...particularly good one, when we recall the fact that the gentleman addressed was Dr. Robert Friend : — " Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read." Swift's epigrams never lack cleverness; the two that follow, were written upon windows with a diamond-pointed...

...physician and epitaph-writer of Queen Anne's day : " Friend ! in your epitaphs I'm grieved So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read." Some Anglo-Indian epitaphs, especially the older ones, suffer grievously from their length. Occasionally...

...their lengthy achievements they won much filthy lucre and fully justified Pope's gibe : ' That where so much is said One half will never be believed The other never read.' It is a blessed relief to light, as one occasionally does, upon those epitaphs which reprove the vulgar...

...the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. Epigram On a Headmaster who made long Epitaphs. Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read. Pope was the only son of a rich London linen-draper, who had early retired from business. As a Roman...

...and polish, two of our tentative triad of qualities, let us consider the third, its sting. Freind, for your Epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still so much...half will never be believed, The other never read. This quatrain of Pope's is obviously an epigram — brevity, polish, sting, all are there. But what...

...Mr. Masters' more recent books, they have revealed to me nothing so poignantly as this— "That where so much is said One half will never be believed The other never read." But if "Spoon River" itself afforded merely a glimpse of the universe walking around under Mr. Masters'...

...physician and epitaph- writer of Queen Anne's day : " Friend ! in your epitaphs I'm grieved So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read." Some Anglo-Indian epitaphs, especially the older ones, suffer grievously from their length. Occasionally...