Medulla Poetarum Romanorum Or, the Most Beautiful and Instructive Passages of the Roman Poets. Being a Collection, (Disposed under proper Heads,) Of such Descriptions, Allusions, Comparisons, Characters, and Sentiments, as may best serve to shew the Religion, Learning, Politicks, Arts, Customs, Opinions, Manners, and Circumstances of the Antients. With Translations of the same in English Verse. By Mr. Henry Baker |
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Experience.
Let Stoicks Ethics haughty Rules advance,
To combat Fortune, and to conquer Chance:
Yet happy Those, who not so learn'd, are thought,
Whom Life instructs, tho' by Experience taught.
For new to come, from past Misfortunes, look:
Nor shake the Yoke, which galls the more 'tis shook.—
To combat Fortune, and to conquer Chance:
Yet happy Those, who not so learn'd, are thought,
Whom Life instructs, tho' by Experience taught.
For new to come, from past Misfortunes, look:
Nor shake the Yoke, which galls the more 'tis shook.—
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The Seaman best can reason of the Winds,
Of Oxen none so well as lab'ring Hinds:
Battles and Wounds the Soldiers best describe,
And what belongs to Sheep the Shepherd Tribe.—
Of Oxen none so well as lab'ring Hinds:
Battles and Wounds the Soldiers best describe,
And what belongs to Sheep the Shepherd Tribe.—
The Fowler and the Huntsman know full well,
The Haunts of Birds, and Beasts, and where they dwell:
The artful Angler, in the winding Brook,
Knows what the Fish, and how to bait his Hook.—
The Haunts of Birds, and Beasts, and where they dwell:
The artful Angler, in the winding Brook,
Knows what the Fish, and how to bait his Hook.—
Nothing, at first, so great, so strange appears,
But that the Wonder, by Degrees abates,
And it becomes familiar.—
But that the Wonder, by Degrees abates,
And it becomes familiar.—
Ne'er did Man cast up the Business of his Life so exactly, but still Experience, Years, and Custom, will bring in some new Particulars he was not aware of, and shew his Ignorance of what he thought he knew, and after Trial make him reject his former Opinions.—
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