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... yesterday ; and Lord Buckingham is going to be married to our Miss Pitt of Twickenham , daughter of that strange woman who had a mind to be my wife , and who sent Mr. Raftor to know why I did not marry her . I replied , " Be- cause I ...
... yesterday ; and Lord Buckingham is going to be married to our Miss Pitt of Twickenham , daughter of that strange woman who had a mind to be my wife , and who sent Mr. Raftor to know why I did not marry her . I replied , " Be- cause I ...
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... yesterday . It was well I had not flattered myself with being still in my bloom ; I am grown so old since they saw me , that neither of them knew me . When they were told , he just spoke to me ( I forgive him ; he is not out of my debt ...
... yesterday . It was well I had not flattered myself with being still in my bloom ; I am grown so old since they saw me , that neither of them knew me . When they were told , he just spoke to me ( I forgive him ; he is not out of my debt ...
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... yesterday . I saw you much dis- pleased at what I had said ; and I felt so innocent of the least intention of offending you , that I could not help being struck at my own ill - fortune , and with the sensation raised by find- ing you ...
... yesterday . I saw you much dis- pleased at what I had said ; and I felt so innocent of the least intention of offending you , that I could not help being struck at my own ill - fortune , and with the sensation raised by find- ing you ...
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... yesterday . For people to whose approbation I am indifferent , I don't care whether they commend or condemn me for my wit ; in the former case they will not make me admire myself for it , in the latter they can't make me think but what ...
... yesterday . For people to whose approbation I am indifferent , I don't care whether they commend or condemn me for my wit ; in the former case they will not make me admire myself for it , in the latter they can't make me think but what ...
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... yesterday . A party was made to go to the Magdalen - house . We met at Northumberland - house at five , and set out in four coaches . Prince Edward , Colonel Brude- nel his groom , Lady Northumberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lady Carlisle ...
... yesterday . A party was made to go to the Magdalen - house . We met at Northumberland - house at five , and set out in four coaches . Prince Edward , Colonel Brude- nel his groom , Lady Northumberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lady Carlisle ...
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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...