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he will be recognised by the two following occasional productions in the Annual Register for 1770.

"Ode to Lady Elizabeth Yorke (afterwards Lady Anson ); on her copying a Portrait of Dante by Clovio."

"Stanzas in the Manner of Waller;"

and the following verses

"TO A LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF POPE'S WORKS.

"The lover oft, to please some faithless dame,
With vulgar presents feeds the dying flame,
Then adds a verse; of slighted vows complains,
While she the giver and the gift disdains.
These strains no idle suit to thee commend,
On whom gay loves with chaste desires attend;
Nor fancied excellence, nor amorous care,
Prompts to rash praise, or fills with fond despair:

* Jenyns wrote some stanzas on her marriage in 1748; and Mallet addressed to her father an elegy on the death of this lady in 1761, in which he exclaims

"No fortune, Hardwicke! is sincerely bless'd:

All human kind are sons of sorrow born;
The great must suffer, and the good must mourn;
She whom the Muses, whom the loves deplore,
Ev'n she, thy pride, thy pleasure is no more!"

From these lines, and from the Biog. Brit. vol. i. it appears that LADY ANSON was herself a writer of poetry, and had a fine taste in drawing and painting; while her whole conduct and behaviour were distinguished by virtue, dignity, and politeness. She died on the 1st of June 1760.

Enough, if the fair volume find access;
Thee the great poet's lay shall best express:
Thy beauteous image there thou mayst regard,
Which strikes with modest awe the meaner bard.
Sure, had he living view'd thy tender youth,
The blush of honour and the grace of truth,
Ne'er with Belinda's charms his song had glow'd,
But from thy form the lov'd idea flow'd;
His wanton satire ne'er the sex had scorn'd,
For thee, by Virtue and the Muse adorn'd."

Lady Margaret Yorke, the second daughter of lord Hardwicke, who married sir Gilbert Heathcote, and died in 1769, was no less gifted than her brother and sister with the graces of the Muse; as appears from a poetical epistle to the marchioness Grey, which is printed in the sixth volume of Bell's Fugitive Poetry, and in the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1781.]

ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER,

FOURTH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY,

[ONLY son to the celebrated author of the Charac

teristics, lord-lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the county of Dorset, F. R. S. and recorder of Shaftesbury but cursorily noticed here as a biographer, on the authority of Dr. Kippis, to whom his lordship acknowledged, that in reverence to the memory and character of his father, he had drawn up a life of him, which was inserted in the General Dictionary 2, and is highly creditable to its author; a nobleman, concerning whom Dr. Huntingford remarks, that there never existed a man of more benevolence, moral worth, and true piety: this exalted character was confirmed by the testimony of Dr. Kippis, who had the honour of sharing his lordship's personal acquaintance.

After a brief analytical survey of his father's writings, he closes with the opinion delivered above, at p. 59., which begins

"Every page," &c.—But at the same time that his lordship professed a high esteem for those writings, he did not concur with the noble author in many parts of his works, which appear to be sceptical with regard to the Christian religion. This we are told by Dr. Kippis. 3]

2 See vol. ix. p. 179.

Biog. Brit. vol. iv. p. 273.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE,

FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

FEW men have been born with a brighter show of parts; few men have bestowed more cultivation on their natural endowments; and the world has seldom been more just in its admiration both of genuine and improved talents. A model yet more rarely beheld, was that of a prince of wits who employed more application in forming a successor, than to perpetuate his own renown: —yet, though the peer in question not only laboured by daily precepts to educate his heir, but drew up for his use a code of institution, in which no secret of his doctrine was withheld; he was not only so unfortunate as to behold a total miscarriage of his lectures, but the system itself appeared so superficial, so trifling, and so illaudable, that mankind began to wonder at what they had admired in the preceptor, and to question whether the dictator of such tinsel injunctions had really possessed those brilliant qualifications which had so

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