The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-29

and had severe fit of dyspepsia. (By the way,
If he had not eaten and drank so much, the
hydrocephalic look of that poor boy William,
Duke of Gloucester, as il appears in No. 80,
where his mother Queen Anne holds him at
her knee, might not have been so fatally large,
with such consequences to countless genera
| tions) Well, a certain physician, whom
Swift (l4O), in letter to Stella-whose pOr-
trait, by the way, is not No. 142-May 10,
l7l2, described as ga Scotch gentleman,
friend of mine," CHANGED, much to the com
fort of Prince George and his own benefit, to
be at Epson on that day.
This "Scotch gentleman" and physician was
Arbuthnot, and the occasion of Swft's letterwas
the publication of the famous "History Of John
| Bull, work which Swift praised edprodigiously
| as became one of that wonderful Mutual Ad-
miIation Society," to which both belonged. In
due time Arbuthnot wrote to Swift, who, in
his turn, had published "The Travels of Cap
tain Lemuel CULVER" and informed him that
Lord Scarborough (235), ''who is no inventor
of stories, told me that he fell in company with
master of ship who told him that he was
very well acquainted with Gulliver; but the
printer had mistaken, that he lived in Wap-
ping, not in Rotherhthe." To add to the
oddity of all this, it has come out since that
there really was a sea captain Gulliver, who
lived somewhere by Deal in later life, and was
probably the man about whom the "printer''
is said to have erred.
Downright Shippen," the man among
men, whose price Sir Robert Walpole GAL
etc. }, did not know, is here on canvas (222),
man with a black and prodigious peri
wig, who sits bolt upright in his chair,
having, on flat face, broad nose, round
eyes, and singularly uplifted eyebrows-ex-
| pressive of disdain and self-relanoe: a richly
| characteristic picture, probably by Richardson.
"Lord Fanny" is here in Lord Hervey (25O,
| of whom more presently. "Sir Richard" is
R1npKnnOra nh uioio o,,I L.
poet; Bugdell and Cibber do not appear.
Caesar" who "scorns the poets lays,' is
| George l Q94). The exquisite and famous
lines that can never be too famous, by which
the poet describes his own condition, bear
| light on "BOlingbroke" Q09), and 'tPeter-
borough" Q29);-
| "Know, all the distant din the world can keen
| Rolls DER Ny grotto, and but soothes my sleep:
There my retreat the best companions grace
| Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place.
/ There st, John mingles with my friendly bowl
/ The feast of reason and the flow of soul;
And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian
Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my
| vines,
| Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain
| Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain"
Of Dryden, we have an irrefutable portrait
in No. 65. 1t is by Kneller, the property of
Dryden's descendant, and was given to the
| poet by the painter. The story is that when
| Dryden read some of Swift's early poems he
said, "Ah cousin Swift, you will never be
| poet" saying which the latter revenged in
the immortal "Battle of the Books" where
he certainly throws an odd light on this pic
ture. 1t represents a man in a tremendous
| periwig, from within which the face peers out,
so as almost to justify the satire in the account
| of the duel between Virgil and his translator.
"The helmet of the latter" so wrote Swift,
''was nine times too large for the head, which
| appeared situate far in the hinder part, like
| q Of Mt
| shr1velled beau from within the penthouse of q
| modern periwig." Let the shudderipg reader
| think of the feelings of the withered dragon.
| who, when age let his natural coat of mail
hang loose and rattling on his vast but weak
ened chest, heard this from the young lion of
the next generation How the aged heart
| must have ached for the days when "Mac
| Flecknoe" was written; ached for the arm IS
strength that had hewed down Doeq (Settle),
cast Og (ShadwelD into the fire. and assaulted
| ShaftesbuTy
Dryden and Swift were cousins on the female
side, but Dryden's appears to have been the
better blood; in worldly sense there could
be no comparison. Swift was poor and never
got much for his literary labor. whereas of
'Absalom and AchitOphel'' more copies had
been sold than of any work except "The Trial
of SacheVerell" Q26).
From the hand of the Earl of Abingdon Dry
| den received the unparalleled sum of FIVE hum
dred guineas for his poem "Eleanora, I" a lau-
datlon OF the Earl's wife-a work which, as
containing no more than three hundred and
seventy lines, was better paid for than any
poem, ancient or modern. The modern maxi
mum of guinua line is nothing to this; the
| difference in the value of money makes the
| former price more than double. By the by,
does everybody know that Dryden's house of
living and dying still stands-being No. "a
Gerard street, Soho His study was the
| ground floor front room. Another of the men
depicted here lived close by, namely, Lord
Mohun (123), who fought the Duke of Hamil.
ton (79), so that both were slain. They
fought about the property of which that part
OF Soho is large section. Gerard street took
its name from Lady Mohun's uncle, Lord Mac
clesfeld, whose title is represented by Mac
clesfeld street in the same district.
| Dryden's face is by no means a beautiful
| one. The upper features look as if they had
somehow slid towards the chin; the nose is
lengthy and teshy; there is heshiness of
another sort about the lips; the chin is rather
| weak; the outer corners Of the eyes are higher
than their inner fellows.
Pope's will, which has been already referred
to, connects us with two other legatees
whose portraits are here the Misses Bount
| Q5O:-
The fair haired Martha and Theresa brown"
Readers will remember these ladies' names in
connection with Pope. The name of Jervas is
not appended to this picture in the catalogue,
but we have no doubt of its having been
| painted by that artist. 1t has, however, been
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