I no more expect to arrive at the age of the Duchess of Marlborough[19] than to that of Methusalem; neither do I desire it" (she wrote to Lady Bute in the early spring of 1751). That administration, as work at home as it was transitory, has never been charged with more than one error. But were I to search for a true idea of the style and composition of Homer, I think I should rather recur to the verbal translation in the margin of the original, than to the version of Pope. If he survive, the work form home on oracle 9i of manhood is dearly bought by so many heart aches. But with the expectations he had been induced to form, he did not think himself justified in having recourse to desperate expedients. The sentiments of the writer are stern, work at home we think even rancorous to the mother country. From him is descended the present noble family of the Dorsets; and it is remarkable, that all the descendants of this great man have inherited his taste for liberal arts and sciences, as well as his capacity for public business.
He was not more celebrated for his poetry, than his extraordinary private virtues, his sobriety and sincere attachment to the duties of religion.