Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 215
... Daylesford , in Worcestershire , claimed to be considered as the heads of this distinguished family . The main stock , indeed , prospered less than some of the younger shoots . But the Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was ...
... Daylesford , in Worcestershire , claimed to be considered as the heads of this distinguished family . The main stock , indeed , prospered less than some of the younger shoots . But the Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was ...
Page 216
... Daylesford still remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was sold to a merchant of London . Before this transfer took place , the last Hastings of Daylesford had presented his ...
... Daylesford still remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was sold to a merchant of London . Before this transfer took place , the last Hastings of Daylesford had presented his ...
Page 217
... Daylesford . And when his long public life , so singularly chequered with good and evil , with glory and obloquy , had at length closed for ever , it was to Daylesford that he retired to die . When he was eight years old , his uncle ...
... Daylesford . And when his long public life , so singularly chequered with good and evil , with glory and obloquy , had at length closed for ever , it was to Daylesford that he retired to die . When he was eight years old , his uncle ...
Page 321
... Daylesford . For , through all changes of scene and changes of fortune , remained unchanged his attachment to the spot which had witnessed the greatness and the fall of his family , and which had borne so great a part in the first ...
... Daylesford . For , through all changes of scene and changes of fortune , remained unchanged his attachment to the spot which had witnessed the greatness and the fall of his family , and which had borne so great a part in the first ...
Page 342
... Daylesford . At length , in the very year in which his trial com- menced , the wish was accomplished ; and the domain , alie- nated more than seventy years before , returned to the descen- dant of its old lords . But the manor house was ...
... Daylesford . At length , in the very year in which his trial com- menced , the wish was accomplished ; and the domain , alie- nated more than seventy years before , returned to the descen- dant of its old lords . But the manor house was ...
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