English Men of Letters PDF Download

Author: George W. Russell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732669696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Reproduction of the original: English Men of Letters by George W. Russell

Author: John Morley
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: James Anthony Froude, Leslie Stephen, R.W. Church, Dean of St. Paul's
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Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: H. D. Traill
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387059639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Alfred Lyall
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Sir Alfred Lyall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147338625X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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A beautiful biography of one of Britain's most popular poets. Alfred Tennyson was the poet laureate of Great Britain and Ireland for most of the reign of Queen Victoria, a complex and brilliant man, this is a must read for any fan of English poetry.

Author: Alfred Ainger
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Men of Letters: Crabbe" by Alfred Ainger. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Roberto Bracco
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 9781465514738
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Languages : en
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Author: Austin Dobson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387056303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465615261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Thomas Swift married Elizabeth Dryden, niece of Sir Erasmus, the grandfather of the poet Dryden. By her he became the father of ten sons and four daughters. In the great rebellion he distinguished himself by a loyalty which was the cause of obvious complacency to his descendant. On one occasion he came to the governor of a town held for the king, and being asked what he could do for his Majesty, laid down his coat as an offering. The governor remarked that his coat was worth little. “Then,” said Swift, “take my waistcoat.” The waistcoat was lined with three hundred broad pieces—a handsome offering from a poor and plundered clergyman. On another occasion he armed a ford, through which rebel cavalry were to pass, by certain pieces of iron with four spikes, so contrived that one spike must always be uppermost (caltrops, in short). Two hundred of the enemy were destroyed by this stratagem. The success of the rebels naturally led to the ruin of this cavalier clergyman; and the record of his calamities forms a conspicuous article in Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy. He died in 1658, before the advent of the better times in which he might have been rewarded for his loyal services. His numerous family had to struggle for a living. The eldest son, Godwin Swift, was a barrister of Gray’s Inn at the time of the Restoration: he was married four times, and three times to women of fortune; his first wife had been related to the Ormond family; and this connexion induced him to seek his fortune in Ireland—a kingdom which at that time suffered, amongst other less endurable grievances, from a deficient supply of lawyers. Godwin Swift was made Attorney-General in the palatinate of Tipperary by the Duke of Ormond. He prospered in his profession, in the subtle parts of which, says his nephew, he was “perhaps a little too dexterous;” and he engaged in various speculations, having at one time what was then the very large income of 3000l. a year. Four brothers accompanied this successful Godwin, and shared to some extent in his prosperity. In January, 1666, one of these, Jonathan, married to Abigail Erick, of Leicester, was appointed to the stewardship of the King’s Inns, Dublin, partly in consideration of the loyalty and suffering of his family. Some fifteen months later, in April, 1667, he died, leaving his widow with an infant daughter, and seven months after her husband’s death, November 30, 1667, she gave birth to Jonathan, the younger, at 7, Hoey’s Court, Dublin.