"career was one great, incessant, and unrewarded effort to resist oppression, promote justice, and restrain the abuse of power. He had an invincible hatred of tyranny and oppression, and the most ardent love of public happiness and attachment to public rights."
A lover of art, a scholar, a linguist, he wrote memoirs, satires, and verses, collected materials for a life of his uncle, Charles James Fox, and translated both from the Spanish and Italian. His
Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
(1806) was reviewed favourably by the
Edinburgh Review
for October, 1806. Byron attacked him in
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
(lines 540-559, and
notes
), on the supposition that Lord Holland had instigated the article in the