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Restoration & Augustan

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

1694–1773

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), was a statesman, diplomat and celebrated wit, now best known for his Letters to his Son on manners and the conduct of life.

The epigram here is the one James Parton printed under his name in his anthology of English humorous poetry.

Poems (3)

  1. On a Full-length Portrait of Beau Marsh
  2. Advice to a Lady in Autumn
  3. On Lord Islay's Garden at Whitton, on Hounslow Heath

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