The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1861 |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford, Volume 2 Horace Walpole Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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Adieu Admiral afterwards Arlington Street asked Balmerino beauty believe Bentley Bishop brother called Chancellor charming Chute Conway Countess court CUNNINGHAM daughter dead DEAR GEORGE dear Sir death died Duchess Duke of Bedford Duke of Cumberland Duke of Newcastle Earl eldest England extremely father Florence France French GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give going hear heard honour hundred Jacobite King King's Lady Caroline Lady Mary letter live Lord Bath Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Granville Lord Hervey Lord Kilmarnock Lord Sandwich Lyttelton Madame Marquis married minister ministry Mirepoix Miss morning never night Orford Parliament Pelham Pitt Pretender pretty Prince Princess rebels received secretary sent Sir Charles SIR HORACE MANN sister Strawberry Hill t'other talk tell Thomas thousand pounds told town Townshend Viscount Walpole Walpole's whole wife William write young
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Pagina 180 - 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 226 - 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 201 - 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 245 - 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 84 - Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises: barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window: Richmond Hill and Ham Walks bound my prospect; but thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight.
Pagina 85 - ... Chenevixes had tricked it out for themselves : up two pair of stairs is what they call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lame telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.
Pagina 83 - The house is so small, that I can send it you in a letter to look at : the prospect is as delightful as possible, commanding the river, the town, and Richmond Park ; and being situated on a hill descends to the Thames through two or three little meadows, where I have some Turkish sheep and two cows, all studied in their colours for becoming the view.
Pagina 337 - ... gloomy arches, you come to the hall and staircase, which it is impossible to describe to you, as it is the most particular and chief beauty of the castle. Imagine the walls covered with (I call it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective to represent) Gothic fretwork : the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place,...
Pagina 211 - Orford from the next box, where he was enjoying himself with his petite partie, to help us to mince chickens. We minced seven chickens into a china dish, which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp with three pats of butter and a flagon of water, stirring, and rattling, and laughing, and we every minute expecting to have the dish fly about our ears. She had brought Betty, the...
Pagina 197 - I rang my bell; my servant came in, frightened out of his senses: in an instant we heard all the windows in the neighbourhood flung up. I got up and found people running into the streets, but saw no mischief done: there has been some; two old houses flung down, several chimneys, and much chinaware. The bells rung in several houses.