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singularity of opinion, vivacity of ridicule & well bred epigrams were the means by which Ld Oxford sought distinction; --in his composition however he had something more predominant than wit, --a cold unfeeling disposition, which contemned literary men, at the moment his heart panted to share their fame, --while his peculiar habits of Society declined every impression of grandeur in the human character.--

his descriptions are lax & general, --they delineate nothing that is individual