"It is indeed a curious and interesting letter, and sufficient (if such a thing is possible) to make the Jacobites themselves ashamed of Jacobitism; but shews plainly, that lord Bolingbroke was a slave to his passions, passions too of the most malignant nature, and one who would stick at nothing to serve the interests of a party."
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
R. Griffiths
Date
June, 1753
Metaphor
"It is indeed a curious and interesting letter, and sufficient (if such a thing is possible) to make the Jacobites themselves ashamed of Jacobitism; but shews plainly, that lord Bolingbroke was a slave to his passions, passions too of the most malignant nature, and one who would stick at nothing to serve the interests of a party."
Metaphor in Context
LORD Bolingbroke's character as a writer is so well known, and we have given our sentiments in relation to it so fully on some former occasions, that it would be to little purpose to repeat them here. But whatever idea may be entertained of his abilities as a writer, an attentive and impartial perusal of his letter to Sir William Wyndham, which is the principal part of the volume now before us, will give but a very mean opinion of him as a man. It is indeed a curious and interesting letter, and sufficient (if such a thing is possible) to make the Jacobites themselves ashamed of Jacobitism; but shews plainly, that lord Bolingbroke was a slave to his passions, passions too of the most malignant nature, and one who would stick at nothing to serve the interests of a party.
(pp. 441-2)
(pp. 441-2)
Provenance
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Citation
Monthly Review Vol. 8, June Issue (London: R. Griffiths, 1753). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
09/14/2011
