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After more searching all we knew was that Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington and fourth Earl of Cork, had been known as “the architect earl” because of his role in reviving Palladian architecture in England, making it the generally accepted style for country houses and public buildings.
The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010
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Robert Boyle (1627 – 1691) was born at Lismore Castle, Munster, Ireland, the 14th child of the Earl of Cork.
Boyle, Robert 2008
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Probably encouraged by Johnson, and helped by John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery, she wrote the first comparative study of Shakespeare's source material, entitled Shakespear Illustrated (1753-54).
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William's ambassador; but to Evelyn, Addison, Dr. Lister, Kent, when he accompanied Lord Burlington through France to Italy; to the Earl of Cork and Orrery (the translator of Pliny's Letters), whose gardens at
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Indeed, Marcombes was a very good governor, as Robert several times assured the Earl of Cork, and allowed them to lack for nothing.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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In the chantry of Our Blessed Saviour, or south transept, besides the memorial to the founder and his countess, is the grotesque mausoleum, in florid, glaring Italian style, to the Earl of Cork and his family.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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In 1645, Castlehaven attacked it, but was repulsed by Broghill, fifth son of the Earl of Cork.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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And Miss Boyle, the niece of the Earl of Cork, and authoress and poetess on her own account, having been introduced once to Robert in London at Lady Morgan's, has hunted us out and paid us a visit.
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He possessed a large estate, granted out of forfeited lands in Ireland; but this was always a source rather of expense than of profit, until, in 1601, he sold it to the Earl of Cork.
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And Miss Boyle, the niece of the Earl of Cork, and authoress and poetess on her own account, having been introduced once to Robert in London at Lady Morgan's, has hunted us out and paid us a visit.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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