said, 'Be
good, be virtuous, my lord; you must come to this.' Thus he continued
giving his dying benediction to all around him. On Monday morning a
lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening;
and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday
morning, August 22, when, between seven and eight o'clock, he expired,
almost without a groan."

His lordship was buried at Hagley, and the following inscription is cut
on the side of his lady's monument:--

"This unadorned stone was placed here by the particular
desire and express directions of the Right Honourable
GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON,
who died August 22, 1773, aged 64."

Lord Lyttelton's Poems are the works of a man of literature and
judgment, devoting part of his time to versification. They have nothing
to be despised, and little to be admired. Of his "Progress of Love,"
it is sufficient blame to say that it is pastoral. His blank verse
in "Blenheim" has neither much force nor much elegance. His little
performances, whether songs or epigrams, are sometimes sprightly, and
sometimes insipid. His epistolary pieces have a smooth equability, which
cannot much tire, because they are short, but which seldom elevates or
surprises. But from this censure ought to be excepted his "Advice to
Belinda," which, though for the most part written when he was very
young, contains much truth and much prudence, very elegantly and
vigorously expressed, and shows a mind attentive to life, and a power of
poetry which cultivation might have raised to excellence.

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