which gave occasion for the following epigram said to have been written by Dr Swift:

Some say that Signior Bononcini Compared to Handel's a meer ninny; Others aver, that to him Handel Is scarcely fit to hold the candle. Strange! that such high disputes should be 'Twixt Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee.

There is one opera (Italian) published, with his name prefixed to it, intitled Pharnaces; but whether the words, or only the music, are his composition, is uncertain; and indeed, in the general, the language of those pieces written merely for musical representation, is so extremely paltry, and so opposite to every thing that can be deemed poetry, that the greatest compliment that can be paid to the authors of them is, to suffer their names to lie buried in the shades of obscurity.or BONOSIACI, an ancient branch of Adoptionists, in the fourth century, denominated from their leader Bonofus, a bishop of Macedonia. The Bonosiani were prior to the Feliciani, and even to Nestorius; whence some rather consider them as a branch of Arians. They allowed Christ to be no otherwise the Son of God than by adoption.