Your lateness in life (as you so soon call it) might be improper to begin the world with, but almost the eldest men may hope to see changes in a Court.

A Minister is always seventy; you are thirty years younger; and consider, Cromwell did not begin to appear till he was older than you."[18] * * * * * Swift could not forgive the Court for the offer, Mrs.Howard for not exerting her influence to get a better post for her protege.

"I desire my humble service to Lord Oxford, Lord Bathurst, and particularly to Miss Blount, but to no lady at Court.

God bless you for being a greater dupe than I.I love that character too myself, but I want your charity," he wrote to Pope, August 11th, 1729; but Pope replying on October 9th said: "The Court lady[19] I have a good opinion of.

Yet I have treated her more negligently than you would do, because you will like to see the inside of a Court, which I do not ...