We fabricated and applied
To every cause which could be tried.
Oft have I quench’d man’s vital spark:
“The soul’s old cottage,” cold and dark,
Again, in spite of death, our grand ill,
Illumed as one would light a candle.[25]
Display’d a mode in Latin thesis
To pick the human frame to pieces;
The parts deposit by themselves,
Like mineral specimens on shelves;—