...Warburton, " occasioned the following epigram : — " Friend ! in your epitaphs, I'm grieved So very much is said : One half will never be believed, The other never read." The epigram is of very general application ; but according to Warton, it alludes to the too long and...

...Robert Friend, the pun on the name gives piquancy to the verse : — " Friend, for yonr epitaphs I 'in grieved, Where still so much is said : One half will...he was associated. but also that of one of the most com-- ageous, bold, witty, and unwomanly women whom we meet with in literature ; and when we have said...

...name gives piquancy to the verse : — " Friend, for your epitaphs I 'm grieved, Where still so mueh is said : One half will never be believed, The other...he was associated, but also that of one of the most courageous, bold, witty, and unwomanly women whom we meet with in literature ; and when we have said...

...ridicule both church and state. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS.1 FRIEND, for your epitaphs I 'm grieved, Where still so much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read. ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS. 0 GATE, how cam'st thou here 1 Gate. I was brought from...

...but flatters none, MISCELLANIES* EPIGRAM On one who made long Epitaphs. FRIEND, for your epitapns I m grieved, Where still so much is said : One half will never be believed, The other never read. EPIGRAM, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness. I AM his Highness' dog...

...Friend, a great writer of long epitaphs in his day:— " Friend, with tby epitaphs I'm grieved, So very much is said; One half will never be believed— The other never read." On the opposite side, surrounded with a handsome ironrailing, is a square monument supporting an urn,...

...a feeling of too-much-ness, and a disposition to apply to them the satirical lines of the poet : " Where still so much Is said, One half will never be believed, Tho other never read." ME. THOMAS BUTLER Guss, the author of an illustrated volume entitled The Physiology...

...pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM, On one who made lung FRIF.M), for your epitaphs I'm grieved; Where still so much...half will never be believed, The other never read. TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, On. hi» painting for me the Statues of Apollo, VewK.«, and Hercntts. WHAT...

...that Pope, jealous of his celebrity on that score, wrote the following surly epigram on him :— " Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read."] THE BAPTISM OF CHDBCH BELLS. — In the Beehive of the Romish Church, written bv John Stell, and published...

...that Pope, jealous of his celebrity on that score, wrote the following surly epigram on him : — " Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...said, One half will never be believed, The other never read."3 THE BAPTISM OP CHCBCH BELLS. — In the Beehive of the Romish Church, written by John Stell,...