The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern. Panegyrical, satyrical, amorous, moral, humorous, monumental, with an essay on that species of composition / [Anon].

Date:: 1767

Credit: The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern. Panegyrical, satyrical, amorous, moral, humorous, monumental, with an essay on that species of composition / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$_ That after ages fhall with wonder {eek, Who ’twas tranflated Homer into Greek. In Behalf of Mr: Southerne. - «Lo the. Duke of Argyle. A RGYLE, his praife when Southerne wrote, Firft ftruck out this and then that thought, — Said this was flatt’ry, that a fault ; How fhall the bard contrive ? My lord, confider what you do, He'll lofe his pains, and verfes too ; For, if thefe praifes fit not you, They'll ferve no man alive. To the right hon. Arthur, Earl of Anglefey, é By Swift. F the old * Samian do€trine of fpirits be true, ‘Then Cicero’s {pirit does penance in you ; For Yove, when he jaw him fo fond of applaufe, Which fway’d him much more than the client or caufe, Determin’d his foul to your body to doom, Great as when firft he aftonifh’d old Rome; With al! his own virtues a fecond time bleft And fortitude added to crown all the reft ; Sf But to check the vain glory, that reign’d in his fpirit, ~ He gave you ax ear that can’ bear your own merit. On the spectator. HEN firft the Tatler to a mute was turn’d, Great Britain for her cenfor’s filence mourn’d ; Robb’d of his fprightly beams, fhe wept the night, Till the Speator rofe and blaz’d as bright. * Pythagoras, who firft taught the tranfmigration of fouls, was of Samos, ' So$