Pollexfen

I did not like the gentleman the better for what I had heard of him: but, perhaps, should have been less indifferent to his compliment, had I not before been acquainted with Mr. Greville, Mr. Fenwick, and Sir llargrave Pollexfen.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

And Mr. Reeves, after Sir John went away, said, What a glory will it be to you, cousin Byron, to reform such a man, and make his great fortune a blessing to multitudes; as I am sure would be your endeavour to do, were you Lady Pollexfen!

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Well might his sister say, that if he married, he would break half a score hearts. this vile Pollexfen! thought 1, at the moment; could he draw upon, has he hurt, such a man as this?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Handel, Sir Hargrave, is not an Englishman: but I must say, that of every person present, I least expected from Sir Hargrave Pollexfen this observation.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Her parents were William Pollexfen (1811-92) and Elizabeth Middleton Pollexfen (1819-92).

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Brother of Elizabeth Middleton Pollexfen and partner in the firm with William Pollexfen.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

To that multiplicity of interest and opinion, of arts and sciences, which had driven me to conceive a Unity of Culture defined and evoked by Unity of Image, I had but added a multiplicity of images, and I was the more troubled because, the first excitement over, I had done nothing to rouse George Pollexfen from the gloom and hypochondria always thickening about him.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Born at Berry Head, near the port of Brixham, Devonshire, son of Anthony Pollexfen (1781-1833) and Mary Stephens (1771-1830) of Co. Wexford.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The Middleton and Pollexfen flour mills were at Ballisodare, and a great salmon weir, rapids, and a waterfall, but it was more often at Rosses that I saw my cousin.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Yet it was a Yeats who spoke the only eulogy that turns my head: ‘We have ideas and no passions, but by marriage with a Pollexfen we have given a tongue to the sea cliffs’.59

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965