...subject." "When we recollect Swift's anticipation of the effect of his own death among his friends, " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day," this expression of the grief of the Duchess of Queensberry, so long after the loss of her friend, is...

...how amiably she took it. Upon the same principle, he tells us in the verses on his death, that Friend Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. This was to vex them, and make them prove his words false by complaining of their injustice. He himself...

...Pope must bear, as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and...drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I 'm sorry — but we all must die! ' Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind...

...Pope must bear, as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and...shrug, and cry : " I'm sorry — but we all must die !" Why do we grieve that friends should die I No loss more easy to supply. One year is past ; a different...

...worthy friend, no poor relation? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood!.... Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day.... My female friends, whose tender hearts Have belter learned to act their parts, Receive the news in...

...Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John3 himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and...

..." His other friend, the Dean of St. Patrick's, in his poem On the Death of Dr. Swift, writes — " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Ar'buthnot a day " ; yet the same piece contains the couplet — " Arbuth'not U no more my friend, Who dares to irony...

...friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! " . . . Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learu'd to act their parts, Receive the news...

...friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! " . . . Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn 'd to act their parts, Receive the news...

...Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those T love ray death lament. 'd profuse, their piercing genius plann'd And swell'd ihe pomp of peace their faithful R " I 'm sorry — but we all must die !" Inditterence, clad in wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind...