CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, THE SCOTTISH HORACE WALPOLE
... Wyvth, Certainly, numberless poetical beauties. Mil- ton was a Whig, and, in my mind, an Atheist. I am persuaded his poem was composed to apologiss for the devil, who cer- tainly was the first Whig on record. He entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798, ...