was the shadow of a precedent to be pointed out?[1]—Yet instead of this isolated merit, and the moral valve of his deportment in this appropriation of his
- ↑ This will not be understood as if the Author had ransacked those volumes, which would be wholly inconsistent, while he does not write as a classic; but he presumes that had the set off, adverted to, been to be found, the circumstance would long ago have transpired, through the information of literati less conspicuous for their thoughtless apathy than those brought forward.
regretted that one so capable of conferring lasting obligations on the world should be occupied with the modulation of sounds, found a remedy which we all know. As learning did not expand the mind in these savans enough, when 'all the world's a stage,' to induce them to look round on the European boards for a performer with the diadem who joined scientific utility to the most humane considerations. like the one England could show—the Author (however unequal to remedy this hallucination) has his attention drawn to the neighbouring kingdom, where Lewis 15th nearly coeval in chronology, was so surprising a contrast to George 3rd in the particular view contemplated—That morbid satiety which converts whatever is most desirable in life into its scourge and bane, became in him its own punishment, and singularly illustrative of the poet's axiom, that—
Some are, and must be greater than the rest;
——but who infers from hence
That such are happier, shocks all common sense:
—never was it more strikingly set on than by this Monarch; whose favourite Mistress (if she might be called so, whom a particular distemper disqualified for his bed) derived her influence from having discovered that the most certain way to rule her paramour was to vary the amusements of the passing
