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[ 'Shippen:' the only member of parliament Sir R. Walpole found incorruptible.]
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[ 'Lee:' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's day.]
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[ 'Budgell:' Addison's relation, who drowned himself in the Thames.]
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[ 'And he whose lightning:' Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military movements—a petty Napoleon.]
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[ 'Oldfield:' this eminent glutton ran through a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a-year in the simple luxury of good eating.—P.]