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Some of the men & women the book deals with: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ("the courtliest man of his generation had married its most abusive virago"); Robert Walpole ("a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice"); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ("her personality, though it had its inconveniences while she lived, is exactly the sort that is welcomed in the dead"); John Wesley (who "was that fascinating type of fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would...
...received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they...
...rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions are modest and the reader is pleasantly surprised to find them more than fulfilled...
...Wortley, England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
Company F--Cadet 1st Lieut., L. Burrill; Cadet 2nd Lieut., H. Whitney; Cadet Sergeants, W. H. Russell, N. Chandler, J. D. Love, W. Burry, R. Wortley, G. Weld; Cadet Corporals: J. Taylor, H. Shepley, J. Hubbell, J. Townsend, C. Claflin, S. Paine, G. Cobb, W. Ritchie, J. Sheehan...