The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volumen 2R. Bentley, 1857 |
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... Duchess of Queensberry at court - Instance of English bizarrerie . 253. To Montagu , July 2. - Ill success of the army in the Netherlands - Battle of Laffeldt - Gallant conduct of Mr. Conway - Naval captures 254. To Mann , July 3 ...
... Duchess of Queensberry at court - Instance of English bizarrerie . 253. To Montagu , July 2. - Ill success of the army in the Netherlands - Battle of Laffeldt - Gallant conduct of Mr. Conway - Naval captures 254. To Mann , July 3 ...
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... Duchess of Ireland's Hennins , or piked horns . 130 278. To Conway , Oct. 6. - Meeting of Parliament - Preparations for proclaiming the peace - Lady Cadogan 131 279. To Montagu , Oct. 20 133 280. To Mann , Oct. 24. - Adventure of Milord ...
... Duchess of Ireland's Hennins , or piked horns . 130 278. To Conway , Oct. 6. - Meeting of Parliament - Preparations for proclaiming the peace - Lady Cadogan 131 279. To Montagu , Oct. 20 133 280. To Mann , Oct. 24. - Adventure of Milord ...
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... Duchess of Queensberry - Mary Queen of Scots -Dignity of human nature - Anecdote of Fielding - West's " Pindar " . Story of Charles Townshend • . 289. To Mann , June 4. - Anecdotes of Pope , Bolingbroke , and Atterbury 290. To the same ...
... Duchess of Queensberry - Mary Queen of Scots -Dignity of human nature - Anecdote of Fielding - West's " Pindar " . Story of Charles Townshend • . 289. To Mann , June 4. - Anecdotes of Pope , Bolingbroke , and Atterbury 290. To the same ...
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... Duchess of Hamilton at court - Miss Jefferies and Miss Blandy- Frequency of executions 278 339. To Conway , May 5.-Mr. Conway's infant daughter 280 • 282 340. To Montagu , May 12. - Irish politics - Mother Midnight's Oratory - Captain ...
... Duchess of Hamilton at court - Miss Jefferies and Miss Blandy- Frequency of executions 278 339. To Conway , May 5.-Mr. Conway's infant daughter 280 • 282 340. To Montagu , May 12. - Irish politics - Mother Midnight's Oratory - Captain ...
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... Duchess - Anecdotes - Parisian indecorums - Madame Pompadour's husband - Trait of Louis the Fifteenth -Epigram on the quarrel of the Pretender and his second son - Astley's pictures • 296 305 • 307 311 350. To Conway , Nov. 8 . 351. To ...
... Duchess - Anecdotes - Parisian indecorums - Madame Pompadour's husband - Trait of Louis the Fifteenth -Epigram on the quarrel of the Pretender and his second son - Astley's pictures • 296 305 • 307 311 350. To Conway , Nov. 8 . 351. To ...
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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...