IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH-YARD, DURHAM. ON ROBERT DODSLEY, An eminent Bookseller. IF BY JOSEPH SPENCE. you have any respect For uncommon industry and merit, In which are interred the remains of Who, as an author, rais'd himself Much above what could have been expected From one in his rank of life: And without a learned education. IN CHATHAM CHURCH-YARD. ON MRS. ANN FARLAM, Who died by the bite of her favourite Lap Dog. DEATH, the last end of all, is fix'd, is sure, But manifold the means that end procure. My little favourite cur, my guiltless friend, Thy tooth with frenzy struck, induc'd my end. Be ready, mortals, for the solemn call; No matter what the means by which you fall. DR. SMOLLETT. Translation of a Latin Inscription on a Tuscan Column, erected to the memory of Dr. Smollett, near Dumbarton, in the Highlands of Scotland. STOP Traveller! If elegance of taste and wit, if fertility of genius, If a masterly art in delineating manners, Have ever been the objects of your admiration, Pause a little over the memory of TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D. With those virtues, which, in the man and citizen, A felicity in composition Having spent a life in these elegant studies, How far, alas! from his native Country! Vain pledge, alas! of affection, And subject of his latest poetry, by ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD. By John Cleveland. HERE lies wise and valiant dust, His prince's nearest joy and grief ALDERSGATE, LONDON. NOT far remote lies a lamented fair, No sage can censure the parental sigh: ON MR. AIKMAN AND HIS SON. By D. Mallet. DEAR to the wise and good, disprais'd by none, The painter's genius, but without the pride; The son fair rising knew too short a date; ON JOHN GRANTHAM, Who died 23d July, 1751, aged 76. EPITAPH IN VARIOUS COUNTRY CHURCH-YARDS. A PALE Consumption gave the fatal blow, ON SHADRACH JOHNSON, Who kept the Wheat Sheaf at Bedford, and had twenty-four children by his first wife, and eight by his second. SHADRACH lies here, who made both sexes happy, The women with love-toys, the men with nappy. ON A COUNTRY CURATE. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, No minister e'er mark'd him for his own. Bread was his only food, his drink the brook; He left his laundress all he had a book; He found in Death-'twas all he wish'd—a friend. No longer seek his wardrobe to disclose, Nor draw his breeches from their darksome cell; There, like their master, let them find repose, Nor dread the horrors of a taylor's hell. ON A BUTCHER. By this inscription be it understood, Thro' Christ, my Lord, who shed his blood for me. |