Reader If thou art a Briton, Behold this tomb with reverence and regret! DANIEL PULTENEY: The kindest relation, the truest friend, Sufficient to have distinguished him even in the best. Sagacious by nature, Inquisitive with art. He gained a complete knowledge of the state of Abroad in the auspicious reign of Queen Anne, He served his country always; At court independent, In the senate unbiassed. At every age and in every station This was the bent of his generous soul, PUBLIC MEN AND PUBLIC THINGS. He judged by one constant standard- He made no other distinction of party ; Gentle, humane, disinterested, and beneficent, He feared none he could create in the cause of Britain. Reader! In this misfortune of thy country, lament thine own; The loss of so much private virtue, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND JOHN THOMAS, L. L. D. Bishop of Rochester, And of the most honorable Order of the Bath. With increasing fame every where spreading itself. He did honors to dignities by his merit, Improved riches by bestowing them, Presided over the church with wisdom, Defended it by his authority, Regulated it by his example; Ever active in duties, and unwearied in attentions, Added to the strictest economy, D Till after a well spent life, His Nephew, G. A. T. A. M. To whose lot it fell to perform it, Of duty and affection. JOHN MILTON. He was a great polemical and political writer, and Latin Secretary to Oliver Cromwell; but what have immortalized his name, are those two inimitable pieces, Paradise Lost and Regained. He was born at London in 1608, and died at Bunhill (perhaps the same as Bunhill fields) in 1674, leaving three daughters behind him unprovided for; and not long since a grand daughter of his was relieved by a benefit at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. In 1737, Mr. Auditor Benson erected this Monument to his memory. Under Milton is an elegant Monument lately erected to the memory of Mr. Gray. This Monument seems expressive of the compliment contained in the following Epitaph, where the Lyric Muse, is holding a medallion of the Poet, and at the same time pointing the finger up to the bust, of Milton, which is directly over it : No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns; ΤΟ THE MEMORY OF FRANCIS HOLLIS, By John Earl of Clare, his afflicted father. This brave youth, after returning from making a campaign in Flanders, died August 12, 1662, aged 18. What though thou hast of nature or of arts, ON SIR RICHARD PECKFALL, KNT. Master of the buck hounds to Queen Elizabeth. Death can't disjoin whom Christ hath join'd in love, Life leads to death, and death to life, above. In heaven's a happier place; frail things despise, ON JOHN LORD RUSSEL, Son and heir to Francis, Earl of Bedford. BY HIS LADY. Right noble twice by virtue and by birth, John was his name (ah! was) wretch must I say? TO THE MEMORY OF CATHERINE LADY WALPOLE, Eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esq. of She had beauty and wit, without vice or vanity, And cultivated the arts without affectation, She was devout, though without bigotry to any sect And was without prejudice to any party; Tho' the wife of a minister whose power she esteemed When she could employ it to benefit the Miserable, or to reward the meritorious. |