The same cause is now come round about again. Nobody can deny but he is sacred in his own person, and it is every honest man's duty to defend it. He is said, however, to have preserved himself at this time from disgrace and difficulties by oeconomy, which he forgot or neglected in life more advanced, and in better fortune. About this time he became enamoured of the countess of Newburgh, whom he has celebrated with so much ardour by the name of Mira. He wrote verses to her before he was three and twenty, and may be forgiven if he regarded the face more than the mind.
Poets are sometimes in too much haste to praise.
It is a mythological tragedy, upon the love of Agamemnon and Chryseis, and therefore easily sunk into neglect, though praised in verse by Dryden, and in prose by Pope. In this collection are only Peleus and Thetis, and the British Enchanters , of which finding that the compilers had improperly omitted the Preface, I have directed it to be added. At the accession of queen Anne, having his fortune improved by bequests from his father, and his uncle the earl of Bathe, he was chosen into parliament for Fowey. He soon after engaged in a joint translation of the Invectives against Philip , with a design, surely weak and puerile, of turning the thunder of Demosthenes upon the head of Lewis. Next year, when the violence of party made twelve peers in a day, Mr. Granville became Lord Landsdowne, Baron Biddeford , by a promotion justly remarked to be not invidious, because he was the heir of a family in which two peerages, that of the earl of Bathe and lord Granville of Potheridge, had lately become extinct.