The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volumen 2R. Bentley, 1857 |
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... Arlington Street , Feb. 7 , 1746 . TILL yesterday that I received your last of Jan. 27 , I was very uneasy at finding you still remained under the same anxiety about the Rebellion , when it had so long ceased to be formidable with us ...
... Arlington Street , Feb. 7 , 1746 . TILL yesterday that I received your last of Jan. 27 , I was very uneasy at finding you still remained under the same anxiety about the Rebellion , when it had so long ceased to be formidable with us ...
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... streets , calling odd man ! as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner . This little faction of Lord Granville ... Arlington Street , March 6 , 1746 . I KNOW I have missed two or three posts , but you have lost nothing : you ...
... streets , calling odd man ! as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner . This little faction of Lord Granville ... Arlington Street , March 6 , 1746 . I KNOW I have missed two or three posts , but you have lost nothing : you ...
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... Arlington Street , May 16 , 1746 . I HAVE had nothing new to tell you since the victory , relative to it , but that it has entirely put an end to the Rebellion . The num- ber slain is generally believed much greater than is given out ...
... Arlington Street , May 16 , 1746 . I HAVE had nothing new to tell you since the victory , relative to it , but that it has entirely put an end to the Rebellion . The num- ber slain is generally believed much greater than is given out ...
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... Arlington Street , May 22 , 1746 . AFTER all your goodness to me , don't be angry that I am glad I am got into brave old London again : though my cats don't purr like Goldwin , yet one of them has as good a heart as old Reynolds , and ...
... Arlington Street , May 22 , 1746 . AFTER all your goodness to me , don't be angry that I am glad I am got into brave old London again : though my cats don't purr like Goldwin , yet one of them has as good a heart as old Reynolds , and ...
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... Arlington Street , June 5 , 1746 . You may perhaps fancy that you are very happy in the country , and that because you commend every thing you see , you like every thing you may fancy that London is a desert , and that grass grows now ...
... Arlington Street , June 5 , 1746 . You may perhaps fancy that you are very happy in the country , and that because you commend every thing you see , you like every thing you may fancy that London is a desert , and that grass grows now ...
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Página 86 - 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.
Página 182 - 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 247 - 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 491 - 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 486 - 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 228 - ... (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 201 - Judgments; and the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations: Seeker, the Jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, began the mode. He heard the women were all going out of town to avoid the next shock; and so, for fear of losing his Easter offerings, he set himself to advise them to await God's good pleasure in fear and trembling.
Página 54 - If I had a thousand lives, I would lay them all down here in the same cause.
Página 128 - The doctor was in bed, and swore he would not get up to marry the King, but that he had a brother over the way who perhaps would, and who did. The mother borrowed a pair of sheets, and they consummated at her house; and the next day they went to their own palace.
Página 211 - These two damsels were trusted by their mother, for the first time of their lives, to the matronly care of Lady Caroline. As we sailed up the Mall with all our colours flying, Lord Petersham, with his hose and legs twisted to every point of crossness, strode by us on the outside, and repassed again on the return. At the end of the Mall she called to him ; he would not answer: she gave a familiar spring, and, between laugh and confusion, ran up to him, ' My Lord, my Lord ! why, you don't see us...