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... married the heiress of Simon de Frankley , down to the present Lord Lyttelton , whom Burke and Lodge style Baron Lyttelton of Frankley , and who in his younger days was senior classic at Cambridge , the sixth holder of the title of ...
... married the heiress of Simon de Frankley , down to the present Lord Lyttelton , whom Burke and Lodge style Baron Lyttelton of Frankley , and who in his younger days was senior classic at Cambridge , the sixth holder of the title of ...
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... marriage to Sir Richard Hoare , Bart , of that place . The fact , however , is that Lord Lyttelton's life had been of so licentious and abandoned a character as to subject him continually to the keenest reproaches of an ac- cusing ...
... marriage to Sir Richard Hoare , Bart , of that place . The fact , however , is that Lord Lyttelton's life had been of so licentious and abandoned a character as to subject him continually to the keenest reproaches of an ac- cusing ...
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... marriage had brought him no issue . The family baronetcy , however , reverted to his uncle , William Lyttelton , some time British Minister at Lisbon , who had been created an Irish peer by the title of Lord Westcote , and in 1794 ...
... marriage had brought him no issue . The family baronetcy , however , reverted to his uncle , William Lyttelton , some time British Minister at Lisbon , who had been created an Irish peer by the title of Lord Westcote , and in 1794 ...
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... married into the noble families of Devereux , Earl of Essex , and Clifford , Earl of Cumberland . The third Lord Wharton had the misfortune of losing both his sons in his own lifetime , the elder being killed in a duel with his friend ...
... married into the noble families of Devereux , Earl of Essex , and Clifford , Earl of Cumberland . The third Lord Wharton had the misfortune of losing both his sons in his own lifetime , the elder being killed in a duel with his friend ...
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... marriage an only daughter , from whom the present Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and Lord Cholmondeley are maternally descended ; and also by his second marriage a son , Thomas , who in due course . became fifth Lord Wharton . As his father ...
... marriage an only daughter , from whom the present Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and Lord Cholmondeley are maternally descended ; and also by his second marriage a son , Thomas , who in due course . became fifth Lord Wharton . As his father ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...