...uses it, in the Epitaph he made for his Friend Gay, too beautiful and instructive to be here omitted. Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild, In Wit a Man, Simplicity a Child. Words ever pleasing, yet sincerely true, Satire still just, and Humour ever new. Above Temptation,...

...suitably refashioned, were proclaimed at Westminster Abbey as the personification of childlike innocence. Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a man; simplicity, a child . . . In the Epistle to Arbuthnot he presents Gay as the perfect model of neglected genius. Blest be...

...ever I knew." — SWIFT, to Lady Betty Germaine, Jan. 1733. 60.03 could frisk and fondle round Pope,* *"Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a...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...