'T would please the ghost of my departed vice,
If, at my council, he repent and drink.
But Hervey represents the time when dissipation had run a long course, and disgust, sanctity, and misanthropy were succeeding. To him, as to Swift, men were "a worthless species of animals," their vices, natural; their virtues, affectation:
Mankind I know, their nature and their art,
Their vice their own, their virtue but a part
Ill played so oft, that all the cheat can tell,
And dangerous only when 't is acted well,
To such reflections when I turn my mind
I loathe my being, and abhor mankind.
[90] Carlyle, "Frederick the Great," p. 13. vol. i.
[91] Addison, "An Account of the Greatest English Poets." Quoted by Henry Morley, LL.D., "English Literature in the Reign of Victoria."
[92] Lecky's "History of England in the 18th Century," vol. i, p. 502.
[93] Lord Hervey, "Memoirs of George II," v. 3, p. 527.
[94] Hervey's "Mem. of George II," vol. 1, p. 147, note.
[95] Walpole's "Reminiscences"; Hervey's "Mem.," v. 2, p. 103, note.
[96] Walpole's "Mem. of George II," vol. 1, p. 87.
[97] Browne's "Estimate of the Times"; Lecky, "Hist. of 18th Century," vol. 1, p. 509.
[98] Lord Hervey, "Mem. of Geo. II," vol. i, p. 5.
[99] Idem, vol. i, p. 170.
[100] Idem, vol. i, p. 18.
[101] Hervey's "Mem.," i, 20.
[102] Idem, vol. 1, p. 208.
[103] Hervey's "Memoirs," 1, 39.
[104] Idem, ii, 360.
[105] Idem, ii, 31.
[106] Idem, vol. i, p. 91.
[107] Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. 1, p. 37.
[108] Hervey, 1, 22-25.
[109] Horace Walpole, "Reminiscences."
[110] Locke "On Civil Government," b. ii, ch. 13; Lecky's "History of the 18th Century," vol. I, p. 471.
[111] Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 280.
[112] Chesterfield, "Correspondence," iii, 94.
[113] Walpole to Mann, Dec. 24, 1741.
[114] Hervey's "Memoirs," i, 172.
[115] "History of the Eighteenth Century," vol. 1, p. 512.
[116] Green's "Short History of the English People," pp. 768-9.
[117] Hervey, ii, 189, note.
[118] Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. i, p. 500.
[119] Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. i, p. 502.
[120] Lord Hervey's "Memoirs", ii, 255.
[121] Idem, ii, 434.
[122] Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 472.
[123] Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 350.
[124] Idem, i, 90.
[125] Idem, ii, 349.
[126] Tatler, No. 159, Saturday, April 15, 1710.
[127] Steele, Tatler, No. 5.
[128] Walpole to Montague, March 20, 1737.
[129] Wilson's "Memoirs of Defoe," vol. i, p. 265.
[130] Wilson's "Memoirs of Defoe," vol. i, p. 206.
[131] Steele, Tatler, No. 12 May 7, 1709.
[132] Walpole to Mann, Nov. 26, 1711.
[133] Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Dec. 5, 1739.
[134] Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Jan. 17, 1731-32.
[135] Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Nov. 18, 1729.
[136] Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Christmas-day, 1729.
[137] Green, "Short History of the English People," p. 717.
[138] Lord Hervey's "Memoirs of George II," vol. ii, p. 139.
[139] Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," p. 259; Lecky, "History of England in the 18th Century," vol. i, chap. iv.
[140] Lecky, "History of England in the 18th Century," vol. i, p. 522.
[141] Walpole to Sir H. Mann, March 23, 1752.
[142] The Spectator, "Sir Roger at the Playhouse."
[143] Horace Walpole, "Short Notes of My Life."
[144] Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, Aug. 2, 1750.
[145] See the "Newgate Calendar."
[146] See the "Newgate Calendar" and Pike's "History of Crime," vol. 2, chap. x.
[147] Walpole to Mann, bet. July 14 and 29, 1742.
[148] "Amelia," book i, chap. 2.
[149] Walpole to Mann, bet. July 14 and 29, 1742.
[150] "State Trials;" vol. xvii, p. 298. Proceedings against John Higgins, Esq., Warden of the Fleet, Thomas Bainbridge, Esq., Warden of the Fleet, Richard Corbett, one of the Tipstaffs of the Fleet, and William Acton, Keeper of the Marshalsea Prison: 3 George II, A.D. 1729. Report of the Com. of the House of Commons.