Memoirs of the Wesley Family: Collected Principally From Original ..., volume 1
Memoirs of the Wesley Family: Collected Principally From Original ..., volume 1
Adam Clarke
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The ingenuity of a husband- man is not tried by a soil that is fruitful to his hand, but hj so manuring a barren soil as to make it fat and fruitfiil. Let me have noble thoughts from barren subjects, rather than useless ones from great ; a small tree bearing a great deal of fruit, rather than a great tree with little but leaves. Give me an Iliad in a nutshell, for I hate *a great cry and little wooL'" To this work there was prefixed a portrait, to the knees, of a youth (the author), crowned wit...h laurel, writing at a table ; on his forehead a maggot, and imder- neath these verses : — In his own defence the author writes. Because when this foul maggot bites He neV can rest in quiet : Which makes him make so sad a fSace, He'd beg your worship or your grace, Unsight, unseen, to buy it. «*It is to be regretted," says Mr. Grainger, who de- d by Google S. WESLET, RECTOR OF EPWORTH. 116 scribes this portrait* (vol iv., p. 329), ^' ihat Mr. Samuel Wesley s vein of poetry was not exliausted when he published his MiJiggoU; as he incurred the censure of Garth, in his ' Dispensary,' who severely lashes him in these lines: * Had Wesley nerer aimed in vene to please.
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