“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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Page 64
... Robert Walpole . Next year , when the violence of party made twelve peers in a day , Mr. Granville became Lord Landsdowne Baron Bideford , by a promotion justly remarked to be not 64 GRANVILLE .
... Robert Walpole . Next year , when the violence of party made twelve peers in a day , Mr. Granville became Lord Landsdowne Baron Bideford , by a promotion justly remarked to be not 64 GRANVILLE .
Page 76
... Sir Robert Walpole by mar- rying his sister . He was born about 1710 , and educated at Westminster - school ; but it does not appear that he was of any university . He was equerry to the Prince of Wales , and seems to have come very ...
... Sir Robert Walpole by mar- rying his sister . He was born about 1710 , and educated at Westminster - school ; but it does not appear that he was of any university . He was equerry to the Prince of Wales , and seems to have come very ...
Page 107
... Sir Robert Walpole , for which he was rewarded by him with twenty guineas ; a sum not very large , if either the excellence of the performance , or the affluence of the patron , be considered ; but greater than he afterwards obtained ...
... Sir Robert Walpole , for which he was rewarded by him with twenty guineas ; a sum not very large , if either the excellence of the performance , or the affluence of the patron , be considered ; but greater than he afterwards obtained ...
Page 129
... Sir Robert Walpole in his favour with so much earnestness that they obtained a promise of the next place that should ... Lord Bolingbroke , whom he mentions with great regard in an " Epistle upon Authors , " which he wrote about ...
... Sir Robert Walpole in his favour with so much earnestness that they obtained a promise of the next place that should ... Lord Bolingbroke , whom he mentions with great regard in an " Epistle upon Authors , " which he wrote about ...
Page 140
... Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the performance of his promise , he was now abandoned again to fortune . He was , however , at that time , supported by a friend ; and as it was not his ...
... Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the performance of his promise , he was now abandoned again to fortune . He was , however , at that time , supported by a friend ; and as it was not his ...
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