E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Wharton.
Philip Wharton, Duke of Northumberland, described by Pope in the Moral Essays in the lines beginning—
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“Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days.”
A most brilliant orator, but so licentious that he wasted his patrimony in drunkenness and self-indulgence. He was outlawed for treason, and died in a wretched condition at a Bernardine convent in Catalonia. (1698–1731.)
