Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, And of the Court of Queen Anne 1
Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, And of the Court of Queen Anne 1
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It would be presumptuous to say of the man whom Addison extolled, and whom Steele described, (in a dedication be it remem- bered,) as " the greatest of living poets,"* that he had, as Swift said of Lord Sunderland, but an " understanding of the middling size." But he was, as Pope observes, "fed with dedications," though he does not appear, from all accounts, to have been very willing to recompense his flatterers by feeding them in return. As a poli- tician, he was timid and uncertain, because g...overned more by a desire for his own interest, * See Dedication to the fourth volume of Tatler.
z2 340 MEMOIRS OF SARAH than by a fijced principle. His oratory was ener- getic as well as elegant ; but his conduct wanted the vigour which gave expression to his language only. His patronage of literature and of literary men, however it may have been ridiculed, was the most respectable feature in a character which cannot stand the test of examination. His poems, with the exception of two, were written upon public events, in which the views of a politician were mingled with the gallantry of a man of the world.
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It would be presumptuous to say of the man whom Addison extolled, and whom Steele described, (in a dedication be it remem- bered,) as " the greatest of living poets,"* that he had, as Swift said of Lord Sunderland, but an " understanding of the middling size." But he was, as Pope observes, "fed with dedications," though he does not appear, from all accounts, to have been very willing to recompense his flatterers by feeding them in return. As a poli- tician, he was timid and uncertain, because g...overned more by a desire for his own interest, * See Dedication to the fourth volume of Tatler.
z2 340 MEMOIRS OF SARAH than by a fijced principle. His oratory was ener- getic as well as elegant ; but his conduct wanted the vigour which gave expression to his language only. His patronage of literature and of literary men, however it may have been ridiculed, was the most respectable feature in a character which cannot stand the test of examination. His poems, with the exception of two, were written upon public events, in which the views of a politician were mingled with the gallantry of a man of the world.
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