...dear old friend.' There is one passage in the original, better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson : 'Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit ^ which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation...

...•the brief but josl character of an honest historian. Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se &uam quod ridiculos homines facit. Lat. JUVENAL. " The greatest hardship of poverty is, that it tend, to make men ridiculous." " Want is the scorn of ev'ry wealthy fool, " And Wit in rags is turn'd...

...bear, reads — the poor man's contumely ; the contumely which the potman is obliged to endure : " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, " Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." Malont. 7 — — of despis'd love,'] The folio reads — of dispriz'd love. Steevens. '— — might...

...alter Pelle patet ; vel si consuto vulnere crassum , Atque recens li nuin.. ostendit non una cicatrix I Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in, se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat , ìr iti pudor est , et de pulvino surgat equestri , Cnìus res legi non sufficit , et sedeant...

...Phantasmagoria? After expatiatirig upon the sad effects of poverty, you may remember he pathetically remarks— " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit " Lord Avonmore bristled up at once — " Why, Mr, Curran, Hesiod was not in historian, he was a poet,...

...alter Pelle patet ; vel si, consuto vulnere, crassum ISO Atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix? Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit; et sedeant...

..." — — Materiem praebet causasque jocorum Omnibus hie idem ? si foeda et scissa lacerna, &c. 14 Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. " — — — — Agmine facto, Debuerant olim tenues migrasse Quirites. * The Spaniards at this time...

...folio reads — " the poor man's contumely ; " the contumely which the poor man is obliged to endure : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. MALONE. 8 — of DESPIS'D love,] The folio reads — of dispriz'd love. STEEVENS. 9 — might his auiETus...

...comedy) friends and strangers, all forsake me. Which is most grievous, poverty makes men ridiculous : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit : they must endure s jests, taunts, flouts, blows of their betters, and take all in good part to get...

...This life is subject to many vicissitudes, and no one knows what may be his own change of fortune. " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, " Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." JUVENAL. Poca barba, poca verguenza. — " Little bread, little shame." — Alluding to young and ill-taught...