tning that breaks through a gloom of clouds,
and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight
in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual
serenity."--ADDISON, _Spectator_, p. 381.

96 The husband of the Lady Warwick who married Addison, and the father
of the young earl, who was brought to his stepfather's bed to see
"how a Christian could die". He was amongst the wildest of the
nobility of that day; and in the curious collection of Chap-Books at
the British Museum, I have seen more than one anecdote of the freaks
of the gay lord. He was popular in London, as such daring spirits
have been in our time. The anecdotists speak very kindly of his
practical jokes. Mohun was scarcely out of prison for his second
homicide, when he went on Lord Macclesfield's embassy to the Elector
of Hanover, when Queen Anne sent the garter to H. E. Highness. The
chronicler of the expedition speaks of his lordship as an amiable
young man, who had been in bad company, but was quite repentant and
reformed. He and Macartney afterwards murdered the Duke of Hamilton
between them, in which act Lord Mohun died. This amiable baron's
name was Charles, and not Henry, as a recent novelist has christened
him.

97 "Steele had the greatest veneration for Addison, and used to show
it, in all companies, in a particular manner. Addison, now and then,
used to play a little upon them; but he always took it well."--POPE
(_Spence's Anecdotes_).

"Sir Richard Steele was the best-natured creature in the world: even
in his worst state of health, he seemed to desire nothing but to
please and be pleased."--DR. YOUNG (_Spence's Anecdotes_).

98 The gaiety of his dramatic tone may be seen in this little scene
between two brilliant sisters, from his comedy, _The Funeral, or
Grief a la Mode_. Dick wrote this, he said, from "a necessity of
enlivening his character", which, it seemed, the _Christian Hero_
had a tendency to make too decorous, grave, and respectable in the
eyes of readers of that pious piece.

[_Scene draws, and discovers_ LADY CHARLOTTE, _reading at a
table,_--LADY HARRIET, _playing at a glass, to and fro, and viewing
herself._]

_L. Ha._--Nay, good sister, you may as well talk to me [_looking at
herself as she speaks