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    Lord Chatham wrote Latin verses at college . Pitt , hid son , wrote English ones in his youth , and assisted his brothers

    and sisters in composing a play . Even that caricature of an intriguing and servile statesman , Bubb Dodington , had a poetical vein of tender and

    grace . Our first statesman , whose verses are worth quoting , is Sir Thomas Wyatt , a diplomatist of exquisite address , in the service of Henry the Eighth . He was rather a great man than

    a great poet , and ms most important pieces in verse are imitations from other languages . But he was very fond of the art , and was accounted a rival in his day of his illustrious friend , the Earl of Surrey *

    The folio wiug " Description " is in the highest rural taste , and reminds us of some of the sweet quiet faces in the Italian masters , or the exquisite combination of " glad and sad" in the female countenances of Chaucer : —

    Description of such a one as he would love .

    " A face that should content me wond ' rous well , Should not be fair , but lovely to behold ; With gladsome chere , all grief for to expell ; With sober looks so would I that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell ; The tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , might chance I might be tied , And knit again the knot that should not slide . "

    The reader may be amused the pleasantness with which a with the following specimen of great man can trifle . It is A Riddle of a Gift given by a Lady . 44 A lady gave me a gift she had hot ; And I received her gift I took not ;

    She gave it me willingly , and yet she would not ; And I received it , albeit I could not . If she give it me , I force not ; And if she take it again , she cares not ; Construe what this is , and tell not ; For I am fast sworn , I ma ^ not . "

    The solution is understood to be a Kiss . Our nextpoetical statesman s Queen Elizabeth ' s Earl of Essex ; and of a truly poetical nature was he , though with this mfortunate drawback , — that

    he had a will still stronger in him than love , and thrusting itself in front of his understanding , —to the daring of all opposition , good as well as bad , and downbreak of himself and fortunes . He was more of a

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    282 Of Statesmen who have written Verses *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/57/