Each social, each domestic bliss is thine.
Despising here the borrowed blaze of state
Thou shin’st in thy own virtues truly great,
By them exalted, with contempt look down
On all earth’s pomps, except Britannia’s crown.”
M.L.
Nov. 2nd, 1749.
FOOTNOTES:
[58] She alludes to the correspondence printed and published by Walpole, after the Prince’s expulsion from England.
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Husband and a Lover.
It has been said that Frederick possessed artistic tastes and loved to gather round him men of talent and wit. He was also devoted to music, and gave frequent private concerts at Leicester House in which he himself took part.