If in this interval between The falling leaf and coming frost, For three whole days you here may rest, TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, On his painting for me the statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules. WHAT God, what Genius did the pencil mov、 When Kneller painted these? 'Twas friendship-warm as Phoebus, kind as Love, And strong as Hercules. EPIGRAM. On one who made long Epitaphs *. FRIEND, for your Epitaphs I'm griev❜d, Where still so much is said; One half will never be believ'd, The other never read. It is not generally known that the person here meant was Dr. Robert Friend, head master of Westminster School. I EPIGRAM Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to his Royal Highness. AM his Highness' dog at Kew, EPIGRAM. Occasioned by an Invitation to Court. In the lines that you sent are the Muses and Graces; You've the Nine in yourʼwit, and the Three in your faces. EPIGRAM ON MRS. TOFTS*, A handsome woman with a fine voice, but proud. very covetous and So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along; *This Epigram, first printed anonymously in Steele's col lection, and copied in the Miscellanies of Swift and Pope, is ascribed to Pope by Sir John Hawkins, in his history of music.Mrs. Toft, who was the daughter of a person in the family of Bishop Burnet, is celebrated as a singer little inferior, either for her voice or manner, to the best Italian women. She lived at the introduction of the Opera into this kingdom, and sung in Company with Nicolini; but being ignorant of Italian, chanted her recitative in English, in answer to his Italian yet the corus of their voices overcame the absurdity. But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM On the introduction of Barber's name on Butler's Monument*. RESPECT to Dryden, Sheffield justly paid, * Mr. Pope, in one of the prints from Sheemaker's monument of Shakspear in Westminster - Abbey, has sufficiently shewn his contempt of Alderman Barber, by the following couplets, which is subscribed in the place of The cloud capp'd towers.' Á. Pope. Thus Britain lov'd me; and preserv'd my fame, 'Clear from a Barber's or a Benson's name.' The above Epigram is attributed to Mr. Pope, and he might probably have suppressed his satire on the Alderman, because he was one of Swift's acquaintances and correspondents; though in the fourth book of the Dunciad, he has an anonymous stroke at one line: EPITAPHS. His saltem accumulem donis, et run ar inani Munere ! VIRG. 1. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. DORSET, the grace of courts, the Muse's pride, Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets, shine, 11. ON SIR WILLIAM TRUMBALL, One of the principal Secretaries of State to King William III. who, having resigned his place, died in his retirement at Easthamstead, in Berkshire, 1716. A PLEASING form; a firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resign'd: Honor unchang'd, a principle profest, Fix'd to one side, but mod'rate to the rest; III. ON THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT, Only son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt, at the Church of Stanton-Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, 1720. To o this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near; Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief, but when he dy'd. How vain is reason, eloquence how weak! If Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak. Oh! let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone, And, with a father's sorrows, mix his own! |