"Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech) To make men happy, or to keep them so," (So take it in the very words of Creech) Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired? BYRON-Don Juan. Canto V. 100. POPEFirst Book of the Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. L. 1. (See also CREECH) 13 For fools admire, but men of sense approve. POPE-Essay on Criticism. L. 391. 14 Season your admiration for awhile. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 192. Some bold adventurers disdain * * and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign worlds. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 439. 17 Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon. Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure-perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon. He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.-Who is too adventurous, said Echepbron,-loses horse and mule. replied Malcon. RABELAIS Gargantua. Bk. I. Ch. 33. 20 And these vicissitudes come best in youth; He who hath proved war, storm or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deem'd so weighty. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 50. 21 Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. CARLYLE-Heroes and Hero Worship. ture V. 22 Lec In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes. VIII. 14. 23 |