If you say this was made for friend Dan, you belie it,
I'll swear he's so like it that he was made by it.
ON DEAN SWIFT'S PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS
Great wits to madness nearly are allied,
This makes the Dean for kindred THUS provide.
TO A DUBLIN PUBLISHER.
Who displayed a bust of Dean Swift in his window, while publishing
Lord Orrery's offensive remarks upon the Dean.
Faulkner! for once thou hast some judgment shown,
By representing Swift transformed to stone;
For could he thy ingratitude have known,
Astonishment itself the work had done!
WHICH IS WHICH. BYRON.
"God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender!
God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender.
But who that pretender is, and who that king,
God bless us all, is quite another thing."
ON SOME LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEGA. DR. JOHNSON.
If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.
ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH.
Placed between the busts of Newton and Pope.
LORD CHESTERFIELD