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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. Retaliation. Line 96.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'T was only that when he was off he was acting. Line 101.

He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle
them back.
Line 107.

Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please.

Line 112.

When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios,

and stuff,

He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.

Line 145.

Taught by that Power that pities me,

I learn to pity them. The Hermit. Stanza 6.

Man wants but little here below,

Nor wants that little long. Ibid. Stanza 8.

And what is friendship but a name,

A charm that lulls to sleep,

A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?

Ibid. Stanza 19.

The sigh that rends thy constant heart

Shall break thy Edwin's too.

Ibid. Stanza ult.

1 See Young, Night Thoughts, iv. Line 118.

The naked every day he clad

When he put on his clothes.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

And in that town a dog was found,

As many dogs there be,

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,

And curs of low degree.

Ibid.

The dog, to gain his private ends,

Went mad, and bit the man.

Ibid.

The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.1

When lovely woman stoops to folly,

And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?

Ibid.

On Woman (Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. xxiv.).

The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,

And wring his bosom, is to die.

As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd, or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around."

Ibid.

The Captivity. Acti.

1 While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,

A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light, And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite. Lessing's Paraphrase of a Greek Epigram by Demodocus. 2 Compare Bacon, Of Adversity.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part,

Still, still on hope relies;

And every pang that rends the heart

Bids expectation rise.

The Captivity. Act ii. Orig. MS.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,

Adorns and cheers the way;

And still, as darker grows the light,

Emits a brighter ray.

The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.

Ibid.

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a

shirt.2

The Haunch of Venison.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.3

The Good-Natured Man. Act. ii.

The very pink of perfection.

She stoops to conquer.

Act i. Sc. 1.

Act i. Sc. 2.

A concatenation accordingly. Ibid.

1 Written in imitation of Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse, which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye. "On dit que dans ses amours

Il fut caressé des belles,

Qui le suivirent toujours,

Tant qu'il marcha devant elles."

2 To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. - Tom Brown, Laconics.

3 Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures. - Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses. Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. ix.

For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day ;

But he who is in battle slain

Can never rise and fight again.1

The Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Vol. ii. p. 147. 1761.

1 He that fights and runs away

May turn and fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain

Will never rise to fight again.

Ray's History of the Rebellion, p. 48. Bristol, 1752.

That same man, that runnith awaie,

Maie again fight an other daie.

Erasmus, Apothegms, Trans. by Udall, 1542.

For those that fly may fight again,

Which he can never do that 's slain.

Butler, Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3.

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent. Qui fugiebat, rursus præliabitur: ut et rursus forsitan fugiat. - Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione, c. 10.

The corresponding Greek, 'Ανὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μaxnoɛral, is ascribed to Menander, see Fragments (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bib. Græca), p. 91.

Qui fuit, peut revenir aussi ;
Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi.

Scarron (1610-1660).

Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure

Peut combattre derechef.

From the Satyre Menippée, 1594.

Goldsmith.-Murphy.- Blackstone. 379

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. She stoops to conquer. Act iii.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan, or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

The Bee. No. i. Oct. 6, 1759.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1

Ibid. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.

ARTHUR MURPHY. 1727-1805.

Thus far we run before the wind.

The Apprentice. Act v. Sc. 1.

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

Zenobia. Act v.

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 1723-1780.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, the floating bulwark of our island.

Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Ch. xiii. § 418.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not

to the contrary.

Ibid. Book i. Ch. xviii. § 472.

1 See Young, ante, p. 283.

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