Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Walpole wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by ...
... Walpole wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by ...
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... Walpole wrote on Aug. 5 , 1752 ( Letters , ii . 296 ) : - ' While they were changing our horses at Bromley we went to see the Bishop of Rochester's palace ; not for the sake of anything there was to be seen , but because there was a ...
... Walpole wrote on Aug. 5 , 1752 ( Letters , ii . 296 ) : - ' While they were changing our horses at Bromley we went to see the Bishop of Rochester's palace ; not for the sake of anything there was to be seen , but because there was a ...
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... Walpole was elected a Fellow , Gray wrote to him : - ' This is only a beginning ; I reckon next week we shall hear you are a Free - Mason , or a Gormogon at least . ' Gray's Letters , i . 157 . Johnson improved ' the method of arranging ...
... Walpole was elected a Fellow , Gray wrote to him : - ' This is only a beginning ; I reckon next week we shall hear you are a Free - Mason , or a Gormogon at least . ' Gray's Letters , i . 157 . Johnson improved ' the method of arranging ...
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... - mons from the Convention of 1688-9 onwards ' ( ib . p . 9 ) . Horace Walpole tells the story of the Earl of Shaftes- bury , Works , i . 429 ; as does Mac- 8 After this he rose fast into honours and employments HALIFAX 43.
... - mons from the Convention of 1688-9 onwards ' ( ib . p . 9 ) . Horace Walpole tells the story of the Earl of Shaftes- bury , Works , i . 429 ; as does Mac- 8 After this he rose fast into honours and employments HALIFAX 43.
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... Walpole , having misquoted a line in Halifax , excused himself as ' happily not being very accurately read in so indifferent an author . ' Anec . of Painting , iii . 194 . It is a remarkable proof of Hali- fax's self - knowledge that ...
... Walpole , having misquoted a line in Halifax , excused himself as ' happily not being very accurately read in so indifferent an author . ' Anec . of Painting , iii . 194 . It is a remarkable proof of Hali- fax's self - knowledge that ...
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