"Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who."

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

"I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell."

Laconics.

"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."

Laconics.

"In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here.""

Laconics.

"All jargon of the schools."

I am that I am. An Ode.

"Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight."

To the Hon. Charles Montague.

"From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise."

To the Hon. Charles Montague.

"Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?"

A Better Answer.

"Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind."

An English Padlock.

"That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they."

Hans Carvel.

"The end must justify the means."

Hans Carvel.

"And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive."

Paulo Purganti.

"They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think."

Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.

"That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less."

Henry and Emma.

"Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, but was loth to depart."

The Thief and the Cordelier.

"Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?"

Epitaph. Extempore.

"Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven."

Charity.

"His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach."

Alma. Canto ii. Line 7.

"Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em."

Alma. Canto iii. Line 13.

"Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came."

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book ii. Line 364.

"For hope is but the dream of those that wake."

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 102.

"Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born."

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 240.

"A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale."

The Wandering Pilgrim.

"We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow."

Verses to his Friend under Affliction.

"Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes."

Verses to his Friend under Affliction.

"I 've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood."

Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6.

"So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns."

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

"Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature."

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

"So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum."

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

"Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em."

Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach.

"A college joke to cure the dumps."

Cassinus and Peter.

"'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."

Cadenus and Vanessa.

"Hail fellow, well met."

My Lady's Lamentation.

"Big-endians and small-endians."

Gulliver's Travels. Part i. Chap. iv. Voyage to Lilliput.

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."

Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Chap. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag.

"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers."

Gulliver's Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa.

"It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first."

Tale of a Tub. Dedication.

"Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship."

Tale of a Tub. Preface.

"Bread is the staff of life."

Tale of a Tub. Preface.

"Books, the children of the brain."

Tale of a Tub. Sect. i.

"As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails."

Tale of a Tub. Sect. vii.

"He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat."

Tale of a Tub. Sect. xi.

"How we apples swim!"

Brother Protestants.

"The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light."

Battle of the Books.

"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."

Letter to Miss Vanbromrigh, Aug. 12, 1720.

"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."

Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729.