COLLECTION OF EPITAPHS AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, To which is prefixed, AN ESSAY ON EPITAPHS. BY DR. JOHNSON, TWO VOLUMES, VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, & Co. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, FINSBURY SQUARE. 1806. 1/426.40(2), JAN 13 1018 Robert Withington, J. WRIGHT, Printer, EPITAPHS, &c. ON ANDREW T. ANDREW T. Passenger, Stay, Read, Walk, Here Lyeth, LAWYER, NOR USURER, BUT ALL; NOR KINSMAN, NOR FRIEND, NOR BUT ALL UNTO ALL. VOL. II. ON A LYAR. GOOD passenger! here lies one here, "HOLD! pride of Albion! more thou canst not will, "Fate drops the scale-the main is Britain's still! "Thy country safe, unparallel'd thy fame, "Go-seize the crown no hero else can claim.” So spake the Genius of the British shore, That o'er Trafalgar mark'd the battle's roar; Great NELSON's spirit eyed the starry prize, And 'mid a blaze of glory pierc'd the skies. ON THE SAME. LET those who seek, inquisitive of fame, No pompous verse (heroic but in sound) to A 19. Which the whole world has register'd so well, No, the officious Muse in vain would strive |