Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    case, must undoubtedly be more unrestrained in her operations, and expand with greater grandeur and sublimity. But, nevertheless, it must be confessed, that this idea was carried by his lord¬ ship to an excess. The God of Nature has left much to be performed by the care and industry of man. We are expected to reduce many things to juster proportions—and to render this .lower world, by improvements, subservient, in a still higher degree, both to our pleasure and utility, Such, then, is the portrait of Lord Rokeby-^we have endeavoured faithfully to delineate his cha¬ racter—and happy shall we deem ourselves should it be found we have sketched the features with fidelity.