Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany, Volume 2G. Dearborn, 1833 |
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Pagina 12
... answer one I re- ceived from you yesterday . You will excuse me , if I am not quite so transported as Mr. Chute is , at the extremity of Ac- quaviva . * I can't afford to hate people so much at such a distance my aversions find ...
... answer one I re- ceived from you yesterday . You will excuse me , if I am not quite so transported as Mr. Chute is , at the extremity of Ac- quaviva . * I can't afford to hate people so much at such a distance my aversions find ...
Pagina 13
... answer is , " Lord ! you are so English ! " If I do clap sometimes when they don't , I can fairly say with Œdipus , " My hands are guilty , but my heart is free ! " Adieu ! * James Douglas ninth Earl of Morton . - D . † Heydon . A ...
... answer is , " Lord ! you are so English ! " If I do clap sometimes when they don't , I can fairly say with Œdipus , " My hands are guilty , but my heart is free ! " Adieu ! * James Douglas ninth Earl of Morton . - D . † Heydon . A ...
Pagina 14
... answer the 13th of January . Lord Lincoln is who is dismissed . Cofferer at last , in the room of Waller , Sir Charles Williams has kissed hands , * This circumstance is thus alluded to in a letter of Sir Horace Mann's , dated Dec. 20th ...
... answer the 13th of January . Lord Lincoln is who is dismissed . Cofferer at last , in the room of Waller , Sir Charles Williams has kissed hands , * This circumstance is thus alluded to in a letter of Sir Horace Mann's , dated Dec. 20th ...
Pagina 18
... answered your letter , and have no- thing more to put into mine . LETTER CLXXII . Arlington - Street , Feb. 23 , 1747 . WHY , you do nothing but get fevers ! I believe you try to dry your Wet - brown - paperness till you scorch it . Or ...
... answered your letter , and have no- thing more to put into mine . LETTER CLXXII . Arlington - Street , Feb. 23 , 1747 . WHY , you do nothing but get fevers ! I believe you try to dry your Wet - brown - paperness till you scorch it . Or ...
Pagina 22
... answer some questions he had to ask ; but did not . It is much expected that Lord Traquair , who is a great coward , will give ample information of the whole plot . When Sir Everard Falkener had been examined against Lovat , the Lord ...
... answer some questions he had to ask ; but did not . It is much expected that Lord Traquair , who is a great coward , will give ample information of the whole plot . When Sir Everard Falkener had been examined against Lovat , the Lord ...
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Pagina 122 - 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 423 - How should I? I who have always lived in the big busy world ; who lie a-bed all the morning, calling it morning as long as you please; who sup in company; who have played at...
Pagina 130 - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.
Pagina 116 - MY text is not literally true ; but as far as earthquakes go towards lowering the price of wonderful commodities, to be sure we are overstocked. We have had a second, much more violent than the first; and you must not be surprised if by next post you hear of a burning mountain sprung up in Smithfield. In the night between Wednesday and Thursday last, (exactly a month since the first shock,) the earth had a shivering fit between one and two; but so slight that, if no more had followed, I don't believe...
Pagina 77 - ... 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, gamingtables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than anything I ever saw.
Pagina 186 - However, two nights afterwards, being left alone with her while her mother and sister were at Bedford House, he found himself so impatient that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without licence or ring; the duke swore he would send for the archbishop.
Pagina 213 - Titian, &c., but when I gave them this air of barbarous bas-reliefs, they succeeded to a miracle : it is impossible at first sight not to conclude that they contain the history of Attila or Tottila, done about the very sera.
Pagina 436 - He wore them to Tyburn. This marked the strong impression on his mind. His mother wrote to his wife in a weak, angry style, telling her to intercede for him as her duty, and to swear to his madness. But this was not so easy ; in all her cause before the Lords she had persisted that he was not mad. Sir William Meredith, and even Lady Huntingdon, had prophesied that his courage would fail him at last, and had so much foundation, that it is certain Lord Ferrers had often been beat : but the Methodists...
Pagina 78 - The King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit, and much pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cup as they were drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent, that he looked like Cacofogo, the drunken Captain in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife.
Pagina 117 - Scotch plaid waistcoat,) sat under the park-wall, in his chair, and hallooed the voters on to Brentford. The Jacobites are so transported, that they are opening subscriptions for all boroughs that shall be vacant — this is wise ! They will spend their money to carry a few more seats in a Parliament, where they will never have the majority, and so have none to carry the general elections.