Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ii- m Ti 60 sshl 4 ^ Jl a CO-) ^O^ V. GEORGE GRANVILLE 1667—1734-5 A FRIEND and patron of Pope, commended by Waller, and aTreasurer in Queens Annes household. Lord Lansdowne wrote likea gentleman ; praising and petting the poets, he was praised bythem. Although shut up in the Tower as an adherent of thePretender, Lord Lansdowne escaped the block, and returned to theworld to appear again in Parliament and to edit his poems. LOVE IS BY FANCY LED ABOUT

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