Of pride delights thee to the topmost round
Of Fortune's ladder got, despise not one
For want of smooth hypocrisy undone,
Who, far below, turns up his wondering eye,
And, without envy, sees thee placed so high: 70
Let not thy brain (as brains less potent might)
Dizzy, confounded, giddy with the height,
Turn round, and lose distinction, lose her skill
And wonted powers of knowing good from ill,
Of sifting truth from falsehood, friends from foes,
Let Glo'ster well remember how he rose,
Nor turn his back on men who made him great;
Let him not, gorged with power, and drunk with
Forget what once he was, though now so high, How low, how mean, and full as poor as I.
LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR PARK.
THESE verses appeared, with Churchill's name to them, in
the London Magazine for 1765, and there is no reason to
doubt their being genuine, which is far from being the case
with respect to several lines ascribed to him in the Foundling
Hospital for wit, and several other miscellaneous collections:
When Pope to Satire gave its lawful way,
And made the Nimrods of Mankind his prey;
When haughty Windsor heard through every wood
'Their shame, who durst be great, yet not be good;
Who, drunk with power, and with ambition blind,
Slaves to themselves, and monsters to mankind,
Sinking the man, to magnify the prince,
Were heretofore, what Stuarts have been since:
Could he have look'd into the womb of time,
How might his spirit in prophetic rhyme,
Inspired by virtue, and for freedom bold,
Matters of different import have foretold!*
How might his muse, if any muse's tongue
Could equal such an argument, have sung
One William,t who makes all mankind his care,
And shines the saviour of his country there!
One William, who to every heart gives law;
The son of George, the image of Nassau!
* Pope would have foretold no such thing, if we may judge from the following couplet in honour of Queen Anne, and her family:
Rich industry sits smiling on the plains,
And peace and plenty tells a Stuart reigns.
↑ William, Duke of Cumberland, born in 1721, among his other high offices, held that of ranger and keeper of Windsor Great Park; while his more familiar appellation, as
recorded by both Sir C. H. Williams, and Horace Walpole, was Nolkejumskoi, but why or wherefore he was so called, they have not condescended to inform us. He was the hero and the leader of the Whigs, in their opposition to the Bute faction, while his victory and alleged severities at Culloden, made him particularly obnoxious to the Scotch of all parties. He had previously distinguished himself at the Battle of Dettingen, but was not equally successful in Flanders, in 1747, owing to some variance between him and the Prince of Orange, who was, as Mr. Pelham said, assuming, pedantic, rationating, and tenacious; while our young hero, was open, frank, resolute, and perhaps hasty. In 1757, the Duke commanded an army of observation to defend the Electoral territories, but being greatly out-numbered, if not out-generaled, he afforded the Tories a triumph, by his submitting to what they designated the shameful capitulation of Closter Seven; soon after which, he resigned all his military employments, and spent the remainder of his life in retirement and rural improvements. He died suddenly in his house in Upper Grosvenor Street, in October, 1765. He is represented as possessing a very good understanding, a quick apprehension, and a very attractive way of delivering his own sentiments, while he was equally engaging and agreeable in listening to those of others.
He had the additional merit, in contradistinction to his almost imbecile elder brother, Frederic, of evincing an im plicit and apparently genuine feeling of filial obedience to. and reverence for, his father; and deserved and at the same time enjoyed the affectionate confidence of his exemplary mother, Queen Caroline.
Considered in all his relations, military as well as civil, we think we are doing no injustice to the illustrious house of Hanover, by coming to the conclusion that William, Duke of Cumberland, may for talent, ability, and conduct, be considered as the most distinguished prince it has produced since its accession to the British throne.
Ackman, an obscure actor,
account of, i. 14.
Actor, The, a poem by Robert
Lloyd, i. 1, 37.
Actors, their poverty, i. 8;
censured for introducing
the peculiarities of a fa-
vourite character into all
their parts, 50; not to be
estimated according to their
personal merits or defects,
86; lively description of
itinerant companies, and
their mode of travelling, 54;
censured for their assumed
consequence, and the self
importance of their ma-
nagers ridiculed, 135.
