Wortley the Wortleys a Lecture Delivered Before the Sheffield Literary And P
Wortley the Wortleys a Lecture Delivered Before the Sheffield Literary And P
Mrs Alfred Gatty
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He wrote a book at this period, called " Refle6lions on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics, Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain, " and this pleased his father; indeed, he seemed, like Falstaff, inclined to " purge and live cleanly " for the rest of his days. But "confidence, " said Lord Chatham, " is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom ;" and Mr. Wortley was not deceived by appearances, but wholly dis- inherited his son in favour of his daughter, the Countess of Bute. The ...following sketch, from the caustic and unfavourable pen of Horace Walpole, pourtrays the aged father, in his rude lodge at Wharncliffe, whilst rebuilding the hall, four years before his death, which took place in 1761, when he was eighty years old : — " Old Wortley Montagu lives on the very spot where the dragon of Wantley did, only I believe 28 the latter was much better lodged : you never saw such a wretched hovel ; lean, unpainted, and half its nakedness barely shaded with hareteen, stretched till it cracks.
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