 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...Peculiar blessings did his life attend, He had no foe, and Camden was his friend. To the memory of SIGNOR FIDO, An Italian of good extraction, Who came into England, Not to bitevuj like most of his countrymen, But to gain an honest livelihood. He huntett not after fame, Yet... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...panegyric with which epitaphs too commonly abound, is happily ridiculed in the following, by Mr. Pope.... " To the Memory OF SIGNIOR FIDO, An Italian of good...Extraction : Who came into England, Not to bite us, like most of his Countrymen, But to gain an honest Livelihood', He hunted not after Fame, Yet acquir'd it... | |
 | 1809 - 570 pages
...and direct apposition. Such is the epitaph written by Mr. Pope on a monument in lord Cobham's garden: To the memory Of Signior Fido, An Italian of good...extraction; Who came into England Not to bite us, like most of his countrymtn. But to gain an honest livelihood. He hunted not after fame Yet acquired it;... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...tran-cribed from a monument in Lord Cobham's gardens at Stow in Buckinghamshire. To the Memory of Sicxiou FIDO, An Italian of good extraction ; Who came into England, Not to bite us, like most of bis Countrymen, But to gain an honest Livelihood. lie hunted not after Fame, Yet acquir'd it... | |
 | 1832 - 712 pages
...Regiiler ami Sporting Magazine,) INSCRIPTION IN EARL TEMPLE'S GARDENS AT STOWE. To the Memory of Signer Fido, An Italian of good extraction; Who came into England, Not to bite us, like most of his countrymen, But to gain an honest livelihood. He hunted not after fame, Yet acquired it:... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 356 pages
...Italian friend, was, doubtless, well-deserved, though savoring of panegyric : To the memory of SIGNOR FIDO, an Italian of good extraction, who came into England not to bite us? like most of his' countrymen, but to gain an honest livelihood. He hunted not after fame, yet acquired it.... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1921 - 524 pages
...of the wall of a Mausoleum in Lord Cobham's gardens at Stow, Bucks : — To the memory | of SIGNOR FIDO | an Italian of good extraction | who came into England | not to bite us like most of his Country men | but to gain an honest livelihood | He hunted not after fame | yet acquired... | |
 | Stephanie Ross - 2001 - 304 pages
...following poem which occurs on the back of Stowe's Temple of British Worthies? To the memory of Signor Fido an Italian of good Extraction; who came into England not to bite us, like most of his Countrymen, but to gain an honest Livelihood. He hunted not after Fame, yet acquired it,... | |
 | 1747 - 454 pages
...Waiter Rileigb, Sir Fraacit monument: Draht, John Hampden, Sir 'John To the MEM o R т OF SIGIÎIOR FIDO, An Italian of good extraction ; Who came into...bite us, like moft of his countrymen ; But to gain an honed livelyhood. • He hunted not after fame, Yet acquir'd it. Regardlefs of the praife of his friedds... | |
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FIDO, An Italian of good Extraction ; Who came into England, Not to bite us, like moft of his Countrymen, But to gain an honefl Livelihood, He hunted not after Fame, Yet acquired it; Regardlefs of the Praife of his Friends, But moft fenfible of their... 
