Mann, March 23, 1752.]
[Footnote 142: The _Spectator_, "Sir Roger at the Playhouse."]
[Footnote 143: Horace Walpole, "Short Notes of My Life."]
[Footnote 144: Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, Aug. 2, 1750.]
[Footnote 145: See the "Newgate Calendar."]
[Footnote 146: See the "Newgate Calendar" and Pike's "History of
Crime," vol. 2, chap. x.]
[Footnote 147: Walpole to Mann, bet. July 14 and 29, 1742.]
[Footnote 148: "Amelia," book i, chap. 2.]
[Footnote 149: Walpole to Mann, bet. July 14 and 29, 1742.]
[Footnote 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_.]
II.
Lord Hervey's bitter lines introduce us to Jonathan Swift. Nature,
together with the character of his time, made the great Dean a
misanthropist. Physical infirmity, disappointed hopes, and a long
series of humiliations destroyed the happiness which should have
belonged to his rare union of noble gifts,--his tall, commanding
figure, his awe-inspiring countenance, his acute wit, and magnificent
intellect. Naturally proud and sensitive to an abnormal degree, he was
obliged to suffer the most galling slights.
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