 Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...  Bell's Edition - Page 235by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. ON MR. GAY, In Westminster ЛЫху, 17ЭО. tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and laih the age : Above temptation in a low estate,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...though unavailing sorrow. Pope was equally grieved by the loss of him whom he has characterised an ers Gay was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a handsome monument was erected to his memory by the "Uuke... | |
 | John Graile (of Blickling.) - 1833 - 144 pages
...enthusiasm." His personal qualities were exactly those delineated by POPE in his epitaph on GAY:—- " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, "In wit a MAN, simplicity a CHILD." Moribus ornatus placidis et corde benigno, VIR fnit ingenio, simplicitate PUER. The following little... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 pages
...hid in Night : God said, Let Neivton be ! and all was Light. 743. EPITAPH ON GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...eloquent with case, Intent to reason, or polite to please. 582 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 378 Of manners gentle, of affections mild! In wit a man, simplicity a child. 583 Pope: On Gay. Line 1. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus... | |
 | Association of American Geographers - 1917 - 154 pages
...knowledge was imparted to others, was a striking characteristic of the man. As the poet phrased it : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild : In wit a man, simplicity a child." Even under the stresses that sometimes arose in the early days of the service and indeed in some of... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1912 - 936 pages
...draper's boy a safe niche in the Temple of Fame. It is carved on his tomb in Westminster Abbey : — " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, With native humour tempering virtuous rage Framed to delight at once, and lash the age. Above temptation in a low estate,... | |
 | Elizabeth Christine Cook - 1912 - 302 pages
...May 19, 1737. Pope's epitaph on John Gay's monument at Westminster, containing the well-known lines, Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, is quoted in the Gazette,36 doubtless from The London Magazine of five months before,37 where it is... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1913 - 522 pages
...first eight lines " the adjectives are without any substantive and the epithets without a subject" : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a...virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Lord Orrery, your great admirer, saith the word " mixed " suits not so properly the heroes' busts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1913 - 522 pages
...first eight lines " the adjectives are without any substantive and the epithets without a subject : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a...With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to deliyht at once and lash the age ; Lord Orrery, your great admirer, saith the word " mixed " suits... | |
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