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One of the houses they visited at the time was Fryston, Lord Houghton’s, and here they met many of the most celebrated people of the day; for wit and beauty, rank and talent, met on common ground around the table of him “whom men call Lord Houghton, but the gods Monckton Milnes.”
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The first is a most singular charge preferred against me by my old friend Lord Houghton, that I have been somewhat unconscious of the merits of the House of Lords.
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But poor Lord Houghton was too far gone to appreciate the jest.
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"Lord Perry has asked to call upon Lord Houghton tomorrow morning," she said.
Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998
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Be that as it may, all agree with Lord Houghton, who laughed at the phrase, that we know how "to have a good time."
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Kirkintilloch, and there had peacefully passed away, leaving as his legacy to the world the volume of beautiful poems published under the auspices of Lord Houghton.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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His body lies just without the east window and the grave is thus described by Lord Houghton: --
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Richard Monckton Milnes, and the capacity for public speech, which was such a characteristic of the first Lord Houghton, exists no less gracefully in his poetic and now Vice-Regal son; but it was, perhaps, as
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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The beautiful _châtelaine_, the lovely Duchess of Leinster, was walking through the fields one Sunday afternoon with Lord Houghton.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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'That may be; but I represent the Queen,' replied Lord Houghton, with unruffled imperturbability.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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