AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA,"
OF ENGLISH POETS," ETC.

"LIVES

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1855.
P

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HON.

HENRY ROBERT, LORD ROSSMORE,

LORD-LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF MONAGHAN,
&c., &c.,

IN MEMORY

OF SOME HAPPY HOURS IN THE SOLITUDES OF GLEN
EERZA, AND AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE TO QUALITIES
OF HEAD AND HEART WHICH MAKE THE
MAN RESPECTED AND THE
PRIVATE BELOVED,

PUBLIC

This Biography is Inscribed,

BY

THE AUTHOR.