The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . d Girl that lovesto go abroad—Always stuffing—His Majestys shocking Behaviour andIll-Humour—Lady Deloraine aspires to be the Kings Mistress—The QueensTaste for Gardening—She transforms the Gardens at Hampton Court—Thefigured Scroll-work Beds removed—Large Lawns and Yew Trees cut intoPyramids. jORD HERVEY, who fills such a large space inthe Court life of this period, was occupied, in thesummer of 1733 at Hampton Court, in other waysbesides attending on the King and Queen, andwriting the memoirs, letters, and court versesfrom which we have giv
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . d Girl that lovesto go abroad—Always stuffing—His Majestys shocking Behaviour andIll-Humour—Lady Deloraine aspires to be the Kings Mistress—The QueensTaste for Gardening—She transforms the Gardens at Hampton Court—Thefigured Scroll-work Beds removed—Large Lawns and Yew Trees cut intoPyramids. jORD HERVEY, who fills such a large space inthe Court life of this period, was occupied, in thesummer of 1733 at Hampton Court, in other waysbesides attending on the King and Queen, andwriting the memoirs, letters, and court versesfrom which we have given extracts in our last chapter. For,throughout the month of August, he was busy composing asatire, entitled An Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from aNobleman at Hampton Court, August 28, 1733, in whichhe sought to reply to the attacks made against him by can be no doubt that he was most justly irritated bythe way in which the poet, without any provocation on hispart, had referred to him several times in his satiric pieces,. 173si Lord Herveys Satire against Pope. 253 under the opprobrious sobriquet of Lord Fanny, laugh-ing at his taste for versifying, hinting at his physical infir-mities, and maligning, in the most filthy terms, his friendLady Mary Wortley Montagu. The principal lines inwhich Hervey was aimed at, and which impelled him tocompose his reply, were these :— The lines are weak, anothers pleased to Fanny spins a thousand such a day; and, again. Like gentle Fannys was my flowery theme,A painted mistress or a purling stream. Accordingly, he set to work, with no very great pru-dence, to attack, in the heroic couplet, the poet whohandled that form of verse with such masterly effect. Buthis lordships satire, though no doubt the best he could pro-duce, was disastrously unequal to such a contest. In thewhole epistle there are scarcely any lines of more vigourthan the following, in which he disparages Popes claims toto be regarded as a po
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