marcellus, happier when Brutus approved thy exile than when the commonwealth approved thy consulship.


For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight:

He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right—Pope: Essay on Man.

Taken from Cowley:—