-Sir William Temple
143 Words
Occasioned by Sir William Temple's late illness and recovery
WRITTEN IN DECEMBER, 1693
[Footnote 1: Dorothy, Sir William Temple's wife, a daughter of Sir Peter Osborne. She was in some way related to Swift's mother, which led to Temple taking Swift into his family. Dorothy died in January, 1695, at Moor Park, aged 65, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Sir William died in January, 1698, "and with him," says Swift, "all that was good and amiable among men." He was buried in Westminster Abbey by the side of his wife.--W. E. B.]
[Footnote 2: Swift's poetical name for Dorothy, Lady Temple.--W. E. B.]
[Footnote 3:
"--when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main."
POPE, Essay on Criticism, 372-3.]
[Footnote 4:
"Hic murus aheneus esto,
Nil conseire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa."
HOR., Epist. 1, I, 60.]
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