Produced by Al Haines ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS Queen Anne and the Georges BY DONALD G. MITCHELL NEW YORK Charles Scribner's Sons MDCCCXCVII Copyright, 1895, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS _By Donald G. Mitchell_ I. from Celt to Tudor II. From Elizabeth to Anne III. Queen Anne and the Georges IV. The Later Georges to Victoria _Each 1 vol., 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50_ AMERICAN LANDS AND LETTERS From the Mayflower to Rip Van Winkel _1 vol., square 12mo, Illustrated, $2.50_ _LETTER OF DEDICATION_ [To Mrs. Grover Cleveland.] MY DEAR MADAM: _Many bookmakers of that early Georgian period covered by this little volume eagerly sought to dignify their opening pages with the name and titles of some high-placed patron or patroness. It is not, my dear Madam, to revive this practice that I have asked permission to inscribe this little book to so worthy an occupant of the Presidential Mansion; but, rather, I have had in mind the courteous reception which--while yet an inmate of a college on the beautiful banks of Cayuga Lake--you once gave to some portions of the literary talk embodied in these pages; and remembering, furthermore, the unswerving dignity, and the unabating womanly gentleness by which you have conquered and adorned the trying conditions of a high career, I have wished to add my applause (as I do now and here) for the grace and kindliness which have ennobled your life, and made us all proud of such an example of American womanhood._ _Very respectfully yours,_ Don^d. G. Mitchell. _Edgewood, June,_ 1895. {vii} _CONTENTS._ CHAPTER I. PAGE An Irish Bishop, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Scholar, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Two Doctors, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Lady Wortley Montagu, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Alexander Pope, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 His Poetic Methods, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Rape of the Lock, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Pope's Homer, and Life at Twickenham, . . . . . . . . . . 43 His Last Days, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 CHAPTER II. From Stuart to Brunswick, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Samuel, Richardson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Harry Fielding, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Poet of the Seasons, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Thomas Gray, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 A Courtier, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Young Mr. Johnson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 {viii} CHAPTER III.