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...Roger D. Lund The College of William & Mary 2003 The Ghosts of Epigram, False Wit, and the Augustan Mode Roger D. Lund Le Moyne College Despite the efforts of Augustan poets...

...: cruel poems about physical defects and disabilities. Few texts could be more alien to current norms about the eighteenth century as an Age of Sensibility. Yet these “deformity poems” were produced in vast quantities and in every conceivable form, from epigrams about squinters, to long and absurdly...

..., Consisting of Tales, Fables, Epigrams, &c. &c. By Nobody . His attribution of his poetry to Nobody was playful, but, in an irony of history, it has turned out to be prophetic. Despite the relative success of this volume — it went through three additional editions in his lifetime — and despite...

... in an Evening, without being greatly disordered in his Understanding.3 This reputation for naughtiness went hand in hand with a reputation for wittiness. In 1730, a collection of epigrams and short poems by Westmin- ster boys entitled Lusus Westmonasterienses (“playful things from Westmin- ster...

... confess it, though it be true.6 These epigrams found a place in the miscellany world through the popular tradition of the jest-book: the lame beggar’s pun appears in 1727 (A Col- lection of Epigrams, reprinted 1735), 1752 (The Sports of the Muses), 1754 (The Merry Fellow), and 1759 (The Book...

..., Select Epitaphs edited by William Toldervy (1755), prints the Gray poem with other epitaphs to the playwright, and A New Select Collection of Epitaphs (1775) sets it along- side Milton’s “Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.” In editions of The Festoon: A Collection of Epigrams, Ancient...

... states of the first volume of The Foundling Hospi- tal for Wit, both dated 1743. The typesetting of the two title-pages is dif- ferent: “Epigrams” in 1743a (figure 1) is hyphenated in 1743b.2 The orna- ments have changed: 1743a features a double cornucopia between single and double ­border-​lines...

... involved breaking long poems or verse dramas into bite-size gobbets that could be repurposed as moral apothegms, witty epigrams, or set-pieces designed for performance. Moreover, though some authors developed distinctive reputations (Rochester, for example, becom- ing closely associated...

...! (Mr. Hayley, that is you) — ​ Ma’am, you carry all before you, Trust me, Litchfield Swan, you do. Ode didactic, epic, sonnet, Mr. Hayley, you’re divine! — ​ Ma’am, I’ll take my oath upon it, You alone are all the nine! Richard Porson’s 1787 epigram mocks the ways...

... Davis in 1738.32 If one turns to more literary evidence, John Gay used a fitting quotation from Pliny’s Epistles as the epigram for his poem “To Bernard Lintot,” which appeared at the head of Lintot’s 1712 Miscellaneous Poems and Translations.33 Pliny’s epistle accompanies a miscellany...

... in generic discrimination) decided to arrange the pieces not 9 6 Eighteenth-Century Life chronologically but according to genre: epistles, satires, elegies and epitaphs, epigrams, occasional verse, shorter translations, the two major works already mentioned, embedded original verse, and verses in Latin...

... and Genre, Theory and Practice     1 3 3 Some, like novels, by taking on new subjects. Others, like satire, by taking on forms appropriated from other kinds. Some, like the backwards-­looking elegy, evolve slowly. Others, like the forward-­looking essay, are in constant motion. Epigrams...

... to Sir William Trumbull, Fulham, 6 May 1709, BL, Add. MSS 72494, fol. 113. Trumbull summed up his view of these rumors in his endorsement of this letter, citing Martial, Epigram 10:30, ll. 26 – 27, which extols the virtues of country life in comparison with life in the city: “Quot Formianos imputat...

... are replaced in the 1744 volume. In the original impression, page 31 starts with some inoffensive epigrams, but the first contender for censorship is an imitation of Horace (book 4, ode 13), which casts “Bubo” (William Pulteney, the Earl of Bath) as Horace’s once beautiful and now drunken woman...

...), 289–90; A collection of epigrams. To which is Prefix’d, A Critical Dissertation on this Species of Poetry (London: J. Waltoe, 1727), sig.K2; and Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1765), 1:220. 25.  Poems on Affairs of State, 4 vols., (London, 1707), 4:205–44...

..., unpublished standard English poem “Conscience, an Epigram imitated from Ramsay’s Evergreen.” Beattie’s own opinion of Ramsay is made clear in the letter to Blacklock just cited: In a collection of this kind I would propose to admit nothing except what is written in the genuine Scotch...

... of the text and lends another level of order and stability to the collection. The euphony of the poems, which are predominantly classical in form—odes, elegies, epistles, and epigrams—is echoed in this balanced structure. The editorial voice is quiet and unobtrusive. Here, enlightenment is to be found...

... to the Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets (London: F. Cogan, 1750), 28–29, and to Jonathan Swift, in The Festoon: A Collection of Epigrams (London: Robinson and Roberts, 1766), 111–22. 5.  The misattribution to which Nichols refers is in A Supplement to Dr. Swift’s Works (London: W. Bowyer...

... Harington’s “Epigram 66: Of Galla’s Goodly Petiwigge” [based on Martial], from The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harington (London: by G. P. for John Budge, 1618): “You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares, / ‘Tis certain her own hair, who would haue thought it / She sweares it is her...

... the nonmimetic representation of the library to its logical extreme. Rather than represent- ing a library with an exact correspondence between catalog and stacks, the image represents the library as an ideal summed up by the Horatian epigram on the engraving, “Lectorum delectando pariterque momendo...