Chapter 19

[267-2] See Fuller, page 221.

[267-3] No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.--ARISTOTLE: _Problem, sect. 30._

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae (There is no great genius without a tincture of madness).--SENECA: _De Tranquillitate Animi, 15._

What thin partitions sense from thought divide!--POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle i. line 226._

[267-4] Greatnesse on Goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land.

KNOLLES: _History_ (under a portrait of Mustapha I.)

[268-1] Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.--_Joel ii. 28._

[268-2] Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night v. line 661._

[268-3] They always talk who never think.--PRIOR: _Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana._

[268-4] Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit

(Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjurer,--he knew everything).--JUVENAL: _Satire iii. line 76._

[268-5] A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.--JULIUS HARE: _Guesses at Truth._

A Christian is the highest style of man.--YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night iv. line 788._

[269-1] Furor fit laesa saepius patientia (An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger).--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 289._

[269-2] See Spenser, page 28.

[269-3] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen.

POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle ii. line 217._

[269-4] Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat (Whom God wishes to destroy he first deprives of reason). The author of this saying is unknown. Barnes erroneously ascribes it to Euripides.

[269-5] And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.--GOLDSMITH: _The Deserted Village, line 180._

[270-1] Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child.

POPE: _Epitaph on Gay._

[270-2] Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkl'd, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night v. line 600._

[271-1] Graecia Maeonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem

(Greece boasts her Homer, Rome can Virgil claim; England can either match in Milton's fame).

SELVAGGI: _Ad Joannem Miltonum._

[272-1] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198.

[272-2] This proverb Dryden repeats in _Amphitryon, act i. sc. 2._

See Shakespeare, page 106.

[273-1] And love the offender, yet detest the offence.--POPE: _Eloisa to Abelard, line 192._

[273-2] Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere, Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.

BOILEAU: _L' Art Poetique, chant 1^er._

Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 379._

[273-3] Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me; I have dined to-day.

SYDNEY SMITH: _Recipe for Salad._

[274-1] Our scanty mutton scrags on Fridays, and rather more savoury, but grudging, portions of the same flesh, rotten-roasted or rare, on the Tuesdays.--CHARLES LAMB: _Christ's Hospital five-and-thirty Years Ago._

[274-2] See Burton, page 191.

[274-3] See Davies, page 176.

[275-1] See Burton, page 193.

[275-2] Fat, fair, and forty.--SCOTT: _St. Ronan's Well, chap. vii._

Mrs. Trench, in a letter, Feb. 18, 1816, writes: "Lord ---- is going to marry Lady ----, a fat, fair, and fifty card-playing resident of the Crescent."

[275-3] Quos laeserunt et oderunt (Whom they have injured they also hate).--SENECA: _De Ira, lib. ii. cap. 33._

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris (It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured).--TACITUS: _Agricola, 42. 4._

Chi fa ingiuria non perdona mai (He never pardons those he injures).--_Italian Proverb._

[276-1] There are not eight finer lines in Lucretius.--MACAULAY: _History of England, chap. xviii._

[276-2] Whatever is, is right.--POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle i. line 289._

[276-3] A green old age unconscious of decay.--POPE: _The Iliad,