Addison, Joseph, lines by, in
praise of Dryden, i. 143; his
ghost said to haunt Holland
House, ii. 292.
Addresses on the peace of
1763; dishonourable means
used to obtain them, i. 247.
Esopus, a Roman actor, his
immense fortune, i. 9; costly
dish given by him at a feast,
ib.
Aldrich, Rev. Stephen, con-
tributes to the exposure of
the Cock Lane Ghost, ii.
Alembert, Mons. D', saying of,
i. xciii.
Allen, Ralph, a correspondent
of Pope, and the Allworthy
of Fielding's Tom Jones, i.
43; his benevolence, iii. 315.
Almack's, Old, a noted Tory
club house in Pall Mall, iii.
144; the name since trans-
ferred to a côterie of female
noblesse, held in King
Street, St. James's Square,
ib.
Almon, John, bookseller, his
Memoirs and Correspond
ence of Wilkes, ii. 103; first
publisher of Wilkes's let-
ter to Lord Temple, 254; iii.
Amboyna, cruelties of the
Dutch at, ii. 135.
Amyand, George and Claud-
ius, eminent merchants, ac-
count of, iii. 85-7.
Annet, Peter, put in the pillory
for blasphemy, iii. 25, 106.
Apicii, the, anecdotes of, iii.
228; a nobleman stigma-
tized as Apicius, 235.
Apology, The, addressed to the
Critical Reviewers, prefa-
tory note to, i. 115, 120;
supplemental note on Gar-
rick, 146-152.
Arblay, Madame D', anecdote
of Dr. Johnson, from her
Diary, iii. 181.
Aristocracy, the author's pre-
ference of an absolute mo-
narchy to, i. lxxvi.
Armstrong, Dr. John, excites
the resentment of Wilkes
and Churchill, iii. 308; his
anathema against port-
wine, 309; his description
of the sweating sickness,311.
Arne, Dr. Thomas Augustine,
account of, i. 73, 74, 75.
Arrow, ii. 261, 303.
Artaxerxes, opera of, notice of
i. 76.
Arts, Society of, its origin, ii. |
305; invidious reflection
upon refuted, ib.; B. Thorn-
ton's attempt to ridicule it,
Asgill, Sir Charles, carries up
the address from the city of
London to the King, on the
peace, iii. 30.
Astronomy and Astrology,
first studied by the Chal-
deans, ii. 220; improved by
the Egyptians, 221; the
Greeks ignorant of, in the
time of Herodotus, 223.
Auditor, The, edited by Mur-
phy, an imposition practised
upon, and consequent epi-
gram, 57, 58; anecdote of
Wilkes in, iii. 162.
Augurs, college of, ii. 226;
consisted of fifteen persons
of the first distinction in
Rome, ib.; quotation from
Hudibras on it, 227.
Augusta, princess dowager of
Wales, account of, ii. 97,
Austin, an actor, account of,
i. 51.
Author, The, preliminary note
to, ii. 167.
Ayliff, John, account of, i. 227;
hung at Tyburn, 228; Chur-
chill's satire of Ayliff's
Ghost, ib.; fragments of
this poem, 255-6; additional
note on, 254; allusion to, ii.
11, 17; lines intended for
that satire, 184; iii. 315.
Bacon, Lord Chancellor, ii.
204.
Baker, Sir Richard, chronicler
of the marvellous, ii. 241.
Barge, belonging to the City,
its voyage from Westmins
ter, iii. 59.
Baron, the French comedian,
compared with Roscius and
Garrick, i. 148.
Berenger, J. P., Garrick's ge-
nerosity to, i. 147.
Berkeley, Colonel Norborne.
second to Lord Talbot in his
duel with Wilkes, ii. 101;
letter of, ib.; his pungent
letter to his constituents, iii.
107.
Betterton, Thomas, account
of, i. 93, 96; his excellence
as an actor, 97; figures in a
picture by Hogarth, ii. 95.
Billingsgate, humorous lines
on, ii. 350.
Blacow, the informer, ii. 188.
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