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THOMAS PARNELL.
1679-1718.
_The Hermit_. Line 5.
Remote from men, with God he passed 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.
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MATTHEW GREEN.
1696-1737.
_The Spleen_. Line 93.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
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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.]
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_The Astrologer_.
As clear as a whistle.
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_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.
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