Excerpt from Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent: With Letters, Poems, and Appendices There was also another side to Robert Nugent's character. He was a poet, a ban vivant and a wit, and this brought him in contact with some of the brilliant people of the day. As will be seen, his powers as a poet have been doubted, and his principal poetic effort, the Ode to Pulteney, ascribed to Mallet, just as Garth, we are told, did not write his own Dispensary.' There is nothing more, even in Gray's imputation, than mere suspicion, and it is quite certain that his reputation as a wit could not have been obtained in any such manner. Lord Chesterfield's opinion of him in that regard is clearly manifested 'in his letters to Nugent, a fact which, with the other contemporary judgments which I have set out elsewhere, will go far to explain why I have thought his correspondence and some anecdotes worthy of a separate place in this memoir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.