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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... called " The History of the House of Yvery , " a work which cost him three thousand pounds , as the heralds informed Mr. Chute and me , when we went to their office on your business ; and which was so ridiculous , that he has since ...
... called " The History of the House of Yvery , " a work which cost him three thousand pounds , as the heralds informed Mr. Chute and me , when we went to their office on your business ; and which was so ridiculous , that he has since ...
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... called himself Lord Strange ; though the title , which was a barony in fee , had in fact descended to the Duke of Atholl , as heir general of James , seventh Earl of Derby . - D . b The Hon . Henry Bathurst , second heir of Allen ...
... called himself Lord Strange ; though the title , which was a barony in fee , had in fact descended to the Duke of Atholl , as heir general of James , seventh Earl of Derby . - D . b The Hon . Henry Bathurst , second heir of Allen ...
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... called " a jubilee - masquerade in the Venetian manner " at Ranelagh : it had nothing Venetian in it , but was by far the best understood and the prettiest spectacle I ever saw : nothing in a fairy tale ever surpassed it . One of the ...
... called " a jubilee - masquerade in the Venetian manner " at Ranelagh : it had nothing Venetian in it , but was by far the best understood and the prettiest spectacle I ever saw : nothing in a fairy tale ever surpassed it . One of the ...
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... called Peace in Europe , but it was a wretched performance . On Monday there was a subscription - masquer- ade , much fuller than that of last year , but not so agreeable or so variousin dresses . The King was well disguised in an old ...
... called Peace in Europe , but it was a wretched performance . On Monday there was a subscription - masquer- ade , much fuller than that of last year , but not so agreeable or so variousin dresses . The King was well disguised in an old ...
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... called for ink and paper , wrote four long sides of arguments , and sent word that when his company broke up , he would come and give them more , which he did at one o'clock in the morning . I don't think you will laugh much less at ...
... called for ink and paper , wrote four long sides of arguments , and sent word that when his company broke up , he would come and give them more , which he did at one o'clock in the morning . I don't think you will laugh much less at ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,...
Página 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,