...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...

...simplicity a child : With native humor tempering virtuous rage Korm'd to delight at once, and loi-li the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted e'en among the great; A safe companion and nn easy friend, Unblani'd through life, lamented in thy end ; Thene are thy honors ; not that here...

...draper's boy a safe niche in the Temple of Fame. It is carved on his tomb in Westminster Abbey : — " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, With native humour tempering virtuous rage Framed to delight at once, and lash the age. Above temptation in a low estate,...

...May 19, 1737. Pope's epitaph on John Gay's monument at Westminster, containing the well-known lines, Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, is quoted in the Gazette,36 doubtless from The London Magazine of five months before,37 where it is...

...first eight lines " the adjectives are without any substantive and the epithets without a subject" : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a...virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Lord Orrery, your great admirer, saith the word " mixed " suits not so properly the heroes' busts...

...first eight lines " the adjectives are without any substantive and the epithets without a subject : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a...With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to deliyht at once and lash the age ; Lord Orrery, your great admirer, saith the word " mixed " suits...

...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...Above Temptation, in a Low Estate, And uncorrupted, even among the Great : A safe Companion, and an easy Friend, Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy End....