Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 1 (of 3)Walpole, Horace
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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 1 (of 3)
Walpole, Horace
Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760
Soon shall thy soul, once more with virtue fraught,
With kind and generous truth thy bosom warm,
And thy fair mind, like thy fair person, charm.
To virtue thus and to thyself restor’d,
By all admir’d, by one alone ador’d,
Be to thy Harry ever kind and true,
And live for him who more than died for you.
(_Vide page 356._)
The reader will find a very ludicrous anecdote relating to Mr.
Nugent, during his election at Bristol, in a letter from our Author
to Richard Bentley, Esq., dated July 9th, 1754. It is printed in
the publication of his correspondence with that gentleman, but we
do not venture to insert it here.
END OF VOL. I.
T. C. Savill, Printer, 4, Chandos-street, Covent-Garden.
FOOTNOTES:
[252] The Princess.
[253] Allen, Lord Bathurst.
[254] Sir George Lyttelton, who was out of favour with the Prince,
made a parody on this copy of verses: two of the lines were,
No--’tis that all-consenting tongue,
That never puts me in the wrong.
[255] “This is a strange country, this England” (said his Royal
Highness once); “I am told Doddington is reckoned a clever man; yet
I got 5000_l._ out of him this morning, and he has no chance of
ever seeing it again.”
[256] His house is since called Brandenburgh House.
[257] I found this song in an old pocket-book belonging to my
father, who wrote it, as he told me himself, when he was a very
young man, on a sister of Sir William Carew.
[258] This was written on a common woman whom Lord Bolingbroke took
into keeping, and who, many years afterwards, sold oranges in the
Court of Requests.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example,
Nova-Scotia, Nova Scotia; goodnature, good-nature; Lord-Lieutenant,
Lord Lieutenant; se’nnight; disculpate; unapt; deficience; altercate;
preponderated.
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