--Description of
George II.'s Family.--Anne Brett.--A Bitter Cup.--The Darling
of the Family.--Evenings at St. James's.--Frederick, Prince of
Wales.--Amelia Sophia Walmoden.--Poor Queen Caroline!--Nocturnal
Diversions of Maids of Honour.--Neighbour George's Orange
Chest.--Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey.--Rivalry.--Hervey's Intimacy
with Lady Mary.--Relaxations of the Royal Household.--Bacon's
Opinion of Twickenham.--A Visit to Pope's Villa.--The Little
Nightingale.--The Essence of Small Talk.--Hervey's Affectation
and Effeminacy.--Pope's Quarrel with Hervey and Lady
Mary.--Hervey's Duel with Pulteney.--'The Death of Lord Hervey:
a Drama.'--Queen Caroline's last Drawing-room.--Her Illness and
Agony.--A Painful Scene.--The Truth discovered.--The Queen's
Dying Bequests.--The King's Temper.--Archbishop Potter is sent
for.--The Duty of Reconciliation.--The Death of Queen
Caroline.--A Change in Hervey's Life.--Lord Hervey's
Death.--Want of Christianity.--Memoirs of his Own Time. p. 170
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
The King of Table Wits.--Early Years.
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