[14] Wife of Lord Mar, who was exiled for his engagement in the abortive rebellion of 1715. [15] Dilke; _Papers, etc._, vol. ii. pp. 354-5. [16] Alexander Pope, b. 1688; d. 1744. Editions of his works are numerous. I name those by Bowles and Roscoe, with that of Elwin and Courthope; see also Dilke's _Papers of a Critic_, Leslie Stephen's _Life_, and notices by Lowell, Minto, and Mrs. Oliphant. [17] Lowell, Professor Minto, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Covington, etc. De Quincey says, "It is the most exquisite monument of playful fancy that universal literature offers." [18] The identity of the house of Pope was destroyed by a lady owner (widow of Dr. Phipps, the Court oculist) in or about 1807. Pope loved landscape gardening and was aided by Kent and Bridgeman. Warburton speaks extravagantly of the poetic graces which he lavished upon his grotto. {52} CHAPTER II The name of Dean Berkeley--an acute and kindly philosopher--engaged our attention in the last chapter. So did that ripe scholar and master of Trinity, Richard Bentley;[1] then came that more saintly Doctor--Isaac Watts, whose Doxologies will long waken the echoes in country churches; we had a glimpse of the gloomy and lurid draperies, with which the muse of Dr. Edward Young sailed over earth and sky; sadly draggled, too, we sometimes found that muse with the stains of earth. We spoke of a Lady--Wortley Montagu--conspicuous for her beauty, for her acquirements, for her vivacity of mind, for her {53} boldness, for her contempt of the convenances of society, and at last, I think, a contempt for the whole male portion of the human race. Then came that keen, discerning, accomplished poet, Alexander Pope, with a brain as strong and elastic as his body was weak and shaky; and who, of all the poets we have encountered since Elizabeth's day, knew best how to give to words their full forces, and how to make them jingle and shine. But the lives of these I have now named, and of those previously brought to your notice[2] overreached the reign of Queen Anne, and dropped off--some in the time of George I., some under his son George II., and others in an early part of the long reign of George III. _From Stuart to Brunswick._