"Never was a greater mixture of honour, virtue, [_none_] and good sense, in any one person, than in him. A great man, attended with a sweetness of behaviour and easiness of conversation, _which charms all_ who come near him: Nothing of the stiffness of a statesman, yet the capacity and knowledge of a piercing wit. He speaks French and Italian as well as his native language: and, although but one eye, yet he has a very charming countenance, and is the most generally beloved by the ladies of any gentleman in his time. He is turned of forty years old." The little word _none_, within the crotchets, is inserted by Swift. That wit elsewhere describes the duke "as a person of admirable qualities; and, if he were somewhat more active, and less timorous in business, no man would be thought comparable to him."--_Letter to Archbishop King, 20th May, 1712._] [Footnote 25: Mr Malone conjectures the concealed translator may have been Lord Lansdowne, author of the poem which precedes that translation in the Miscellanies.] [Footnote 26: Alluding to a translation of the Third Book of the Georgics, exclusive of the story of Aristæus, which appeared in the third volume of the Miscellanies; by the famous Addison, then of Queen's College, Oxford.] [Footnote 27: The same of whom Dryden elsewhere says, "Guibbons but guesses, nor is sure to save." ] [Footnote 28: Also an eminent physician of the time, ridiculed, in the "Dispensary," under the title of Guiacum.] [Footnote 29: Alluding to his ancient foe, Sir Richard Blackmore. See the "Epistle to Dryden of Chesterton," and the conclusion of the Preface to the Fables.]