. Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the
preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to
shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. . Obeying
some fine instinct, she had come to the prison in a dark veil, but she had pushed
this up to kiss Ann Veronica and never drawn it down again. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. A rock gave way to deep
water. ‘You see, it is that my papa, he is without sympathy,’ said the lady sadly. “Are you going on again this
winter with that scientific work of yours? It’s an instance of heredity, I suppose. In this cell was a huntsman, who had fractured his skull
while hunting, and was perpetually hallooing after the hounds;—in that, the most
melancholy of all, the grinning gibbering lunatic, the realization of "moody
madness, laughing wild. .
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