LIB. 12. EP XCI. WEALTHY was of a fever like to die; If his friend Wealthy gave not up the ghost, EPIGRAM *. BY HENLEY. POPE came off clean with Homer; but they fay Broome went before, and kindly fwept the way. Preferved in Johnfon's Life of Broome. + Broome was employed by Pope to tranflate eight books of the Odyssey. EPIGRAM, ON SEEING A WHOLE LENGTH OF NASH BETWEEN THE BUSTS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND MR. POPE IN THE ROOMS AT BATH. BY THE LATE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. IMMORTAL Newton never fpoke The picture plac'd the busts between, Wisdom and Wit are little feen, But Folly at full length AN EPIGRAM ON THE REVEREND LAURENCE ECHARD'S AND BISHOP GILBERT BURNET'S HISTORIES. BY GREEN*. GIL's Hiftory appears to me A cafe of fkeletons well done, And malefactors every one. His fharp and ftrong incifion pen And does with lucid skill impart Their inward ails of head and heart. Laurence proceeds another way, A better fcent than when alive : He wax-work made, to please the fons, Whofe fathers were Gil's skeletons. * Matthew Green, of the Cuftom-house; for a beautiful edition of whofe Poems, with fome judicious obfervations on them, we are obliged to Dr. Aikin. THE FIRST PAIR. BY THE REV. JOHN STRAIGHT *, ADAM alone could not be easy, So he must have a wife, an't please ye : Why, from a rib cut off his fide Who held, many years ago, the living of Finden in Suffex. See the Gentleman's Magazine for 1776. ON CHARINUS, THE HUSBAND OF AN UGLY WIFE. FROM JOHANNES SECUNDUS. BY THE REV. JOHN WHALEY *. YOUR wife's poffeft of fuch a face and mind, That would kind heav'n, whence man all good derives, ON A WASP'S SETTLING ON DELIA'S ARM. BY THE SAME. HOW fweetly careless Delia feems, (Her innocence can fear no harm) While round th' envenom'd infect skims, *Formerly Fellow of King's College. |