no longer in favour, he contrived to obtain a writ for summoning the
Electoral Prince to Parliament as Duke of Cambridge.

At the Queen's death he was appointed one of the regents; and at the
accession of George I. was made Earl of Halifax, Knight of the
Garter, and First Commissioner of the Treasury, with a grant to his
nephew of the reversion of the Auditorship of the Exchequer. More
was not to be had, and this he kept but a little while; for on the
19th of May, 1715, he died of an inflammation of his lungs.

Of him, who from a poet became a patron of poets, it will be readily
believed that the works would not miss of celebration. Addison
began to praise him early, and was followed or accompanied by other
poets; perhaps by almost all, except Swift and Pope, who forbore to
flatter him in his life, and after his death spoke of him--Swift
with slight censure, and Pope, in the character of Bufo, with
acrimonious contempt.

He was, as Pope says, "fed with dedications;" for Tickell affirms
that no dedication was unrewarded. To charge all unmerited praise
with the guilt of flattery, and to suppose that the encomiast always
knows and feels the falsehoods of his assertions, is surely to
discover great ignorance of human nature and human life. In
determinations depending not on rules, but on experience and
comparison, judgment is always in some degree subject to affection.
Very near to admiration is the wish to admire.

Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and
considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of
discernment. We admire in a friend that understanding that selected