--Hervey's Description of his
Person.--Resolutions and Pursuits.--Study of Oratory.--The
Duties of an Ambassador.--King George II.'s Opinion of his
Chroniclers.--Life in the Country.--Melusina, Countess of
Walsingham.--George II. and his Father's Will.--Dissolving
Views.--Madame du Bouchet.--The Broad-Bottomed
Administration.--Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in Time of
Peril.--Reformation of the Calendar.--Chesterfield
House.--Exclusiveness.--Recommending 'Johnson's
Dictionary.'--'Old Samuel,' to Chesterfield.--Defensive
Pride.--The Glass of Fashion.--Lord Scarborough's Friendship
for Chesterfield.--The Death of Chesterfield's Son.--His
Interest in his Grandsons.--'I must go and Rehearse my
Funeral.'--Chesterfield's Will.--What is a Friend?--Les
Manieres Nobles.--Letters to his Son. p. 210
THE ABBE SCARRON.
An Eastern Allegory.--Who comes Here?--A Mad Freak and its
Consequences.--Making an Abbe of him.--The May-Fair of
Paris.--Scarron's Lament to Pellisson.--The Office of the
Queen's Patient.--'Give me a Simple Benefice.'--Scarron's
Description of Himself.
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