Excerpt from Walter Headlam, His Letters and Poems: With a Memoir by Cecil Headlam, and a Bibliography by L. Haward The Bentleys were a West Riding family, a yeoman race of no great eminence, as the world counts 'eminence, before Richard Bentley made it immortal in the annals of English literature. This appears to be the fact, in spite of the efforts of Richard Cumberland, the dramatist, Bentley's grandson, to prove their claim to aristocratic descent. At any rate they had done nothing more memorably aristocratic than to ...
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Excerpt from Walter Headlam, His Letters and Poems: With a Memoir by Cecil Headlam, and a Bibliography by L. Haward The Bentleys were a West Riding family, a yeoman race of no great eminence, as the world counts 'eminence, before Richard Bentley made it immortal in the annals of English literature. This appears to be the fact, in spite of the efforts of Richard Cumberland, the dramatist, Bentley's grandson, to prove their claim to aristocratic descent. At any rate they had done nothing more memorably aristocratic than to get themselves born and buried, before Richard Bentley was made Master of Trinity College, before he crossed blades with the young wits of Oxford and drew upon himself the brilliant but capricious lightning of Swift's satiric genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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