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Minto's identification of Shakespeare's rival with Chapman -- a conjecture with which I, in 1896, expressed strong sympathy in my _Shakspere and his Predecessors_.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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The pleasurable sensations excited by Lord Minto's most kind and friendly communications, were succeeded by the most racking anxieties respecting Malta.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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We were quieter when we got into mischief; as when we made a raid on Lord Minto's dressing-room, and each ate two or three of his compressed luncheon tablets and also helped ourselves to some of his pills.
Lady John Russell Ed 1910
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[20] [20] From a sonnet to Lady John Russell by Lord Wriothesley Russel, written after reading Lady Minto's ballad in which these words occur:
Lady John Russell Ed 1910
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There are only two long breaks in the diary she kept, when she had no heart to write down her thoughts; one occurs during the year of Lady Minto's long and serious illness at Berlin, which began in
Lady John Russell Ed 1910
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Lady Minto's nephew, Lord Fitzharris, the son of the Earl of Malmesbury, was then in Vienna, apparently as an attache.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
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Minto's skilful treatment, became gorgeous enough for the most exacting Asiatic, with its black marble floor, its rose-coloured silk walls where great silver sconces alternated with full-length portraits of British sovereigns, its white "chunam" columns and its gilt Italian furniture.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Lady Lansdowne returned to India eighteen years after leaving it, for the marriage of her son (who was killed in the first three months of the war) to Lord Minto's daughter, and I accompanied her.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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On the strength of these quotations, and accepting Professor Minto's line of argument, Nash, Thorpe, or Blount, whose 'familiar' is declared to have been no less a personage than Marlowe, has as good a claim as Chapman to be the rival poet of Shakespeare's sonnets.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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There had been abortive plots against Lord Minto's life, but it had been deemed politic to minimise their importance.
India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890
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