Her gifts defpis'd, Corruption blush'd and fled,
And Fame pursued him where Conviction led.
Age call'd, at length, his active mind to reft,
With honour fated, and with cares oppreft;
To letter'd eafe retir'd and honeft mirth,
To rural grandeur and domeftic worth:
Delighted ftill to pleafe 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.
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.
TRANSLATION.
This monument is raised
To the memory of
OLIVER GOLDSMITH,
Poet, Natural Philofopher, and
Hiftorian;
Who left no fpecies of writing untouched
Unadorned by his pen,
Whether to move laughter
Or draw tears.
He was a powerful master
Over the affections,
Though at the fame time a gentle tyrant;
Of a genius at once fublime, lively, and
Equal to every fubje&t :
His expreffion at once noble,
Pure, and delicate.
His memory will laft
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 Ferns in the province
of Leinster,
Where Pallas had set her name
29 Nov. 1731.
He was educated at Dublin,
And died in London,
4th April, 1774.
HENRY THRALE, Efq.
Hic conditur quod reliquum eft
HENRICI THRALE,
Qui res feu civilis, feu domefticas, ita egit
Ut vitam illi longiorem multi optarent
Ita facras.
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
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.
Confortis, tumuli habet, Rodolphum, patrem
Strenuum fortemque virum, & Henricum.
Filium unicum quem fpei parentem
Mors inopina decennem.
Proripuit,
Ita
Domus fœlix & opulenta quam erexit
Avus auxitque pater cum nepote decedit.
Abi viator.
Et vicibus rerum, humanarum perspectis
Eternitatem cogita.
Here lie the remains of
HENRY THRALE,
Who fo well difcharged his feveral duties,
Whether civil, or domeftic,
That many wished him a longer life
So well the duties of his religion,
That he seemed to know before hand, how
Short a life he should enjoy!
Plain, honeft, and always confiftent,
He difplayed nothing in his conduct
Either diffembled, or ftudied.
In Parliament he faithfully confulted the
Welfare of his KING and COUNTRY.
A fpirited contemner of the clamorous multitude
At home, amidst the numberless engagements.
Of business, he cultivated letters,
He affifted his friends in diftrefs,
By his advice, his intereft, and his fortune: Amongst his affociates, companions, and guests, He poffeffed that agreeable fweetnefs of manners By which he won all hearts,
And that happy freedom of fpeech
By which he flattered no one
He was born, 1722. He died 1781.5"
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