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"This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen While Folly glares at length."

January 1, 1970

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Epigram on the portrait of Beau Nash placed between the busts of Pope and Newton in the Pump Room at Bath, England. Attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield by Dr. Matthew Maty in his Memoirs of Chesterfield, Section IV, prefixed to second ed. of Miscellaneous Works of the Earl of Chesterfield. Locker-Lampson credits only four of the lines of the whole epigram to Chesterfield. Jane Brereton given credit for them. (See poems. 1744.) A copy of the poems of Henry Norris (1740) in the

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Epigram on the portrait of Beau Nash placed between the busts of Pope and Newton in the Pump Room at Bath, England. Attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield by Dr. Matthew Maty in his Memoirs of Chesterfield, Section IV, prefixed to second ed. of Miscellaneous Works of the Earl of Chesterfield. Locker-Lampson credits only four of the lines of the whole epigram to Chesterfield. Jane Brereton given credit for them. (See poems. 1744.) A copy of the poems of Henry Norris (1740) in the