Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Both were men essentially, and to an extraordinary degree,of their time; and as the one was nearly five-and-twenty yearsthe junior of the other, they give us, in a manner not easilyto be paralleled elsewhere, the eighteenth century as it showeditself, during almost its whole course, in persons of high rank,of complete education, and of very exceptional ability. BothAvere long-lived: Chesterfield, who was bor
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Both were men essentially, and to an extraordinary degree,of their time; and as the one was nearly five-and-twenty yearsthe junior of the other, they give us, in a manner not easilyto be paralleled elsewhere, the eighteenth century as it showeditself, during almost its whole course, in persons of high rank,of complete education, and of very exceptional ability. BothAvere long-lived: Chesterfield, who was born in 1694, did not dietill 1778, and Horace Walpole, who was born in 1717, after aboutthe same complete span of life, died in 1797. Chesterfield, LITERATURE. 359 1784] a statesman and a courtier, belonged rather to the a^e ofpatronage than that of perforinanco, and rather to that ofsterile correctness than to that of romantic quest. But hisfamous letters to his illegitimate son, his few Characters,and his fewer verses show a man of extraordinary intellectualcapacity, wh() might have done almost anything, and did do nota little. Walpole, a younger son and a man of little political. PHILU, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, RV THOMAS IIUDSOX. (Bii 2ermission of His Grace the Duke nf Fife.) and no statesmanlike ability, a virtuoso, a dilettante, an early ifnot altogether instructed convert to Gothic architecture andRenaissance bric-a-brac, to medieval romance and to moderncollecting, exhibits an entirely different and later stage of published very much; but while Chesterfield publishedhardly anything (the Letters were issued after his death byhis daughter-in-law), Horace Walpole, who possessed a privatepress, did not a little. His fame, however, does not rest on his 360 AN ERA OF XEW DEFARTURES. [1742 Letters and Memoirs. Koyal and Xoble Authors, nor on his Mysterious Mother,nor even on his Castle of Otranto, interesting as this is inthe history of British fiction; but on his copio
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