These particulars I
mention, in the belief that there was only forgetfulness in my friend;
but I owe this much to the Earl of Marchmont's reputation, who, were
there no other memorials, will be immortalised by that line of Pope, in
the verses on his Grotto:
'And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul.'
_Various Readings in the Life of POPE._
'[Somewhat free] _sufficiently bold_ in his criticism.
'All the gay [niceties] _varieties_ of diction.
'Strikes the imagination with far [more] _greater_ force.
'It is [probably] _certainly_ the noblest version of poetry which the
world has ever seen.
'Every sheet enabled him to write the next with [less trouble] _more
facility_.
'No man sympathizes with [vanity, depressed] _the sorrows of vanity_.
'It had been [criminal] _less easily excused_.
'When he [threatened to lay down] _talked of laying down_ his pen.
'Society [is so named emphatically in opposition to] _politically
regulated, is a state contra-distinguished from_ a state of nature.
'A fictitious life of an [absurd] _infatuated_ scholar.
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