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[The twenty-one ‘Original Epigrams’ following were printed in the Morning Post, in September and October, 1802, over the signature ‘ΕΣΤΗΣΕ.’ They were included in Essays, &c., iii. 978-86, and were first collected in P. and D. W., 1877, ii. 171-8.]

What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.