The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts ...Lea and Blanchard, 1842 |
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... certainly espouse the latter . Guess how the Duke stared at so strange and unnecessary a declaration ! Pigwiggin's Princess has mis - pigged , to the great - joy , I believe , of that family , for you know a child must have eaten ...
... certainly espouse the latter . Guess how the Duke stared at so strange and unnecessary a declaration ! Pigwiggin's Princess has mis - pigged , to the great - joy , I believe , of that family , for you know a child must have eaten ...
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... certainly was a compliment , and the more profit ( which however could not be immense ) he expected to make , the greater opinion he must have conceived of the merit of the work if one had a mind to defend Pope , should not one ask if ...
... certainly was a compliment , and the more profit ( which however could not be immense ) he expected to make , the greater opinion he must have conceived of the merit of the work if one had a mind to defend Pope , should not one ask if ...
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... Certainly , I am born to preferment ; I gave an old woman a penny once , who prayed that I might live to be lord mayor of London ! What pleased me most in my travels was Dr. Sayer's parsonage at Witham , which , with Southcote's help ...
... Certainly , I am born to preferment ; I gave an old woman a penny once , who prayed that I might live to be lord mayor of London ! What pleased me most in my travels was Dr. Sayer's parsonage at Witham , which , with Southcote's help ...
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... certainly robed for the act of putting into bed to her ; but when the King came to marry her , he only put his leg into bed to kick her out of it . I have set up my staff , and finished my pilgrimages for this year . Sussex is a great ...
... certainly robed for the act of putting into bed to her ; but when the King came to marry her , he only put his leg into bed to kick her out of it . I have set up my staff , and finished my pilgrimages for this year . Sussex is a great ...
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... certainly one day or other die in one of those fits . Arundel , his great friend and relation , came to him soon after he repeated the conversation , and said , he did not know but he might die by night . " God bless you ! If I see you ...
... certainly one day or other die in one of those fits . Arundel , his great friend and relation , came to him soon after he repeated the conversation , and said , he did not know but he might die by night . " God bless you ! If I see you ...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) Volledige weergave - 1840 |
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Adieu Admiral afterwards Arlington Street asked beauty believe Bishop Bolingbroke brother called castle Chancellor Charles charming Chute Conway Countess court daughter dead dear Sir death died Duchess Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle Earl eldest England father Florence France French GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give Gothic Greatworth hear heard honour Ireland John King King's Lady Ailesbury Lady Caroline Lady Mary late letter live Lord Anson Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Hartington Lord Sandwich Lyttelton Madame married minister ministry Minorca Mirepoix Miss morning never night Oxford Parliament Pelham person persuaded Pitt poor Pope pretty Prince Princess Queen received RICHARD BENTLEY scarce sent Sir George SIR HORACE MANN sister Strawberry Hill suppose t'other talk tell thing Thomas thought thousand pounds to-day told town Townshend Walpole week whole wife write young
Populaire passages
Pagina 57 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Pagina 82 - 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 291 - the latter a gentle, feeble, languid stream, languid but not deep ; the other a boisterous and overbearing torrent ; but they join at last ; and long...
Pagina 62 - These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady Frances Arundel, and Lord and Lady Galway, who go this evening to an inn ten miles out of town, where they are to play at brag till five in the morning, and then come back — I suppose, to look for the bones of their husbands and families under the rubbish.
Pagina 98 - 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 45 - 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 296 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 296 - Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in language, but in both the last : The power of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Pagina 19 - The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty to thirty feet high : under them orangetrees, with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas in pots; and festoons of natural flowers hanging from tree to tree. Between the arches too were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short,...
Pagina 56 - About ten days ago, at the new Lady CobhamV assembly, Lord Hervey' was leaning over a chair talking to some women, and holding his hat in his hand. Lord Cobham came up and spit in it — yes, spit in it ! — and then, with a loud laugh, turned to Nugent, and said,