The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]., Volumen 4 |
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... Crowds of visitors to see Strawberry . Com- forts of keeping a gallery To the same , Sept. 7. - Invitation . Character of Mr. Thomas Pitt . 297 298 • To the same , Oct. 3. - Mrs . Crosby's pictures . Death of Mr. Child . Visit to Sir ...
... Crowds of visitors to see Strawberry . Com- forts of keeping a gallery To the same , Sept. 7. - Invitation . Character of Mr. Thomas Pitt . 297 298 • To the same , Oct. 3. - Mrs . Crosby's pictures . Death of Mr. Child . Visit to Sir ...
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... crowd was , that an union was to be voted between the two nations , and they should have no more parliaments there . " Works , vol . iii . p . 233.-E. 2 This distinguished admiral survived till January 1761.-E. ' Daughter of Lord ...
... crowd was , that an union was to be voted between the two nations , and they should have no more parliaments there . " Works , vol . iii . p . 233.-E. 2 This distinguished admiral survived till January 1761.-E. ' Daughter of Lord ...
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... crowds . The foreigners were struck with the awfulness of the proceeding — it is new to their ideas , to see such deliberate justice , and such dignity of nobility , mixed with no respect for birth in the catastrophe , and still more ...
... crowds . The foreigners were struck with the awfulness of the proceeding — it is new to their ideas , to see such deliberate justice , and such dignity of nobility , mixed with no respect for birth in the catastrophe , and still more ...
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... crowd , but got out of his coach as soon as he could , and was but seven minutes on the scaffold , which was hung with black , and prepared by the undertaker of his family at their expense . There was a new contrivance for sinking the ...
... crowd , but got out of his coach as soon as he could , and was but seven minutes on the scaffold , which was hung with black , and prepared by the undertaker of his family at their expense . There was a new contrivance for sinking the ...
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... crowds , thousands . First went a string of constables ; then one of the sheriffs , in his chariot and six , the horses dressed with ribbons ; next Lord Ferrers , in his own landau and six , his coachman crying all the way ; guards at ...
... crowds , thousands . First went a string of constables ; then one of the sheriffs , in his chariot and six , the horses dressed with ribbons ; next Lord Ferrers , in his own landau and six , his coachman crying all the way ; guards at ...
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Página 427 - A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Página 311 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Página 361 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Página 132 - Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the town-hall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them, amid bumpers, huzzas, songs, and tobacco, and finishing with country dancing at a ball and sixpenny whisk!
Página 180 - A difference of opinion with regard to measures to be taken against Spain, of the highest importance to the honour of the crown, and to the most essential national interests, and this founded on what Spain had already done, not on what that court may further intend to do, was the cause of my resigning the seals.
Página 311 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Página 27 - How should I ? I who have always lived in the big busy world ; who lie a-bed all the morning, calling it morning as long as you please ; who sup in company ; who have played at...
Página 134 - Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems? Johnson replied, 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children* Johnson, at this time, did not know that Dr.
Página 87 - By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Página 141 - Oh ! so far from it, there's Reynolds, who certainly has genius ; why, but t'other day he offered a hundred pounds for a picture, that I would not hang in my cellar ; and indeed, to say truth, I have generally found, that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it ; but what I particularly wished to say to you was about sir James Thornhill...