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Lovelace

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Lovelace
1. Countess of, title of Ada Augusta King. 1815--52, English mathematician and personal assistant to Charles Babbage: daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program
2. Richard. 1618--58, English Cavalier poet, noted for To Althea from Prison (1642) and Lucasta (1649)


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The first of these songs was written by Lovelace while he was in prison for having presented a petition to the House of Commons asking that King Charles might be restored to the throne.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
From the equally chaotic product of Colonel Richard Lovelace stand out the two well-known bits of noble idealism, 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,' and 'To Althea, from Prison.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Well, I have never set up for a man of the world, though sometimes when I have heard the Lovelaces of the day hinting mysteriously at their secret sins or boasting of their florid gallantries, I have remembered the last verse of Suckling's "Ballad of a Wedding," which, no doubt, the reader knows as well as I, and if not, it will increase his acquaintance with our brave old poetry to look it up.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
 
 
 
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