Church-Yard Gleanings, AND EPIGRAMMATIC SCRAPS: BEING A COLLECTION OF REMARKABLE Epitaphs and Epigrams, COMPILED FROM THE MOST ANCIENT AS WELL AS MODERN SERIOUS AND FACETIOUS: TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, Some Observations on Churches, Church-Yards, Rites of WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASCERTAINING THE DATES OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS. BY WILLIAM PULLEYN. "We read their Monuments-we sigh, and, while લાઇ "Better to have a bad Epitaph when dead, than their ill report while "How does the little Epigram delight, And charm us with its miniature of wit! LONDON: PRINTED FOR SAMUEL MAUNDER, NEWGATE STREET. 1829. 290. INTRODUCTION. IF the minstrel may presume on success, where fiction frames his lay-if the author may calculate on laurels, who wields a prolific pen-perhaps, he who is a gatherer of the "longings after immortality," and their Epigrammatic sisterhood, may be allowed to encourage a hope, that his endeavours to please will not prove wholly unsuccessful. By the serious-minded, much will be found in this small volume, that will accord with their feelings; by the curious, much that is interesting; and by the lovers of Epigrammatic wit, a selection of the choicest morceaux. The gay and thoughtless, the ambitious and worldlyminded, may also find in it matter for serious and humiliating reflection, while all may derive |