He never once, during his whole reign, showed himself at the theatre.

[55] The poets who wrote Pindaric verses in his praise complained that their flights of sublimity were beyond his comprehension.

[56] Those who are acquainted with the panegyrical odes of that age will perhaps be of opinion that he did not lose much by his ignorance.
It is true that his wife did her best to supply what was wanting, and that she was excellently qualified to be the head of the Court.

She was English by birth, and English also in her tastes and feelings.

Her face was handsome, her port majestic, her temper sweet and lively, her manners affable and graceful.