Mr Pope, his life and times . all to dinner, and ahundred footsteps scrape the marble hall. Is this a dinner ? This a genial room ?No, tis a temple, and a solemn sacrifice, performed in state ;You drink by measure, and to minutes eat. ? •«••• Between each act the trembling salvers ring, From soup to sweet wine and God bless the king. In plenty starving, tantalised in state ; And complaisantly helped to all I hate. Treated, caressed, and tired, I take my leave, Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve; I curse such lavish cost and little skill. And swear no day was ever passed so ill
Mr Pope, his life and times . all to dinner, and ahundred footsteps scrape the marble hall. Is this a dinner ? This a genial room ?No, tis a temple, and a solemn sacrifice, performed in state ;You drink by measure, and to minutes eat. ? •«••• Between each act the trembling salvers ring, From soup to sweet wine and God bless the king. In plenty starving, tantalised in state ; And complaisantly helped to all I hate. Treated, caressed, and tired, I take my leave, Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve; I curse such lavish cost and little skill. And swear no day was ever passed so ill.^ The character of Timon was at once identifiedwith that of the Duke of Chandos, ^ who lived The poem concludes with a kind of justification for Timonsextravagance, on the grounds that hence the poor are clothed,the hungry fed. Pope, like most of his contemporaries, was notstrong on social economics. James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1673-1744). He hadbeen Paymaster of the Forces abroad (1707-12). He succeeded. ^^-/?^m% J^L --£5 .^, )//////////{!/( From a mezzotint eng;raving by J. Faber, 1^34, after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1716,RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. Hogarth on Taste^ 4^7 In princely state at Canons. His householdconsisted of not less than a hundred and twentypersons, while his private chapel was famous forthe beauty of its decorations, and also for the musicat its services, a full choir being ^ Popesenemies declared that the poet had received manybenefits from Chandos, including a gift of ;^500,^and that the satire was an instance of rank in-gratitude. Pope was surprised and distressed atthe outcry that was raised against his work, notonly by the Dunces, but by the public there was from the first no real doubtthat he took the general idea of Timons Villa fromCanons, yet, because some of the details had beenaltered, he sought to prove that the picture wasan imaginary one. Once again the accommodating Cleland wa
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