[104] Mr. Pope has honoured this dignified divine with a slight stroke in the Epistle to Lord Burlington, and note on the lines—
"To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite."[105]
[105] "A reverend Dean, preaching at Court, threatened the sinner with punishment in a place he thought it not decent to name in so polite an assembly."—P.
[106] To this architectural ornament he has an unquestionable right. His Lordship (besides other buildings) designed the Dormitory at Westminster School, the Assembly Room at York, Lord Harrington's at Petersham, and General Wade's in Cork Street. The latter, though ill-contrived and inconvenient, had so beautiful a front, that Lord Chesterfield said, "As the General could not live in it at his ease, he had better take a house over against it, and look at it."
"Yet shall (my Lord) your just, your noble rules,
Fill half the land with imitating fools,
Who random drawings from your sheets shall take,
And of one beauty many blunders make."