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Hinchinbrook (from his course Cook could not see the channel and did not realise that he was bestowing a name upon an island) commemorates the family seat of the Montagus; Cape Sandwich (the north-east point of Hinchinbrook) the older title, and Dunk Isle the family name of the distinguished friend of the great discoverer of lands.
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Lorenzo unites the lovers, hoping hereby to reconciliate the hostile houses of the Montagus and the Capulets.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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In November the Montagus interrupted their stay at Vienna to visit some of the German Courts.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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Pope went to live at Twickenham in 1718, and it was generally believed that it was by his persuasion that the Montagus rented a house in that little riverside hamlet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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The Montagus had been married for seven-and-twenty years; their younger child was now twenty-one.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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So little is known of the domestic relations of the Montagus that it is hazardous to advance a conjecture.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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It has been said that it arose out of the fact that Pope lent the Montagus a pair of sheets and that they were returned unwashed, to the great indignation of his mother who lived with him.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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Only so far were they ever reconciled that he would occasionally visit the Montagus at their London house and play with the children.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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"Triumvirate," as it was called, which included the two Montagus, and the
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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Toward her and Sir Lionel I feel as Mercutio felt toward the Montagus and Capulets: "A plague on both your houses!"
Set in Silver 1901
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