St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-07-22

replied:
" Thou can'st hurt mans fame with thy i'll word
Thy pen Is full as harmless as thy sword"
DIR. Young, author of Might Thoughts,
made an epigram on Voltaire or rather an
cpigram was current in his time, which was
generally attributed to him. Voltare had
ridiculed Milton's allegory of 'Sin and Death,
and Young said:
"YoI are so witty, prnfigate, and thin,
Al once think thee Milton, Death and sin! !"
At the mention of Pope, our readers will
recall the well known words engraved on the
collar Of a dog
~ am his hghur@,' dog at krcw
Fray tell me, sir, whose dog areyou."
Also that other still more famous
Strange all this difference should he,
'Twixt Tweedle dun and Twecdle.dee."
The wit of the following is somewhat marked
by its bluntncsS If the same idea could have
been dclicatcIv hintcd, rather than rudely ex-
pressed. the stanZ, would be more to he ad-
mircd 1t is on Mrs lofts, an avariciOus
opera singer
So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song,
As had drawn both the hcat and their Orphcs along
b, such Is thy Nvarioc, aud such Is thy pride,
That the beasts must have starry and the poet have do!
The following was borrowed tor stolen) from
Prior
Sir, admit your general rule
That every poet is fool
But you yourself may serve tn show it,
That every fool is moi a poet"
William Broome, who, with Fenton, assisted
Pope in the translation of the Odyssey, elected
the following from Henley, one OF Pope's enc
mics
Z" Pope came OF clear with Hover bu, they say
Broome went before and kindly swept the way"
Here is one by Dean Swift in which the
satire is as sharp as the carving-kniGe which it
suggests
glove the living learned fed,
And raised the scientific head
oUr frugal queen, u her meat
Exats the heads that cannot eat -
He wrote also another having some con-
nection with the above:
" Her Majesty never shall be my cxaltcr
And yet she would raise me, know, by halter :"
He has left several epigrams on windows.
The following was on :. Window at the
Four Crosses in the Waiting street Road, War
wickshre
Fool, to put up four crosses at your door -
Put up your wife she's crasser than all four -
Another window, at Chester was honored
by the following inscription
/" The church and clergy here, no doubt,
Are very near akin
But weather beaten without,
And empty both within"
Here is one ridiculing an Irish bill for build
ing fort in a place where none is needed:
Behold proof of Irish scnsc;
Here Irish wit is seen
when nothing's left that's worth defence,
We build a magaznc!'
Among his epigrammatic Twelve Arti-
cles " are the following
When paradox you stick to,
| will never contradict you.
| When your speeches absurd
viii ne or object a word
You shall never hear me thunder,
When you bander on, and blunder.
| Never will Ii give advice
| Till you please TO ask me thrice;
Which If you in soorn reject,
Twill be just as expect"
The satiric dean pointed one of his best ar
rows at a Mr.. Carthy, who had published a
translation of Horace, with the original Latin
in the same volume. He represents Mr.. Cur,
thy as saying
81 This may boast, which few e'er could,
| Hay Of my book at lea-t is good "
The translation Of Horace, thus rdiCuled
did not prove to be very popular, and Carthy
is said to have knocked out some teeth from
his newsboy for saying he could not live b,
the profit of the books, fol- they did not sell. ,
The dean accordingly brought Carthy agair
to the confessional, as follows
81 must confess that was somewhat warm
broke his teeth but where's the mighty harmr
My work, he said, did e'er afford him meat,
And teeth useless where there's nought To eat
He thus describes the 81 Blessings of Countr,
Life a"
| '' Free from our debtors
No Dublin letters
| Not seen by our betters."
He once intended to found hospital fo
idiots and lunaties, which called out from
some of his friends an epigram at his expense
1t is founded on well known Latin proverb
"Great wits TO madness nearly allied
This makes the Dean for kindred thus provide"