Age call'd, at length, his active mind to reft,
With honour fated, and with cares opprest ;
To letter'd ease retir'd and honeft mirth,
To rural grandeur and domeftick worth:
Delighted ftill to please mankind, or mend,
The patriot's fire yet sparkled in the friend.
Calm Confcience then, his former life furvey'd,
And recollected toils endear'd the shade,
Till Nature call'd him to the general doom,
And Virtue's forrow dignified his tomb.

Е Р І Т А Р Н

CLAUDE

ON

PHILLIPS,

An ITINERANT MUSICIAN *.

PHILLIPS! whofe touch harmonious could remove
The pangs of guilty pow'r, and hapless love,

Reft here, diftreft by poverty no more,
Find here that calm thou gav'ft so oft before;
Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

* These lines are among Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies; they are, nevertheless, recognized as Johnson's, in a memorandum of his hand-writing, and were probably written at her request. Phillips was a travelling fidler up and down Wales, and was greatly celebrated for his performance.

EPITAPH

EPITAPH

Mr.

FOR

HOGAR T H.

THE hand of him here torpid lies,

That drew th' effential form of grace;
Here closed in death th' attentive eyes,
That faw the manners in the face.

LATIN EPITAPH

ON

Dr. OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

OLIVARII GOLDSMITH,

Poeta, Phyfici, Historici,
Qui nullum ferè fcribendi genus
Non tetigit.

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit

Sive rifus effent movendi

Sive lacrymæ.

Affectuum potens at lenis dominator
Ingenio fublimis vividus verfatilis

Oratione grandis nitidus venuftus.
Hoc monumentum memoriam coluit
Sodalium amor

Amicorum fides

Lectorum veneratio.

Natus Hibernia Fornia Lonfordienfis

In loco cui nomen Pallas
Nov. XXIX. M.DCC.XXXI.
Eblanæ literis inftitutus

Obiit Londini

April IV. M.DCC.LXXIV.

Though at the fame time a gentle tyrant ;
Of a genius at once fublime, lively, and
Equal to every subject:

His expreffion at once noble,
Pure, and delicate.

His memory will last

As long as fociety retains affection,
Friendship is not void of honour,
And reading wants not her admirers.
He was born in the kingdom of Ireland,
At Fernes in the province

Hic conditur quod reliquum eft

HENRICI THRALE,

Qui res feu civilis, feu domefticas, ita egit

Ut vitam illi longiorem multi optarent
Ita facras.

Ut

Ut quam brevem effet, habiturus prefcire videretur.
Simplex apertus, fibique femper fimilis.
Nihil oftentavit, aut arte fictum, aut cura
Elaboratum.

In Senatu, Regi, Patriæque
Fideliter Studuit.

Vulgi obftrepentis, contempar animofus Ley
Domi inter mille mercaturæ negotia
Literarum elegantiam, minimæ neglexerit,
Amicis quocunque modo laborantibus
Conciliis auctoritate, muneribus adfuit.
Inter familiares, comites, convivas hofpites
Tam facile fuit morum fuavitate
Ut omnium animos ad fe alliceret
Tam felici fermonis libertate
Ut nulli adulatus, omnibus placeret.
Natus 1722. Obiit 1781.

es Confortis, tumuli habet, Rodolphum, patrem
Strenuum fortemque virum, & Henricum
Filium unicum quem fpei parentem com
Mors inopina decennem

Proripuit.
Ita

Domus fœlix & opulenta quam erexit
Avas auxitque pater cum nepote decedit
Abi viator

Et vicibus rerum, humanarum perfpectis
Eternitatem cogita.