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1. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

First Line:
An epigram that's new sharp near and witty
Last Line:
Once common though still good they are neglected
DMI number:
43775

2. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

First Line:
Arise ye glimmering stars of wit
Last Line:
For lo the sun of verse is set
DMI number:
25174

3. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:
Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:
Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:
9446

4. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:
Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:
He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:
27959

5. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

First Line:
Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song
Last Line:
The muses and the virtues tune thy mind
Author:
Richard Savage (Confident)
DMI number:
13091

6. Great wits do not live many days

First Line:
Great wits do not live many days
Last Line:
But thou o laureate live for ever
DMI number:
24800

7. Invectives we too oft at others throw

First Line:
Invectives we too oft at others throw
Last Line:
Nor spoke to Fuller more in all his life
DMI number:
24681

8. My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is

First Line:
My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is
Last Line:
Scriptus et in tergo nec dum finitus Orestes
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35385

9. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:
If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:
As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3605

10. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

First Line:
If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
Last Line:
To file the rust of wit from P----ck's sense
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3583