The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own manuscripts selected and edited by the Rev. John MitfordJ. Mawman, 1816 |
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... live at the Custom- house ; however , by what style , title , or denomination soever you choose to be dignified or distinguished hereafter , these three words will stick by you like a burr , and you can no more get quit of these and ...
... live at the Custom- house ; however , by what style , title , or denomination soever you choose to be dignified or distinguished hereafter , these three words will stick by you like a burr , and you can no more get quit of these and ...
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... live a good deal together , yet they never come to any great familiarity with one another . As my Lord Conway had spent a good part of his time among them , his brother , and we with him , were soon intro- duced into all their ...
... live a good deal together , yet they never come to any great familiarity with one another . As my Lord Conway had spent a good part of his time among them , his brother , and we with him , were soon intro- duced into all their ...
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... lives a few leagues off , and who uses to receive all strangers with great civility ; his Abbey is one of the richest in the kingdom ; he keeps open house always , and lives with great magnificence . We have seen enough of this town ...
... lives a few leagues off , and who uses to receive all strangers with great civility ; his Abbey is one of the richest in the kingdom ; he keeps open house always , and lives with great magnificence . We have seen enough of this town ...
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... live in that town . I never go into the gay world or high world , and consequently receive nothing from thence to brighten my imagination . The busy world I leave to the busy ; and am resolved never to talk politics till I can act at ...
... live in that town . I never go into the gay world or high world , and consequently receive nothing from thence to brighten my imagination . The busy world I leave to the busy ; and am resolved never to talk politics till I can act at ...
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... lives in a private manner , with very little appearance of a : court about him ; he has one of the noblest collections of paint- ings in the world , which entertained us extremely well the rest of that day and a part of the next ; and ...
... lives in a private manner , with very little appearance of a : court about him ; he has one of the noblest collections of paint- ings in the world , which entertained us extremely well the rest of that day and a part of the next ; and ...
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Página 129 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 262 - Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof; The thread is spun;) Half of thy heart we consecrate. (The web is wove; The work is done.) — Stay, oh stay!
Página 260 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 165 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 260 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro...
Página 497 - I will be candid (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to you, that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because I like it ; and because I like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.
Página 515 - Letters. Poor man ! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it : his correspondence is about nothing eke but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
Página 178 - ... knowing one's handsome cat is always the cat one likes best; or if one be alive and the other dead, it is usually the latter that is the handsomest. Besides, if the point were never so clear, I hope you do not think me so ill-bred or so imprudent as to forfeit all my interest in the survivor. Oh no! I would rather seem to mistake, and imagine to be sure it must be the tabby one that had met with this sad accident. Till this affair is a little better determined, you will excuse me if I do not...
Página 8 - It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.
Página 459 - that if there was any excellence in his own numbers, he had learned it wholly from that great poet ' ; and writing to Beattie afterwards he recurs to Dryden, whom Beattie, he thought, did not honour enough as a poet : 'Remember Dryden,' he writes, 'and be blind to all his faults.