And sham’d the pomp of ostentatious verse,
Shall Shakespeare’s honours by himself be paid,
And Nature perish ere his pictures fade.
Ferney: An Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire. 1768. Poetical Works, 1781, pp. 136-7.
Raphael’s Own Creation:—The Transfiguration, that well-known picture of Raphael, was carried before his body to the grave, doing more real honour to his memory than either his epitaph in the Pantheon, the famous distich of Cardinal Bembo, or all the other adulatory verses written on the same occasion.—Keate.
DAVID GARRICK, 1769
(1717-1779)
“Warwickshire.”
Ye Warwickshire lads, and ye lasses,
See what at our Jubilee passes;