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She will say things worthy of a French epigrammatist, and act like a robin in a greenhouse. But I think we will send for Dr. Granson there can be no harm. A man was straightway despatched on horseback to Castle Boterel, and the gentleman known as Dr. Granson came in the course of the afternoon.
But when he read that 'Vice is the foundation of all virtue, that 'Self-sacrifice is the quintessence of selfishness, and that 'The Good of Evil outweighs the Evil of Good, he felt that he could do much better with his boots, even if he only employed them to kick the epigrammatist.
Facit indignatio versum, he truly says of his own work; with far less flexibility, he has all the remorselessness of Swift. That singular product of the last days of paganism, the epigrammatist Palladas of Alexandria, is the only ancient author who shows the same spirit.
The reprint of the Anatomy of Melancholy. This reprint was, I think, published in 1800, in two volumes, marked ninth edition. Lamb's copy was dated 1621, quarto. I do not know where it now is. Malone. A Gentleman's Magazine epigrammatist, sharing Lamb's view, wrote:
Who was the author of it is not known with certainty; but it is possible that the writer of it was John Heywood, the epigrammatist and court-jester. See Dramaturgic oder Theorie und Geschichte der dramatischen Kunst, von Theodore Mundt, vol i, p. 809. All was quiet in the palace of Whitehall.
In France he would have been a great epigrammatist, like Hugo. In England he is a punster. There was nothing at least in this group I have loosely called the Eccentrics that disturbs the general sense that all their generation was part of the sunset of the great revolutionary poets.
At this Jim's chief engineer laughed heartily. "That would be true doctrine enough for my native town of New York," he said. "Well, howsumever, Captain Broome don't need any title. He keeps what he has and takes what he hasn't." "You are an epigrammatist, Jim," said Berwick, smiling. "Won't I ever outgrow it?" asked Jim anxiously. "No, you will get worse as you become older," declared his friend.
Sir Robert Peel was no satirist or epigrammatist: he was only a statesman in public life: only a virtuous and friendly man in private. Par negotiis, nee supra. Walpole alone possessed his talents for business.
By one of the curious accidents of literary history Martial, as the only Latin epigrammatist who left a large mass of work, gave a meaning to the word epigram from which it is only now beginning to recover. The art, practised with such infinite grace by Greek artists of almost every age between Solon and Justinian, was just at this period sunk to a low ebb.
Even late in life, he ingeniously alluded to his first occupation, for we find an epigram of his in sending a knife for a new-year's gift, "informing his friend, that should this present appear to come rather from Vulcan than from Minerva, it should not surprise, for," adds the epigrammatist, "it was from the cavern of the Cyclops I began to direct my footsteps towards Parnassus."
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