The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volumen 2R. Bentley, 1857 |
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... thought lost to our cause . To - day we are to vote subsidies to the Electors of Cologne and Mentz . I don't know whether they will be opposed by the Electoral Prince [ the Prince of Wales ] ; but he has lately erected a new opposition ...
... thought lost to our cause . To - day we are to vote subsidies to the Electors of Cologne and Mentz . I don't know whether they will be opposed by the Electoral Prince [ the Prince of Wales ] ; but he has lately erected a new opposition ...
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... thought safe to send him through the heart of Scotland ; so he was shipped at Inverness , within an hour after the Duke entered the town , kept beating at sea five days , and then put on shore at North Berwick , from whence he came post ...
... thought safe to send him through the heart of Scotland ; so he was shipped at Inverness , within an hour after the Duke entered the town , kept beating at sea five days , and then put on shore at North Berwick , from whence he came post ...
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... thought enough for him , though heir of the Crown , and abounding in issue but he has wisely reflected forwards , and likes the prece- dent , as it will be easy to find victories in his sons to reward , when once they have a precedent ...
... thought enough for him , though heir of the Crown , and abounding in issue but he has wisely reflected forwards , and likes the prece- dent , as it will be easy to find victories in his sons to reward , when once they have a precedent ...
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... thought to be upon the coast of Spain : but what do you mean by him and his pedestal filling three cases ? is he like the Irishman's bird , in two places at once ? Adieu ! my dear child ; don't believe my love for you in the least ...
... thought to be upon the coast of Spain : but what do you mean by him and his pedestal filling three cases ? is he like the Irishman's bird , in two places at once ? Adieu ! my dear child ; don't believe my love for you in the least ...
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... thought poetry excusable but in the manner I sent you mine , just to divert anybody one loves for half an hour - and I know I must love anybody , to put myself so much in their power for their diversion . But to make anything one writes ...
... thought poetry excusable but in the manner I sent you mine , just to divert anybody one loves for half an hour - and I know I must love anybody , to put myself so much in their power for their diversion . But to make anything one writes ...
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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...