 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 páginas
...; And ev'ry rogue that stunk, alive, Becomes a precious mummy, dead. ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS. FRIEND ! for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read. — Pope. From Swift. ARTHUR, they say, has wit ; for what ? For writing 1 No ; for writing not. ON... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...ridicule both church and state. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LOXG EPITAPHS.1 FRI END, 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. O GATE, how cam'st thou here ? Gate. I was brought from... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 páginas
...will How soon they find fit instruments of ill. Multa verba, modica fides — Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read. Nemo malus felix minime corruptus — Virtue alone is happiness below. N Nihil tam firmum est, cui... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 464 páginas
...return showed him the following epigram : — " Friend ! for your epitaphs I'm grieved : Where still BO much is said, One half will never be believed, The other never read." The old Westminster, although a little hurt that his preceptor should be so slighted, acknowledged... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 páginas
...Thus without life, and without death to die /]* TO DR. ROBERT FREIND, WHO WROTE LONG EPITAPHS. Freind, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still so much...half will never be believed, The other never read. — POPE. THE FOOL AND THE POET. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool; But you... | |
 | 1875 - 584 páginas
...need 'em, The hardship is for those who have to read "em." Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, When still so much is said, One half will never be believed, The other never read. (Not paraphrased.) FlSK. Horse Hair for Sutures. In a communication to the Boston Medical and Surgical... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1876 - 694 páginas
...and wrote the epitaph for him, as for many others. Hence Pope's lines — Freind, for your epitaph I'm grieved. Where still so much is said. One half will never be believed, The other never read. Queen Caroline — an interest independent of any accidental connection with the place. Samuel Wesley's... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 páginas
...practice of writing untruthful and verbose epitaphs, — " Friend, in your epitaphs I'm grieved, So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read." THE HUSBAND'S PETITION. COME hither, my heart's darling, Come sit upon my knee, And listen while I... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 páginas
...starve by rules of art! LXXXVIII. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS. FRIEND, for your epitaphs I 'm grieved; Where still so much is said, One half will never be believed, The other never read ! LXXXIX. POPE. ON THE ASSERTION THAT TO BE A POET IS THE NEXT THING TO BEING A FOOL. " A POET," cries... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 páginas
...thing, And never did a wise one. On long-winded epitaphs : Friend ! in your epitaph I 'm grieved So very much is said : One half will never be believed, The other never read. Col. R , who was famous for his excellent fireworks, was highly commending to a certain lady the epitaph... | |
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FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved. Where still so much is said ; One half will never be believed. The other never read. 
