Capitolo 94
the ignorance and the folly! The second is as the owner of a sterile
country that fills his/her eye with the perspective of naked hills and
plain that don't produce anything profitable or ornamental; the
other sees a beautiful and spacious panorama divided in
delicious gardens, green lawns, fertile fields and it is able scarce
you throw his/her eye on an alone stain of his/her possessions that I/you/they are not covered
with some beautiful plant or flower.
CENSORSHIP.
Romulus, et the pater of Liber, cum of et Castore Pollux,
Posts ingentia facta, deorum in templa recepti;
Dum terras hominumque colunt kind, beautiful aspera
Componunt, agros assignant, oppida condunt;
Suis of Ploravere not respondere favorem
Meritis of Speratum.
HOR., Epist. ii. 1, 5.
MITATED.
Edward and Henry, now the boasting of the fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of generous toils bore,
The Gaul subjugated, or ownership assured,
Ambition humiliated, storm of mighty city,
Or laws establish, and the reform of world;
Closed their long glories with a sigh to find
The gratitude not had Th of scurvy humanity.
POPE.
"You retry", it says a dead person clever author, "it is the tax to which a man pays
the public to be eminent." It is a folly for an eminent man to
you think about escaping him and a weakness to be stricken with him. Everybody
the illustrious people of the antiquity, and indeed of every age in the
world, has passed through this ardent persecution. There is anybody
defense against reproach but the obscurity; it is some kind of concomitant
how satires and invectives an essential part is than to the greatness, a
I triumph Roman.
If men of eminence are exposed for retrying on a hand, they is as
very responsible to the adulation on the other. If theirs receive reproaches
what because of them are not, they likewise receives encomiums that them
you don't deserve. In a word, the man in a tall place is never concerned,
with an indifferent eye, but it always considered as a friend or a
hostile. For these people of reason in the great stations rarely has them