Who lived to die for Tyranny in Rome."
London Chronicle, August 18. 1774.
These lines are headed "An Epitaph intended for General Wolfe." They are signed by E. D.
In the Illustrated London News of Jan. 24 is the popular air known as "General Wolfe's Song," which, according to Sir H. Bishop's "note," is said to have been composed by him the night previous to the battle on the Plains of Abraham.
H. G. D.
Proverb (Vol. iv., p. 239.).
—Fuller defines a proverb "much matter decocted into few words."—Worthies, ch. ii.
R. W. C.