To express the great Swift in a compass so small? The thought was my own, howsoe'er you came by't. For though both the wit and the style is my gift, 'Tis VERTUE alone can design us a SWIFT." EPIGRAM ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS ON SWIFT'S LIFE AND WRITINGS. A SORE disease this scribbling itch is! What! libel his friend when laid in ground: For what he writes George Faulkner prints. Had Swift provoked to this behaviour, He built an hospital-for fools. Lord Orrery translated the letters of the younger Pliny.---Scott. TO DOCTOR DELANY, 66 ON HIS BOOK ENTITLED OBSERVATIONS ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS." DELANY, to escape your friend the Dean, Yet make his puns and riddles sterling wit. EPIGRAM ON Faulkner's displaying in his shop the Dean's bust in marble, (now placed in the great aisle of St. Patrick's church), while he was publishing Lord Orrery's Remarks. FAULKNER! for once you have some judgment shown, By representing Swift transform'd to stone; AN INSCRIPTION, INTENDED for a compartment in Dr. Swift's monument, designed by Cunningham, on College Green, Dublin. SAY, to the Drapier's vast unbounded fame, What added honours can the sculptor give? None. 'Tis a sanction from the Drapier's name Must bid the sculptor and his marble live. June 4, 1765. AN EPIGRAM. OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION. WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend; That loss Ierne's laurel shall supply; Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him |