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Page 172
... lord Halifax likewise sent to the lady Elizabeth and Mr Charles Dryden her son , that , if they would give him leave to bury Mr Dryden , he would inter him with a gentleman's private funeral , and after- wards bestow five hundred pounds ...
... lord Halifax likewise sent to the lady Elizabeth and Mr Charles Dryden her son , that , if they would give him leave to bury Mr Dryden , he would inter him with a gentleman's private funeral , and after- wards bestow five hundred pounds ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. bishop of Rochester's favour , nor of the lord Halifax's generous design ( they both having , out of respect to the family , enjoined the lady Elizabeth and her son to keep their favour concealed to the ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. bishop of Rochester's favour , nor of the lord Halifax's generous design ( they both having , out of respect to the family , enjoined the lady Elizabeth and her son to keep their favour concealed to the ...
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... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . - When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad , that Lord desired to have the pleasure of hearing them read at his house ...
... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . - When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad , that Lord desired to have the pleasure of hearing them read at his house ...
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