Word: earle
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...summary of the play has been written by Dekker the author of the play. It is as follows: "Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which...
...Copeland's lecture yesterday consisted entirely of selections from Johnson's Letters and Works, and from Boswell's Life. The selections included Johnson's letters to the Earl of Chesterfield and to his mother on her death bed. Sever 11 was crowded to the doors as heretofore...
...desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration he was engaged only the last three years of his life, during which he wrote the poems which have made him so well-known...
...Alexander '99, Burr; Percy Arad Atherton 1900, Burr; Charles Hamiton Ayres '98, Bartlett; William Galliford Bale 1900, Bowditch; William Lester Barnes 1900, Class of 1817; Lynn Stanley Beals 1900, Class of 1828; Leon Gage Beely 1900, Sewall; Alfred Abraham Benesch 1900, Price Greenleaf; Harold Bisbee 1900, Class of 1841; Earl Danford Bond 1900, Bowditch; Harry Cook Boynton 1900, William Merrick; Ralph Fanning Butts '99, Henry Bromfield Rogers; Ashton Livermore Carr '99, Burr; John Allen Child 1900, Sever; Richmond Lane Chipman '98, Orlando W. Doe; John Taggart Clark '98, Price Greenleaf; Lyman Kenneth Clark 1900, Sewall; Harry Justin Colburn 1900, Sales...
...followed by the Earl of Orkney, who held the nominal title of governor for forty years, but who governed by means of deputies whom he sent out. Perhaps the most famous of these was Alexander Spottswood, who came over in 1710. His most memorable act was the conducting of an expedition, consisting of fifty men, over the hitherto unexplored Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley. Spottswood too was in 1722 removed as the result of a dispute with Dr. Blair concerning the governors right to appoint the clergy to their parishes...