Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.

Placed far amid the melancholy main.

Line 118.

Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30.

A little round, fat, oily man of God.

Canto i. St. 69.

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;

Britons never will be slaves. Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5.

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love;

And, when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?

Song, "For ever Fortune."

Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Whoe'er amidst the sons

Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating. Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3.

JOHN DYER. 1700-1758.

Ever charming, ever new,

When will the landscape tire the view?

Grongar Hill. Line 103.

* The line was altered, after the second edition, to
แ
"O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."

230 DODDRIDGE.- DODSLEY.- BROWN.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751.

Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views let both united be;
I live in pleasure, when I live to thee.

Epigram on his Family Arms.*

ROBERT DODSLEY. 1703-1764.

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu ;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.

The Parting Kiss.

JOHN BROWN. 1716-1765.

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten all our future days.

Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 8.

*From Ortin's Life of Doddridge.

SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784.

VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.

Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

Line 1.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Line 159.

He left a name, at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Line 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Line 251.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Line 308.

From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage

flow,

And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.

Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;

Line 317.

Line 346,

LONDON.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Line 166.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Line 176.

Each change of many-colored life he drew,
Exhausted worlds and then imagined new.

Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. And panting Time toiled after him in vain. Ibid.

For we that live to please must please to live.

Ibid.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,

Our own felicity we make or find.

With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. i.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are

things.*

From Dr. Madden's "Boulter's Monument." Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.

In Misery's darkest cavern known,

His useful care was ever nigh,

Where hopeless Anguish poured his groan,

And lonely Want retired to die.

Epitaph on Robert Levett.

Phillips, whose touch harmonious could remove
The pangs of guilty power or hapless love;
Rest here, distressed by poverty no more,
Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;
Sleep, undisturbed, within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
Epitaph on Claudius Phillips, the Musician.

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,

Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.†

* Words are women, deeds are men.

Epitaph on Goldsmith.

HERBERT. Jacula Prudentum.

Words are women, and deeds are men.

Sir Thomas Bodley. Letter to his Librarian, 1604.

Words are for women; actions for men.

Thomas Fuller. Gnomologia.

† Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.

He adorns whatever he attempts.

Fenelon. Eulogy on Cicero.

Whatever subject he either speaks or writes upon, he adorns

it with the most splendid eloquence.

Chesterfield's Letters. Vol. ii. p. 289.