Obrázky na stránke
PDF
ePub

"In such a world; so thorny, and where none
Finds happiness unblighted; or, if found,
Without some thistly sorrow at its side;
It seems the part of wisdom, and no sin
Against the law of love, to measure lots
With less distinguish'd than ourselves; that thus
We may with patience bear our moderate ills,
And sympathize with others, suffering more."

Book iv.

JOHN LOWTHER,

VISCOUNT LONSDALE.

[SIR John Lowther, of Lowther-hall, one of the early promoters of the revolution, was constituted vice-chamberlain to king William and queen Mary on their advancement to the English throne 2; and was twice appointed one of the regency, while the king went to Holland 3. According to Bolton, he was also a commissioner of the treasury. In 1696 he was created baron Lowther, of Lowther, and viscount Lonsdale, in Westmorland. In 1699 he was made lord privy-seal, and died July 10, 1700, aged fortyfive.

His brief introduction here arises from the belief of his having written

"A Treatise on Economics,"

addressed to his son 4, which may still remain in manuscript among some of his descendants.]

• Nichols's Selection of Poems, vol. v. p. 33.

Bolton's Extinct Peerage, p. 178.

• Tickell inscribed his poem of Oxford, in 1707, to the son of this peer, and thus introduced a compliment to both: "Whilst you inhabit Lowther's awful pile,

A structure worthy of the founder's toil;
Amaz'd we see the former Lonsdale shine

In each descendant of his noble line:

But most transported and surpriz'd we view

His ancient glories all reviv'd in you,

Where charms and virtues join their equal grace,

Your father's godlike soul, your mother's lovely face."

THE END OF THE THIRD Volume.

[merged small][ocr errors]
« PredošláPokračovať »