a road, like a highwayman, and yet they will never arrive at wit enough to avoid it; for it is done upon surprise : and as thieves are commonly better mounted than those they rob, he very easily makes his escapes, and flies beyond pursuit, and there is no possibility of overtaking him. -Butler. CLXXV. 175 It is notorious to philosophers, that joy and grief can hasten and delay time. Locke is of opinion, that a man in great misery may so far lose his measure, as to think a minute an hour; or in joy make an hour a minute.Tatler. CLXXVI. / Indolence is a kind of centripetal force.-Shenstone. CLXXVII. 77. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is infected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.-Cicero. CLXXVIII. /78 To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the others.-Diogenes. CLXXIX. /a He who has opportunities to inspect the sacred moments of elevated minds, and seizes none, is a son of dulness; but he who turns those moments into ridicule will betray with a kiss, and in embracing, murder.—Lavater. CLXXX. What but miracles can serve 80 So great a madness to preserve, As his, that ventures goods and chatte!s Puts lands, and tenements, and stocks, And, like an alderman of Gotham, 'Gainst high, and low, and slur, and knap, With those that never venture more Butler-on Gaming. CLXXXI./8/ The proverb ought to run, "A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money."-Shen stone. CLXXXII./82 Melancholy discloses its symptoms according to the sentiments and passions of the minds it affects. An ambitious man fancies himself a lord, statesman, minister, king, emperor, or monarch, and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment. The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spe, and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope, or with the fond conceit that they are already his own. A lovesick brain adores, in romantic strains, the lovely idol of his heart, or sighs in real misery at her fancied frowns. And a scholar's mind evaporates in the fumes of imaginary praise and literary distinction.-Burton. CLXXXIII. 183 Fire burns only when we are near it; but a beautiful face burns and inflames, tho' at a distance.-Xenophon. CLXXXIV. / 84 Could we look into the mind of a female gamester, we should see it full of nothing but trumps and mattadores. Her slumbers are haunted with kings, queens, and knaves. The day lies heavy upon her till the play-season returns, when for half a dozen hours together all her faculties are employed in shuffling, cutting, dealing, and sorting out a pack of cards, and no ideas to be discovered in a soul which calls itself rational, excepting little square figures of painted and spotted paper.-Guardian. CLXXXV. 185 Come, come, sweet love! Beauty's grace, that should rise Like to the naked moru. Lilies on the river's side, And fair Cyprian flow'rs newly blown, Ask no beauties but their own. Ornament is nurse of pride. From England's Helicon. CLXXXVI. /86 Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must be always doing, or suffering.-Zimmerman. CLXXXVII. дн Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters, who roar instead of speaking; therefore, if it be true, that we women are also given to a greater fluency of words than is necessary, sure she that disturbs but a room or a family, is more to be tolerated than one who draws together whole parishes and counties, and sometimes (with an estate that might make him the blessing and ornament of the world around him) has no other view and ambition, but to be an animal above dogs and horses, without the relish of any one enjoyment which is peculiar to the faculties of human nature. I know it will here be said, that, talking of mere country squires at this rate, is, as it were, to write against Valentine and Orson. To prove any thing against the race of men, you must take them as they are adorned with education; as they live in courts, or have received instructions in colleges.-Tatler. CLXXXVIII. /8 That wealth that bounteous fortune sends As presents to her dearest friends, CLXXXIX. 189 Butler. The learned Vossius says, his barber used to comb his head in iambics. And indeed, in all ages, one of this useful profession, this order of cosmetic philosophers, has been celebrated by the most eminent hands. You see the barber in Don Quixote is one of the principal characters in the history.-Steele. CXC. 190 He that sips of many arts, drinks of none. However, we must know, that all learning, which is but one grand science, hath so homogeneall a body, that the parts thereof do with a mutuall service relate to, and communicate strength and lustre each to other. Our artist knowing language to be the key of learning, thus begins— His tongue being but one by nature, he gets cloven by art and industry. Before the confusion of Babel, all the world was one continent in language: since divided intɔ severall tongues, as severall ilands. Grammar is the ship, by benefit whereof we passe from one to another. His mother-tongue was like the dull music of a monochord, which by study he turns into the harmony of severall instruments.-Fuller. CXCI. 19 Logicians use to clap a proposition, And in as learn'd authentic nonsense writ CXCII. 2 Butler. All play-debts must be paid in specie, or by an equivalent. The man that plays beyond his income pawns his estate: the woman must find out something else to mortgage, when her pin-money is gone: the husband has his lands to dispose of, the wife her person. Now when the female body is once dipped, if the creditor be very importunate, I leave my readers to consider the consequences. Guardian. CXCIII. 93. Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.-Sheridan. CXCIV. 94 Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle, will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.-La vuter. CXCV. 195 Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry according to their capacity of judging, into three classes. [He might have said the same of writers too, if he had pleased.] "In the lowest form he places those whom F |