...remarkable Instance of God's Forgiveness. ' y ON A VERY WICKED MAN, Who was killed by a fall from his horse. BETWIXT the stirrup and the ground Mercy I ask'd, Mercy I found. " ".• . i-li ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, Aged twenty-one. f HERB lies a youth (ah wherefore breathless...

...sympathy with Pierre. " Inter pocula et labra," replied the friar—" or as the vulgar give it — 'Twist cup and lip there's many a slip, as you found to your...Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd, mercy J found— although it is better rendered in Latin upon one who slipped from a bridge and was drowned—"...

...said, " He eats too much, a In repeating this epitaph Johnson improved it. The original runs thus : Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd, mercy I found. — MALOXE. b Upon this objection the reverend Mr. Ralph Churton, fellow of Brazennose college, Oxford,...

...couplet, on a man of unrighteous life, who died suddenly, in consequence of a fall from his horse : — " Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd — mercy I found." Dr. Johnson has quoted this, but with an alteration, by no means improving the original. His own epitaph...

...misericordia Domini inter pontem et/ontem" : My friend judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee : Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd, mercy I found. INSTABILITY OF EARTHLY POSSESSIONS (7th Century, 62). Wealth, honour, friends, wife, children, kindred,...

...Mag., 1788, p. 801.] ' In repeating this epitaph, Johnson improved it. The original runs thus : — " Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd, mercy I found." — M. 1 Upon this objection the Rev. Mr Ralph Churton, fellow of Brazennose College, 3xfcrt, baa favoured...

..."The Bridge of Sighs." CM— In answer to query in May BOOK NEWS as to the author of the quotation, " Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found." would say it is by William Camden, but said to have been altered by Johnson to read: " Between the...