greatest enemy to himself, and the next to his friend, and then most in the act of his kindness, for his kindness is but trying a mastery, who shall sink down first: and men come from him as a battle, wounded and bound up. No. thing takes a man off more from his credit, and business, and makes him more retchlessly careless what becomes of all. Indeed, he dares not enter on a serious thought, or if he do, it is but such melancholy that it sends him to be drunk again.-Bishop Earle.

In all ages, and in every nation where poetry has been in fashion, the tribe of sonnetteers hath been very numerous. Every pert young fellow that has a moving fancy, and the least jingle of verse in his head, sets up for a writer of songs, and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress. What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolution, to go no higher.-Steele.

XCIII. 93.

Fade, flow'rs! fade, nature will have it so
'Tis what we must in our autumn do!
And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground,
The loss alone by those that lov'd them found;
So in the grave shall we as quiet lie,

Miss'd by some few that lov'd our company;
But some so like to thorns and nettles live,

That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.
Waller.-From the French.

XCIV.

It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory nothing can be made of nothing he who has laid up no materials, can produce no combinations.-Sir J Reynolds.

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XCV.

An ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined:

The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words: "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet t is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?"-Addison.

XCVI. 76.

Custom, tho' but usher of the school

Where nature breeds the body and the soul,
Usurps a greater pow'r and interest

O'er man the heir of reason, than brute beast,
That by two different instincts is led,
Born to the one, and to the other bred,
And trains him up with rudiments more false
Than nature does her stupid animals;

And that's one reason why more care's bestow'd
Upon the body than the soul's allow'd,
That is not found to understand and know
So subtly as the body's found to grow.

XCVII.

Butler.

A man coming to the waterside, is surrounded by all the crew; every one is officious, every one making appli cations, every one offering his services, the whole bustle of the place seems to be only for him: the same man going from the waterside, no noise is made about him, no crea.

ture takes notice of him, all let him pass with utter neglect The picture of a minister when he comes into power, and when he goes out. -Pope.

XCVIII. 98

Orators and stage coachmen, when the one wants arguments and the other a coat of arms, adorn their cause and their coaches with rhetoric and flowerpots.-Shen

stone.

XCIX. 99

Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth:
A smile recures the wounding of a frown,
But blessed bankrupt, that by love so thriveth.
Shakspeare.

c.100

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet, in liberal art.

CI.

Steele.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.-Lavater.

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CII.
To a huntsman,

His toil is his delight, and to complain
Of weariness, would show as poorly in him
As if a general should grieve for a wound
Received upon his forehead, or his breast,
After a glorious victory.

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Massinger.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by anv -Confucius.

CIV. 104.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world; to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavour to live so as to avoid it: the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.—Swift.

CV./05

Self-love and morosity, together with luxury and effeminacy, breed in us long and frequent fits of anger; which, by little and little, are gathered together into our souls, like a swarm of bees and wasps.-Plutarch.

CVI. 106

If, instead of furnishing a room with separate portraits, a whole family were to be introduced into a single piece, and represented under some interesting historical subject, suitable to their rank and character, portraits which are now so generally and so deservedly despised, might become of real value to the public. By this means history painting would be encouraged among us, and a ridiculous vanity to the improvement of one of the most instructive, as well as the most pleasing, of the imitative arts. Those who never contributed a single benefit to their own age, nor will ever be mentioned in any after-one, might by this means employ their pride and their expense in a way which might render them entertaining and useful both to the present and future times.-Fitzosborne's Letters.

CVII. 107.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure. Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light. In short, she seems to have designed the head as the cupola to the most glorious of her works; and when we load it with a pile of supernumerary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly contrive to call off the eye from great and real beauties, to childish gewgaws, ribands, aud bone-lace.— Addison-on Ladies' Head-dresses.

CVIII. 188

As misers their own laws enjoin
To wear no pockets in the mine,
For fear they shou'd the ore purloin⚫
So he that toils and labours hard
To gain, and what he gets has spar'd,
Is from the use of all debarr'd.

And tho' he can produce more spankers
Than all the usurers and bankers,
Yet after more and more he hankers;
And after all his pains are done,
Has nothing he can call his own,
But a mere livelihood alone.

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Butler.

There are a set of dry, joyless, dúll fellows, who want capacities and talents to make a figure amongst mankind upon benevolent and generous principles, that think to surmount their own natural meanness, by laying offences in the way of such as make it their endeavour to excel upon the received maxims and honest arts of life.Guardian.

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Mathematics is a ballast for the soul, to fix it, not to stali it; nor to jostle out other arts. As for judiciall astrology, (which hath the least judgment in it,) this vagrant hath been whipped out of all learned corporations. If our artist lodgeth her in the out rooms of his soul for a night or two, it is rather to heare than believe her relations.-Fuller.

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It was perhaps ordained by Providence, to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another, that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retirement or death any chasm in the world-Johnson.