NICHOLAS ROWE. 1673-1718.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.1
The Fair Penitent. Prologue.
At length the morn, and cold indifference came.2

Act i. Sc. 1.

Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love? Act iii. Sc. 1.
Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? Act v. Sc. 1.

THOMAS PARNELL.

1679-1717.

Still an angel appear to each lover beside,

But still be a woman to you. When thy Beauty appears.

Remote from man, with God he passed the days,
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

We call it only pretty Fanny's way.

The Hermit. Line 5.

An Elegy to an Old Beauty.

Let those love now who never loved before,

Let those who always loved now love the more.

Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris.3

1 None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Young, The Love of Fame, Satire i. Line 238. 2 But with the morning cool reflection came. — - Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, Ch. iv., also quoted in the notes to the Monastery, Ch. iii. n. 11, and with calm' substituted for 'cool' in the Antiquary, Ch. v., , and 'repentance' for 'reflection' in Rob Roy, Ch. xii. 3 Written in the time of Julius Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus:

Cras amet qui numquam amavit;

Quique amavit, cras amet.

BOLINGBROKE.-FARQUHAR.

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HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLING

BROKE.

1678-1751.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philosophy teaching by examples.1

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.

GEORGE FARQUHAR. 1678-1707.

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?

Kite. Oh! a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.

The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1. I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. The Beaux Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 1.

'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.2

Necessity, the mother of invention.3

Act iii. Sc. 2.

The Twin Rivals. Act i.

1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhet. xi. 2 (p. 398, R.), says: Παιδεία ἄρα ἐστὶν ἡ ἔντευξις τῶν ἠθῶν· τοῦτο καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἔοικε λέγειν, περὶ ἱστορίας λέγων· ὅτι καὶ ἱστορία φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν ἐκ #арadeιyμάтwν, quoting Thucydides, I. 22.

2 Compare Barrington, New South Wales. Page 391.

3 Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694). See Appendix, p. 645.

Magister artis ingenique largitor

Venter. Persius, Prolog., Line 10.

BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;1
The four first acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day;

Time's noblest offspring is the last.

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

Our youth we can have but to-day,

We may always find time to grow old.

Can Love be controlled by Advice? 2

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

Siris. Par. 217.

JANE BRERETON. 1685-1740.

The picture, placed the busts between,
Adds to the thought much strength;

Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly 's at full length.

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length, between the Busts of
Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.4

1 Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States.

2 From Aikin's Vocal Poetry, London, 1810.

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That cheer but not inebriate. — Cowper, The Task, Book iv.

4 From Dyce's Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell's Specimens, note, p. 521.

AARON HILL. 1685-1750.

First, then, a woman will, or won't, depend on 't;
If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.1 Zara. Epilogue.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,

And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

Verses written on a Window in Scotland.

"T is the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel;

But be rough as nutmeg-graters,

And the rogues obey you well.

Ibid.

ALLAN RAMSAY. 1686-1758.

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean,
Where heartsome wi' thee I ha'e mony days been;
For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more,

We'll may be return to Lochaber no more.

Lochaber no More.

1 The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury:

Where is the man who has the power and skill

To stem the torrent of a woman's will?

For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;

And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't.

Examiner, May 31, 1829.

EDWARD YOUNG. 1684-1765.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!
Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 1.
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Line 18.

Line 23.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time,

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?

Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.1

Procrastination is the thief of time.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;

Line 212.

Line 390.

Line 393.

Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

Line 417.

All men think all men mortal but themselves. Line 424.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Night ii. Line 24.

And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

1 Compare Congreve, Letter to Cobham. Page 257.

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