ODYSSEY.

Few sons attain the praise

Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.

Book ii. Line 315.

Far from gay cities and the ways of men.

Book xiv. Line 410.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

Book xv. Line 79.

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

Book xv. Line 83. Whatever day

Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.
Book xvii. Line 392.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow.
For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
Book xviii. Line 279.

This is the Jew

That Shakespeare drew."

1 Cf. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 160, p. 288.

2 On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor, in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." . . . . Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit, that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,

"This is the Jew

That Shakespeare drew."

It has been said that this gentleman was Mr Pope, and that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne. - Biog. Dram. Vol. i. Pt. ii. p. 469.

THOMAS TICKELL. 1686-1740.

Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ;
And saints who taught, and led the way to Heaven.
On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 41.

Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.

Ibid. Line 45.

There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.1

Ibid. Line 81.

The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.
To a Lady; with a Present of Flowers.

I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay,

I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.

Colin and Lucy.

DR. GEORGE SEWELL.

--1726.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. The Suicide.

1 Cf. Porteus, Death, Line 318.

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die. Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903.

'T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,

A damsel lay deploring,

All on a rock reclin'd.

The What D'ye call 't. Act ii. Sc. 8.

So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 9.

'Tis woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. The Beggar's Opera. Acti. Sc. 1.

Over the hills and far away.1 Ibid. Acti. Sc. I.

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. I.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong.

How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away.

Ibid. Act ii. S. 2.

1 And 't is o'er the hills and far away.

Jockey's Lamentation. From Wit's Mirth, Vol. iv.

The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all rang'd; a terrible show!

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2.

All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.

Adieu, she cried, and wav'd her lily hand.

FABLES.

Ibid.

Long experience made him sage.

The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?1 Ibid.

1

When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?

The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy.

Is there no hope? the sick man said;
The silent doctor shook his head.

The Sick Man and the Angel.

While there is life there 's hope, he cried.2

Ibid.

Those who in quarrels interpose

Must often wipe a bloody nose.

The Mastiffs.

1 'midnight oil,' a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.

2 Ελπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες.

Theocritus, Id. iv. Line 42.

Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est.

Cicero, Epist. ad Att. ix. 10.

, Gay continued.]

And when a lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.

The Hare and many Friends.

Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I know it.
My own Epitaph.

In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.
The Lady's Resolve.1
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at

last.2

The Lover.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.
A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's Advice,

Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen,
Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace. Book ii.

1 A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montagu, after her marriage (1713). The last lines were taken from Overbury : —

In part to blame is she
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.

The Wife, St. 36.

2 What say you to such a supper with such a woman? Byron, Note to Letter on Bowles.