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. line 727._ TICKELL: _Poem on Hunting._ POPE: _Windsor Forest._

[231-1] Ye little stars! hide your diminished rays.--POPE: _Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 282._

[232-1] See Herrick, page 203.

[232-2] Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.--WILLIAM PITT: _Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783._

[234-1] When unadorned, adorned the most.--THOMSON: _Autumn, line 204._

[238-1] "But most of all respect thyself."--A precept of the Pythagoreans.

[239-1] Stern daughter of the voice of God.--WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

[240-1] Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day).--MARTIAL: _lib. x. epigram 47, line 13._

[241-1] The child is father of the man.--WORDSWORTH: _My Heart Leaps up._

[245-1] See Shakespeare, page 56.

[247-1] Erant quibus appetentior famæ videretur, quando etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur (Some might consider him as too fond of fame, for the desire of glory clings even to the best of men longer than any other passion) [said of Helvidius Priscus].--TACITUS: _Historia, iv. 6._

[249-1] Wisdom married to immortal verse.--WORDSWORTH: _The Excursion,