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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... talk of sending him to Notting- ham , where Tallard was . I am sure , if he is prisoner at large any where , we could not have a worse inmate ! so ambitious and intriguing a man , who was author of this whole war , will be no bad ...
... talk of sending him to Notting- ham , where Tallard was . I am sure , if he is prisoner at large any where , we could not have a worse inmate ! so ambitious and intriguing a man , who was author of this whole war , will be no bad ...
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... talking to him of it the next night at Lord Granville's : " Why , yes , " said he , " I think it showed familiarity at least : tell it your father ; I don't think he will dislike it . " My Lady Granville gives a ball this week , but in ...
... talking to him of it the next night at Lord Granville's : " Why , yes , " said he , " I think it showed familiarity at least : tell it your father ; I don't think he will dislike it . " My Lady Granville gives a ball this week , but in ...
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... talking to him of it the next night at Lord Granville's : " Why , yes , " said he , " I think it showed familiarity at least : tell it your father ; I don't think he will dislike it . " My Lady Granville gives a ball this week , but in ...
... talking to him of it the next night at Lord Granville's : " Why , yes , " said he , " I think it showed familiarity at least : tell it your father ; I don't think he will dislike it . " My Lady Granville gives a ball this week , but in ...
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... talk to you . I have not even a belief that the Spaniards will spare Tuscany . My dear child , what will become of you ? whither will you retire till a peace restores you to your ministry ? for upon that dis- tant view alone I repose ...
... talk to you . I have not even a belief that the Spaniards will spare Tuscany . My dear child , what will become of you ? whither will you retire till a peace restores you to your ministry ? for upon that dis- tant view alone I repose ...
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... talk of retiring . At present , she is employed in buying up all the nosegays in Covent- Garden and laurel - leaves at the pastry - cooks , to weave chap- lets for the return of her hero . Who that is I don't pretend to know or guess ...
... talk of retiring . At present , she is employed in buying up all the nosegays in Covent- Garden and laurel - leaves at the pastry - cooks , to weave chap- lets for the return of her hero . Who that is I don't pretend to know or guess ...
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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.