'
'"When at his glory's topmost height," said he,
"Respect of dignity all cast aside,
Freely he fix'd him on Sienna's plain."'
CARY. Dante, _Purgatory_. Cant. xi. l. 133.
[1152]
'How instinct varies in the grovelling swine,
Compared, half-reasoning elephant, with thine.'
Pope, _Essay on Man_, i. 221.
[1153] See _ante_, iii. 153, 296.
[1154] Mr. Burke suggested to me as applicable to Johnson, what Cicero,
in his CATO MAJOR, says of _Appius:--'Intentum enim animum tanquam arcum
habebat, nec languescens succumbebat senectuti_;' repeating, at the same
time, the following noble words in the same passage:--_'Ita enim
senectus honesta est, si se ipsa defendit, si jus suum retinet, si
nemini emancipata est, si usque ad extremum vitae spiritum vindicet jus
suum_.' BOSWELL. The last line runs in the original:-'si usque ad
ultimum spiritum dominatur in suos.' _Cato Major_, xi. 38.
[1155]
'_atrocem_ animum Catonis.'
'Cato--
Of spirit unsubdued.'
FRANCIS. Horace, 2 _Odes_, i.
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