This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...f Note in Coxe, vol. L p. 9. disliked, whose leaders he personally hated, as they did him." This assertion, in which the reputations of two persons are sacrificed by a side-blow, alludes to a report prevalent during the prosperous years of Lady Marlborough's life, and called into being by that very prosperity. It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...f Note in Coxe, vol. L p. 9. disliked, whose leaders he personally hated, as they did him." This assertion, in which the reputations of two persons are sacrificed by a side-blow, alludes to a report prevalent during the prosperous years of Lady Marlborough's life, and called into being by that very prosperity. It originated with Swift's tool, Mrs. Manley, or, as she chose to call herself, Rivella, who was subsequently employed by the Tory party in their periodical, "The Examiner," after Swift had relinquished his part in it: but he has not blushed to acknowledge that he supplied this disgrace to her sex with much of the venom poured out upon the Whigs, in that noted publication. By the agency of Mrs. Manley, a rumour was spread abroad reflecting on the nature of that friendly connexion between the Marlborough family and Godolphin, which a closer tieafterwards cemented. An intrigue of the grossest character was described, by the pen of that wretched woman, as having taken place between the Lord Treasurer and the Countess of Marlborough; whilst even her devoted husband was alleged to have been acquainted with it, and to have connived at it for purposes of his own interest, and from party motives-! Coxe. f Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 41. These calumnies, which, says the anonymous author of the Duchess's Life, "however improbable it seems, we remember the time when many people believed more firmly than they did their creed," originated in the intimacy, both personally and in correspondence, not only between the Earl of Marlborough and the Lord Treasurer, -but between Godolphin and the able and influential woman whose intellectual sway asserted an enduring power over both these good and distinguished men. In all the difficult...
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