One Principal Characteristic Of Vice

As To Posterity, I May Ask What Has It Ever Done To Oblige Me?

Scatter Plenty O'er A Smiling Land.

And Weep The More, Because I Weep In Vain.

Now As The Paradisiacal Pleasures Of The Mahometans Consist In Playing Upon The Flute And Lying With Houris, Be Mine To Read Eternal New Romances Of Marivaux And Crebillon.

Here Rests His Head Upon The Lap Of Earth, A Youth To Fortune And To Fame Unknown: Fair Science Frown'd Not On His Humble Birth, And Melancholy Mark'd Him For Her Own.