...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. ON MR. GAY, In Westminster ЛЫху, 17ЭО. tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and laih the age : Above temptation in a low estate,...

...though unavailing sorrow. Pope was equally grieved by the loss of him whom he has characterised an ers Gay was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a handsome monument was erected to his memory by the "Uuke...

...enthusiasm." His personal qualities were exactly those delineated by POPE in his epitaph on GAY:—- " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, "In wit a MAN, simplicity a CHILD." Moribus ornatus placidis et corde benigno, VIR fnit ingenio, simplicitate PUER. The following little...

...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died. ON MR. GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. OF manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man ; simplicity a child : With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...fear thy nature : It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. Macbeth, Act i.'Sc. 5. SHAKESPEAKKOf manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child. • . • • A safe companion and an easy friend Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Efita/x...