Chapter 60
_The Hermit_. Line 5.
Remote from men, with G.o.d he pa.s.sed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
BARTON BOOTH.
1681-1733.
_Song_.
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
MATTHEW GREEN.
1696-1737.
_The Spleen_. Line 93.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
JOHN BYROM.
1691-1763.
_'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini_.[13]
Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
[Note 13: "Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's Remains (Cheltenham Soc), Vol. I. p 173. The last two lines have been attributed to Switt and Pope. _Vide_ Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope.]
_The Astrologer_.
As clear as a whistle.
_Epigram on Two Monopolists_.
Bone and skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
BISHOP BERKELEY.
1684-1753.
_On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America_.
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's n.o.blest offspring is the last.
ROBERT BLAIR.
1699-1746.
_The Grave_. Part ii. Line 586.
The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.
EDWARD YOUNG.
1681-1765.
NIGHT THOUGHTS.
Night i. Line 1.
Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!