VII. DR. SWIFT.' THE HAPPY LIFE OF A COUNTRY PARSON. PARSON, these things in thy possessing A Chrysostom to smooth thy band in. He that has these, may pass his life, ; Toast Church and Queen, explain the News, Pray heartily for some new Gift, And shake his head at Doctor S-t. 1 First published in the "Miscellanies as an Imitation of Martial. 2 i.e., October ale and shag tobacco. 3 The Burial fee. Compare Dunciad i. 231, and note. The allusion to Bland would 10 15 20 seem to show that this Imitation must have been written about the same time as the "Dunciad." He here imitates what he calls in the Second Versification of Donne, Swift's closer style.' EPIGRAMS AND INSCRIPTIONS. FROM THE GRUB STREET JOURNAL.' I. EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY SEEING SOME SHEETS OF DR. BENTLEY'S EDITION OF Din Milton's prose, O Charles, thy death defend ?? On Milton's verse does Bentley comment ?-Know While he but sought his author's fame to further, II. EPIGRAM. SHOULD D-s' print, how once you robb'd your brother 1 "The Grub Street Journal" was begun in 1730, and continued till 1738. Pope disclaimed all connection with it (see Epistle to Arbuthnot, v. 378), but he certainly wrote in it under the signature "A.," as appears from the Epitaph on Mr. Digby, which was published in it, and as might easily be guessed from the subjects and the style of many of the following epigrams. 2 In the Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, 1649. 3 i.e., Dennis. |