epitaph-shop

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But since it is an unquestionable fact that we are thus totally depraved in taste and feeling, why don't some of our bards, to whom the Muse has not been propitious in other departments of metrical composition, and who, to be blunt, are good for nothing else, such as , or , and many others you know, come out here among the marble-cutters and open an epitaph-shop?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860