The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... assure you distresses the Pelhams infinitely more than a mysterious meeting of the States would , 1 The street in Florence where Mr. Mann lived . and far more than the abrupt breaking up of the 10 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... assure you distresses the Pelhams infinitely more than a mysterious meeting of the States would , 1 The street in Florence where Mr. Mann lived . and far more than the abrupt breaking up of the 10 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... lived , his unbounded generosity and contempt of money would have run him into vast difficulties . However irreparable his personal loss may be to his friends , he cer- tainly died critically well for himself : he had lived to stand the ...
... lived , his unbounded generosity and contempt of money would have run him into vast difficulties . However irreparable his personal loss may be to his friends , he cer- tainly died critically well for himself : he had lived to stand the ...
Pagina 27
... lived . If it would not sound ridiculously , though , I assure you , I am far from feeling it lightly , I would tell you of poor Patapan's death : he died about ten days ago . This peace with the Elector of Bavaria may produce a general ...
... lived . If it would not sound ridiculously , though , I assure you , I am far from feeling it lightly , I would tell you of poor Patapan's death : he died about ten days ago . This peace with the Elector of Bavaria may produce a general ...
Pagina 34
... lived chiefly for his last years with Sir Edward Walpole , who had pro- cured for him a small place in the Custom - house , and to whom he left his papers : he had lost his intellects some time before his death . [ He died a martyr to ...
... lived chiefly for his last years with Sir Edward Walpole , who had pro- cured for him a small place in the Custom - house , and to whom he left his papers : he had lost his intellects some time before his death . [ He died a martyr to ...
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... lived in the last war than in this ; I mean as to the pleasantness of writing letters . Two or three battles won , two or three towns taken , in a summer , were pretty objects to keep up the liveliness of a correspondence . But now it ...
... lived in the last war than in this ; I mean as to the pleasantness of writing letters . Two or three battles won , two or three towns taken , in a summer , were pretty objects to keep up the liveliness of a correspondence . But now it ...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 2 Horace Walpole Volledige weergave - 1840 |
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 2 Horace Walpole Volledige weergave - 1840 |
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 2 Horace Walpole Volledige weergave - 1840 |
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Adieu affair afterwards Arlington Street army asked Balmerino battle battle of Fontenoy believe brother Charles charming Chute Conway Countess court daughter dear child DEAR GEORGE death died Duchess Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle Duke's eldest England English expect extremely father fear Flanders Florence France French GEORGE MONTAGU give hear heard honour hundred Ireland Jacobite King King's Lady Charlotte Boyle letter lived Lord Bath Lord Chesterfield Lord Gower Lord Granville Lord Kilmarnock Lord Sandwich Lyttelton Madame Marquis married minister ministry Miss morning never night Orford Parliament peace Pelham Pitt Pretender pretty Prince Princess rebellion rebels received regiment scarce Scotch Scotland sent SIR HORACE MANN Sir John sister Strawberry Hill taken talk tell thing Thomas thousand pounds told town Townshend Wade Walpole week wife William write yesterday young
Populaire passages
Pagina 285 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Pagina 83 - ' said Lamb, "that were ever paid by the wit of man. Each of them is worth an estate for life — nay, is an immortality. There is that superb one to Lord Cornbury: 'Despise low joys, low gains; Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.
Pagina 257 - I am almost as fond of the Sharawaffffi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens. I am sure, whenever you come to England, you will be pleased with the liberty of taste into which we are struck, and of which you can have no idea!
Pagina 300 - Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. ' ;' Had it been the whole generation, , , . Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Pagina 141 - ... arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation. He was not a quarter of an hour on the scaffold ; Lord Kilmarnock above half a one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one...
Pagina 19 - I had rather have written the most absurd lines in Lee, than Leonidas or the Seasons ; as I had rather be put into the round-house for a wrongheaded quarrel, than sup quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside," who writes Odes : in one he has lately published, he says, " Light the tapers, urge the fire.
Pagina 243 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Pagina 139 - He took no notice of the crowd, only to desire that the baize might be lifted up from the rails, that the mob might see the spectacle. He stood and prayed some time with Forster, who wept over him, exhorted and encouraged him. He delivered a long speech to the Sheriff, and with a noble manliness stuck to the recantation he had made at his trial; declaring he wished that all who embarked in the same cause might meet the same fate. He then took off his bag, coat and...
Pagina 135 - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more." The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
Pagina 140 - If I had a thousand lives, I would lay them all down here in the same cause.