...door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. POPE. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end; Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands, Belies his features, nay, extends his hands. POPE. They...

...funerals being then " fashionable " among the well-to-do. Pope alludes to the custom in the lines — " When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who, living, saved a candle's end." The risk and inconvenience of mourners' lights being taken into churches led to the practice being...

...the lightness and ease of Horace with an infusion of Juvenal's deadly bitterness. Such lines as — " When Hopkins dies a thousand lights attend. The wretch who living saved a candle's end ;" " Drag the pi.oud gamester from his gilded ear, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star."...

...interred in St. Mary's, Lichfield, as late as 1891. Pope satirizes this display of funeral lights: — "When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who, living, saved a candle's end." 1688. Sept. 11.—" Sir John Shorter, Knight, in the Ladye Chapel." Sheriff 1675. LORD MAYOR 1687....

...ridiculed. Steele's Funeral, or Grief a la, Mode, remained popular on the stage throughout the century. When Hopkins dies a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living saved a candle's end. POPE, Moral Essays, 3d Epistle. See Walpole's Letters for November 1, 1760, and March 27, 1764, and...

...ridiculed. Steele's Funeral, or Grief a la Mode, remained popular on the stage throughout the century. When Hopkins dies a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living saved a candle's end. POPE, Moral Essayt, 3d Epistle. See Walpole's Letters for November 1, 1760, and March 27, 1764, and...

...worthless, but died worth three hundred thousand pounds," and in The Use of Riches the poet says : " When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end." On his tombstone is engraved, " Here lies the body of John Hopkins, Esq., familiarly known as ' Vulture...

...history; Enough, that virtue filled the space between; Proved, by the ends of being, to have been. 290 When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living saved a candle's end: Shouldering God's altar a vile image stands, Belies his features, nay extends his hands; That live-long...

...the lightness and ease of Horace with an infusion of Juvenal's deadly bitterness. Such lines as — " When Hopkins dies a thousand lights attend. The wretch who living saved a candle's end ;" " Drag the proud gamester from his gilded car, Bare the -mean heart that lurks beneath a star."...

...account for the exacerbation of Pope in the following lines from Epistle III. of his Moral Essays : — " When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living saved a candle's end : Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands, Belies his features, nay, extends his hands ; That live-long...