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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Pagina 21
... lost could have been of no service to you . How ridiculous it seems for me to renew protestations of my friendship for you , at an instant when my father is just dead , and the Spaniards just bursting into Tuscany ! How empty a charm ...
... lost could have been of no service to you . How ridiculous it seems for me to renew protestations of my friendship for you , at an instant when my father is just dead , and the Spaniards just bursting into Tuscany ! How empty a charm ...
Pagina 24
... lost in sending back , and then I must pay his two thousand doppie di Spagna . The refusing to receive them is positively all the notice I shall take of it . I inclose what I think a fine piece on my father : 1 it was written by Mr ...
... lost in sending back , and then I must pay his two thousand doppie di Spagna . The refusing to receive them is positively all the notice I shall take of it . I inclose what I think a fine piece on my father : 1 it was written by Mr ...
Pagina 28
... lost near so many officers . I pity the Duke , for it is almost the first bat- tle of consequence that we ever lost . By the letters arrived 1 The Marshal de Saxe did not die till 1750. He was , however , ex- ceedingly ill at the time ...
... lost near so many officers . I pity the Duke , for it is almost the first bat- tle of consequence that we ever lost . By the letters arrived 1 The Marshal de Saxe did not die till 1750. He was , however , ex- ceedingly ill at the time ...
Pagina 31
... lost so near a friend as your brother , ' tis sure the duty of all your other friends to endeavour to alleviate your loss , and offer all the increase of affection that is possible to compensate it . This I do most heartily ; I wish I ...
... lost so near a friend as your brother , ' tis sure the duty of all your other friends to endeavour to alleviate your loss , and offer all the increase of affection that is possible to compensate it . This I do most heartily ; I wish I ...
Pagina 32
... lost more men than we did . Our army is still at Lessines , waiting for recruits from Holland and England ; ours are sailed . The King is at Hanover . All the letters are full of the Duke's humanity and bravery : he will be as popular ...
... lost more men than we did . Our army is still at Lessines , waiting for recruits from Holland and England ; ours are sailed . The King is at Hanover . All the letters are full of the Duke's humanity and bravery : he will be as popular ...
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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.