CAMBRIDGE. 'A Spanish writer has this thought in a poetical conceit.
After observing that most of the solid structures of Rome are totally
perished, while the Tiber remains the same, he adds,
'_Lo que era Firme huio solamente,
Lo Fugitivo permanece y dura_[714].'
JOHNSON. 'Sir, that is taken from Janus Vitalis:[715]
'... _immota labescunt;
Et quae perpetuo sunt agitata manent_[716].'
The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a
cheerful contented man. JOHNSON. 'We have no reason to believe that, my
Lord. Are we to think Pope was happy, because he says so in his
writings? We see in his writings what he wished the state of his mind to
appear. Dr. Young, who pined for preferment, talks with contempt of it
in his writings, and affects to despise every thing that he did not
despise.'[717] BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. 'He was like other chaplains, looking
for vacancies: but that is not peculiar to the clergy. I remember when I
was with the army,[718] after the battle of Lafeldt, the officers
seriously grumbled that no general was killed.' CAMBRIDGE. 'We may
believe Horace more when he says,
"_Romae Tibur amem, ventosus Tibure Romam_[719];"
than when he boasts of his consistency:
"_Me constare mihi scis, et decedere tristem,
Quandocunque trahunt invisa negotia Romam_[720].
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