The epigrammatists : a selection from the epigrammatic literature of ancient, mediæval, and modern times. With notes, observations, illustrations, and an introduction / by the Rev. Henry Philip Dodd.

  • Dodd, Henry Philip, 1828?-
Date:
1870
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Credit: The epigrammatists : a selection from the epigrammatic literature of ancient, mediæval, and modern times. With notes, observations, illustrations, and an introduction / by the Rev. Henry Philip Dodd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON TEE BUST OF MIRABEA U, EXECUTED B Y M. DESEINE, WEO TF^IS DEAF AND DUMB. Translated from the French. (“ Miscellaneous Poetical Extracts from Newspapers.” In the British Museum.) When nature errs, ’tis art’s peculiar care With lenient hand each error to repair; De.seine, the Phidias of his age, can show How tiTie this maxim by his Miraheau. For having seen, although unblcss’d to hear, He rais’d the sleeping patriot from his bier. The senseless stone with breathing features swells. And what ho cannot speak, his chisel tells. TO A LADY WHO OFTEN EMPLOYED IN READING MR. GIBBON’S “ HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.” (“ New Foundling Hospital for Wit,” 1784.) Tho’ angels doubtless might delight Gibbon’s polish’d style to write. If angels wrote at all; Yet, Delia, why so keen to know A dozen centuries ago. What made great empires fall f Those empires, as appears to us In Gibbon, Livy, Tacitus, By Vice were undermin’d : Had 1 hey by Virtue been sustain’d, Like Delia they had still retain’d Their empire o’er mankind I