| Show I ElWHA lS An All Art Alt In Which tho Writers Excel Excelled led The soul of ot wit we wc told toM Is bre brevity breIt brevit ity It Time The soul of at the time epigram Is II wit witA wi wItA A genuine epigram la It 1 like a diamond of the tIme water ter cut and amid polished and nd at nt every is In infinItely finItely more moore ore rare Our poets 1 dont writs wr nowadays s Is la It that they time the lack lackin lackIn lackIn in wit wi Perhaps It Is that In the fever l IRh h rush of ot modern liCe they lack iak In k th this anti and are ar losing Ic ln time the th capacity til tm tl bor long bug lon over little It for Cur the time epigram bore all thIng must possess lore ni an nn Infinite capacity for tor taking pains time the was merely an In Inset Its Us name MIne Implies on ol ston stano often oren a tombstone or any votive otlo or tablet or building that required nn tin explanation of ot Its lis Is ex cx Time The he example of ot the tho prim primitive Greek k Is I perhaps that written n by the tho poet to com time the fall tal of or the tIme heroes of at Stranger tell tel the that thit we are Iro lying here In obedience to t their laws The Time simple grandeur of oC this utter utterance uter ance Is unsurpassable By Uy nn an easy transition the term torm epigram was gradually extended to tIme the concise o expression on in verse erse chiefly elegiac of ot pome some one thought or con conception which might servo serve lero for tor an nn In Inscription though not lot written expressly for tor that purpose Such a one omme Is IB that by on poet and athlete of ot Having eaten much and drunk much anti sold said ld much mich evil of or other morn men len here I lie II of ot The Time sarcasm displayed ell eci here Is quite an nn exceptional feature and tho tIme unexpected turn for the prototype of time the modern which charac characterise tense terise the time modern epigram are not to b lt ht found In time the th Greek original the time great charm of which Is that Indefinable sun Aim simplicity fn so remarkable In nil all al ancient Greek art It l Is Ii I to Koman Homan literature that we must turn tur for the tIme prototype of or the mod mol modern modem ern or em epigram and we find It In the tho terse ter e pointed and often orten wicked Irked verse re of or Martini Martial In his lime hands hand It I became brame ri n weapon a 1 fiery dart wherewith to Irk his Imle enemies and ever since It I has hns served Ir l as 88 a n convenient vehicle for tor so social social cial cOil satire anti and personal Invective Slat more mOr than puns pulls PUI with wih but time tho tw genuine epigram eJI glowing with wHim wih the sparkle and heat of true truo wit wi Is woe woefully fully CUl fUll rare flitS antI and do does n not seem sem to take kindly to roll foi The Time an nn dramatist and Rn lyric poets abound In II Isolated linen have very sery or often oten tho tim true epigrammatic ring hut but It seems to vanish at time the slightest attempt to pre ore preserve serve enl It I In true tru form torm lIen Ben Johnson John n was ivas wal undoubtedly a n wit Wi fl In the tho true trul sense of ot time the word ivoal but he Ito never wrote any genuine epigrams although J a Q whole of ot verse by In him bears that title Martial is the time and Martal II one only master of ot modern epigram pIram and nt at his hi l best est he ims hf will 1 not bear bar br translation tran ln Ion It I will wl be hI w In seen en then that n ii quest of ot the ture tur epigram Is It likely Ikel to prove pre disappointing hut but wo we 0 may find never neer nevertheless theIsts much u h that Is If It not of ot time the verj er best bt at least leA I 1 entertaining and ami at times tm not a 1 lIttle lite In ancient al times practically every t ry was Ins an ane e as l the ancients understood It I this thle Is IJ not nt so now 0 not even ton perhaps Is I time the ancient the conception and certain lv I not In the thu modern sense cense of ot time the term however oven Oel on thi th tombstone we t read math lines of ot a distinctly turn such luch for tor or In M Its II these Stop Sto all RI you who gaze uze on this my humble grave and think an I am sin In eternity anti ami 11 you mire are ar on the brink o are the th lines line II of oC Sir John ton tea tC altogether lacking In t le It ren T r J TT loth ch never ner prosper the U U rU reason For Tor If I son sonA 1 U It I prosper none dare email It trea A last It example from a n modern epi William Watson will wll I saying serve H admirably to point the time oft ot quoted quote Hi it It Is 11 but a step from the time sublime to the th j My friend the apothecary oer the them way wn Doth not nt his hl window Byron Byrons bust dis dla display di play Once J a Harold Harolds voice ol did Eu Europe Europe Europe rope bow bw Ho Io wears a n patent lung luns protector now 1 Paris Pala 1 |
