The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volumen 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... night , and won : the King asked him next morning , how much he had for his ' James , first Earl of Waldegrave , ambassador at Paris , K. G. He died in 1741.-D. own share ? 1 He replied , " Sir , 12 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... night , and won : the King asked him next morning , how much he had for his ' James , first Earl of Waldegrave , ambassador at Paris , K. G. He died in 1741.-D. own share ? 1 He replied , " Sir , 12 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... night , and won : the King asked him next morning , how much he had for his 1 James , first Earl of Waldegrave , ambassador at Paris , K. G. He died in 1741.-D. own share ? 1 He replied , " Sir , 12 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... night , and won : the King asked him next morning , how much he had for his 1 James , first Earl of Waldegrave , ambassador at Paris , K. G. He died in 1741.-D. own share ? 1 He replied , " Sir , 12 1745 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... morning been solicited for some credentials for a Mr. Oxenden.5 I could not help laughing : he is son of Sir George , my Lady W.'s famous lover ! Can he want recommendations to Flo- rence ? However , I must give him a letter ; but beg ...
... morning been solicited for some credentials for a Mr. Oxenden.5 I could not help laughing : he is son of Sir George , my Lady W.'s famous lover ! Can he want recommendations to Flo- rence ? However , I must give him a letter ; but beg ...
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... morning : British foot Ditto horse · Ditto foot Ditto horse Ditto foot Ditto horse · Hanoverian foot Ditto horse Ditto foot Ditto horse · Ditto horse and foot Dutch Ditto · 1237 killed . 90 ditto . . 1968 wounded . . 232 ditto . 457 ...
... morning : British foot Ditto horse · Ditto foot Ditto horse Ditto foot Ditto horse · Hanoverian foot Ditto horse Ditto foot Ditto horse · Ditto horse and foot Dutch Ditto · 1237 killed . 90 ditto . . 1968 wounded . . 232 ditto . 457 ...
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... morning followed him to Lord Winchilsea's , and sent up word that he wanted to speak with him . Lord Bath came down , and said , " Fellow , what do you want with me ! " - My money , " said the man , as loud as ever he could bawl ...
... morning followed him to Lord Winchilsea's , and sent up word that he wanted to speak with him . Lord Bath came down , and said , " Fellow , what do you want with me ! " - My money , " said the man , as loud as ever he could bawl ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 140 - If I had a thousand lives, I would lay them all down here in the same cause.