For what is understood by fame, To paint a Hero, we inquire OITRO JUT Would you describe Turenne or Trump? Are these too low?-then find out grander, Tis well but boo since we live among Pilsalt to First, then, our author has defin'deillor ins So, when the war has rais'd a storm, "All this we grant-why then look yonder. Further, we are by Pliny told, This serpent is extremely cold; So cold, that put it in the fire, (Whether through rage or love, or both) 9 Which, happening on the skin to light, cold as snow, ni olnbroi She soon would find the same effects, "Then I'll appeal to each bystander, TO THE EARL OF PETERBOROUGH, WHO COMMANDED THE BRITISH FORCES IN SPAIN. MORDANTO fills the trump of fame, The Christian worlds his deeds proclaim, In journies he outrides the post, Sits up till midnight with his host, Talks polities, and gives the toast. Knows every prince in Europe's face, Flies like a squib from place to place, And travels not, but runs a race. From Paris gazette a-la-main, This day's arriv'd, without his train, Mordanto in a week from Spain. A messenger comes all a-réek Mordanto at Madrid, to seek; a week. He left the town above a goido not hub schic 999 on denw all visual Next day the postboy winds his horn, And rides through Dover in the morn Mordanto's landed from Leghorn. Mordanto gallops on alone, : The roads are with his followers strown, His body active as his mind, Returning sound in limb and wind, Except some leather lost behind. A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, So wonderful his expedition, Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar: Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, ON THE UNION. [Swift's hatred to the Scottish nation led him to look upon the Union with great resentment, as a measure degrading to England. The Scottish themselves hardly detested the idea more than he did; and that is saying as much as possible.] THE queen has lately lost a part *. The motto on Queen Anne's coronation medal.-N. Who ever yet a union saw Of kingdoms without faith or law?* OR, THE RECEIpt to form a BEAUTY, † 1708. [This elegant compliment led to numerous silly imitations, which causes Swift to put a caution in Apollo's Edict to the Poets: "With females' compounds I am cloy'd, Which only pleased in Biddy Floyd." WHEN Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat * i. e. Differing in religion and law. + The following elegant Latin version of this "Receipt" was first printed in the sixth volume of Dryden's Miscellanies : |