 | 1850 - 704 sidor
...himself, should be dimmed ; and on Murray's return showed him the following epigram : — 'Freind! for your epitaphs I'm grieved : Where still so much...half will never be believed, The other never read.' The old Westminster, although a little hurt that his preceptor should be so slighted, acknowledged... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 sidor
...beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS 2 . FREIND, for your Epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still so much...half will never be believed, The other never read. i This epigram, first printed anonymously in Steele'* Collection, and copied in the Miscellanies of... | |
 | 1822 - 654 sidor
...lies" have been well described in the epigram : — " Friend, in your epitaphs I 'm grieved, So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other, never read." The Greeks were singularly happy in the appropriateness of this sort of inscription, and in the delicacy... | |
 | 1822 - 640 sidor
...lies" have been well described in the epigram : — " Friend, in your epitaphs 1 'm grieved, So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other, never read." The Greeks were singularly happy in the appropriateness of this sort of inscription, and in the delicacy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 sidor
...lies" have been well described in the epigram: — " Friend, in your epitaphs I 'm grieved, So very much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other, never read." The Greeks were singularly happy in the appropriateness of this sort of inscription, and in the delicacy... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sidor
...That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS 1 . Where still so much is said; One half will never be believed, FREIND, for your Epitaphs I'm grieved, The other never read. 1 This epigram, first printed anonymously... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 sidor
...visee, EPIGRAM. On one who made long Epitaphs.* FBI KMi, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where st Ш so much is said ; One half will never be believed, The other never read. TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, On Me painting for me the Statues of Apollo, Venta, and Hercules. WHAT god,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 sidor
...That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM. On one who made long Epitapht.^ FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved. Where still...half will never be believed. The other never read. TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, On Mi painting for me the Statua of Apollo, Venul, and Hercules, WHAT god,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 sidor
...That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. EPIGRAM. On one who made long Epitaphs. FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read. TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, 'or me the WHAT god what genius, did the pencil move When Kneller painted these?... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 sidor
..."Ah !" said the man, " they run so fast, They never will have done." ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS. Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still...half will never be believed, The other never read.* ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, Which Pope gave to HRH the Duke of Cumberland. I am his highness'... | |
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FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved. Where still so much is said ; One half will never be believed. The other never read. 
