Note 207 — ALEXANDER POPE.
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Cardinal: and Minister to Louis XV. [208] This couplet alludes to the preachers of some recent Court Sermons of a florid panegyrical character; also to some speeches of a like kind, some parts of both of which were afterwards incorporated in an address to the monarch. [209] Dr. Conyers Middleton, author of the Life of Cicero. [210] Queen Consort to King George II. She died in 1737. [211] A title given to Lord Selkirk by King James II. He was Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to William III., to George I., and to George II. He was proficient in all the forms of the House, in which he comported himself with great dignity. [212] Referring to Lady M.W. Montagu and her sister, the Countess of Mar.