The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence, Now spurs the lated traveler apace To gain the timely inn. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 7. Love takes the meaning in love's conference. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 45. Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat primus. Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. SOPHOCLES Antigone. JOHNSON's ed. (1758) L. 632. Sophocles quotes it as a saying. The passage in Antigone is explained by Tricinius as "The gods lead to error him whom they intend to make miserable." Quoted by ATHENAGORAS in Legat. P. 106. Oxon Ed. Found in a fragment of ÆSCHYLUS preserved by PLUTARCH-De Audiend. Poet. P. 63. Oxon ed. See also CONSTANTINUS MANASSES. Fragments. Bk. VIII. L. 40. Ed. by BOISSONADE. (1819) DUPORT's Gnomologia Homerica. P. 282. (1660) Oracula Sibylliana. Bk. VIII. L. 14. LEUTSCH AND SCHNEIDEWIN -Corpus Paromiographorum Græcorum Vol. I. P. 444. SEXTUS EMPIRICUS is given as the first writer to present the whole of the adage as cited by PLUTARCH. ("Con There throbs through all the worlds that are And shaken systems, star by star, DON MARQUIS-Unrest. 18 Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares. RICH. MONCKTON MILNES-The Men of Old. 19 But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 85. 20 How instinct varies in the grov❜lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! "Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 221. 21 Instinct and reason how can we divide? 22 Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 299. 23 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. WORDSWORTH-Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest? |