The life of the late Earl of Chesterfield: or the man of the world including his lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called the World; his poems; and the substance of the system of education, delivered in a series of letters to his son ... / [Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield].

  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.
Date:
1774
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Credit: The life of the late Earl of Chesterfield: or the man of the world including his lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called the World; his poems; and the substance of the system of education, delivered in a series of letters to his son ... / [Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ vit] in his Letters to his Son, the 0727275 homo, or all-accomplifbed Chefterfield, Well therefore might the poet fay, - ** O thou, whofe wifdom, folid yet refin’d, Whofe patriot-virtues and confummate {kill To touch the finer fprings that move the world, Join’d to whate’er the graces can beftow, And all Apollo’s animating fire, Give thee with pleafing dignity to thine At once the guardian, ornament, and joy: Of polifh’d life ;—permit the rural Mufe, O Chefterfield ! -to grace with thee her fong ; Ere to the fhades again fhe humbly flies, . ‘Indulge her fond ambition in thy train; (For every Mufe has in thy train a place) To mark thy various full-accomplith’d mind: ‘To mark that f{pirit, which, with Britith fcorn, Rejects th’ allurements of corrupted power 3 That elegant politenefs which excells Even in the judgment of prefumptuous France, The boafted manners of her fhining court ; That wit, the vivid energy of fenfe, Lhe truth of nature, which with Attic point, And kind well-tempered fatire, {moothly keen, Steals through the foul, and without pain correéts, Or, rifing thence, with yet a brighter flame, O let me hail thee on fome glorious day, When to the liftening fenate ardent crowd