After this, in addition to the true saying, defend us from our friends one may exclaim, 'defend us from our executors and editors.'


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Life by Warburton, p 70.

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Life of Warburton, p. 63.

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Gray migrated to Pembroke in 1756.

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The accomplished novelist, Mrs. Gore, famous for her facility, used to say that a three-volume novel just 'dripped from her pen.'

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Sir Robert Walpole purchased a house and garden at Chelsea in 1722, near the college, adjoining Gough House.—Cunningham's 'London.'

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Afterwards the well-known and dissolute Marquis of Hertford.

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None of the addresses sent in having given satisfaction, Lord Byron was requested to write one, which he did.

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Another version is that Tom replied: 'You don't happen to have it about you, sir, do you?'