...comes John Gay, careless, somewhat indolent and improvident, but always good-natured and witty : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child." Never had a man a larger circle of friends, and few had greater triumphs as a poet and dramatist, but...

...offer of a pension. /.26o. My Verse: Pope's epitaph on Gay in Westminster Abbey reads as follows : 'Of manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a...lash the age: Above Temptation, in a Low Estate, And uncorrupted, even among the Great : A safe Companion, and an easy Friend, Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented...

..." Fables " in the language, always excepting George Ade's. Swift loved him, and of him Pope wrote : "Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child." Among his sayings the following have passed into proverbs: " How happy I could be with either, Were...

...Life is a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it, and Pope's epitaph : Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man,...humour temp'ring virtuous rage ; Form'd to delight at one, and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great : A...

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...epitaph, despite the terrible mangling it has received at the hands of Johnson, may also be here quoted: Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man;...lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate, And uncorrupted, e'en among the great : A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblamed through life, lamented...

...makes new conquests and maintains the past. POPE— Epistle to Mus Blount. With the Works of Voiture. 7 h Ado About Nothing. ActV. Sc.4. L. 41. Compare her POPE — Epitaph XI. 8 "Fis from high Life high Characters are drawn; Л Saint in Crape is twice a...

...manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour temp 'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate, And uncorrupted, ev 'n among the great : A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblam'd through life, lamented...

...my brow, Look sour, and hum a tune, as you may now. Epitaph on John Gay in Westminster Abbey, 1732 Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour temp 'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate,...

...so long on this subject."* Gay was buried in Westminster Abbey. His epitaph was written by Pope : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a...temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and last the age : Above temptation, in a low estate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the great : A safe companion,...