Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/799
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    867 Wo.rr (Major General James) INSCRIrTION FOR WoLF [sic]: What Epitaph, or Monumental Pile, Sacred to Gratitude, and Martial Fame, Worthy of Wolf, & worthy of this Isle, Shall tell his Actions & record his name? The Nations Glory is thy Monument, The Adamantine Pillars, Publick Good, The Ample Base the “Western Continent, This Epitaph is written in my Blood! * America the conquest of which was fix’d by ye Battle where he lost his Life. : on 1 p. 8vo, the first 4 lines are scored through but are legible, with a portrait 868 SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley) Obk 10 THE AUTHOR OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: It is a shame Young Sheridan, And ne’er will be forgot; With more of Wit than falls to man, With Characters, & plot. ‘That you should dare to mount Ye Stage And fascinate the Town; A Suckling Poet of your age To Seize the laurel Crown? with 4 other stanzas, on 2 pp. 4to 869 HamiLTon (Sir William) THE CHARRADER’S RECANTATION 110 SR. Wititm. Haminron. Five stanzas, 20 lines, on 2 pp. 4to, inztrals, containing a number of corrections 870 Upon LORD SPENSER’S ILLNESS. Hight stanzas, each of 4 lines, on 2 pp. 4to, the last verse runs: Fly where the hearts of all rejoice, From morn to setting sun— The gates are open take your choice Althrop to Wimbleton. 871 ‘,PITAPH VOR LORD SPENCER'S LOPPER, ‘TOPPER AND SWEEPER OF GARDEN, signed ). G., 8 lines, on 1 p. 4to , 872 Avro. VERSE of 4 lines, on small 4to page: Tis true, as some say, That to Death from our birth, Good & Evil are ballanc’d to mortals on earth; For the debt that was due from ye castle of Warwick With Intr’st is paid by Mount Edgcumbe to Garrick. UPON GIVING A PRINT OF MYSELF TO THE BARon D’HOLBACK w 9, eee id) AT PARIS, 1 p. 8vo Mortals like me who lightly touch the mind, To be remember’d leave their prints behind, Whilst those like Holback have a happier lot, Tho out of sight, they never are forgot.