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...All superfluous are but these. * Ascribed to Dr. Swift, but po?sibly without foundation. N. EPIGRAM* BEHOLD ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ! "When nothing's left, that's worth defence, We build a magazine. TO DR. SWIFT, ON HIS BIRTII-DAY.f WHILE I the godlike men...

...use reserved than show : These are what the Dean do please ; All superfluous are but these. EPIGRAM.* BEHOLD ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine. * The Dean, in his lunacy, had some intervals of sense ;...

..., her interests. This reminded him of the , epigram, said to have been written by Dr. Swift :— " Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine." The queen was to have law officers to de- j fend her...

...any to defend. It reminded him of the following epigram, said to have been written by Dr. Swift :— Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine. If she accepted these terms, she was to have had a bribe...

...This is worth remarking ; my tablets! as Hamlet says ; my tablets ! -memory put: down that." Which produced the following lines, being the last he ever wrote : < ; , "Behold! a proof of Irish sense! „_ . Here Irish wit is seen, When nothing's left, that's worth defence, We build a magazine :" and...

...city. " O," said the dean, " let me take an item of this." He then wrote the following lines — " Behold a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen — When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." And then put up his pocket-book, laughing heartily at the...

...composed, in an interval of his idiocy, upon the erection of a magazine for arms and stores near Dublin. " Behold a proof of Irish sense, — Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine." And he calls himself in his epitaph, strenuum pro virili...

...' my tablets ! Memory, put down that.'" Which produced the following lines, being the last the Dean ever wrote : — " Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." and then put up his pocket-book, laughing heartily at the...