Letters of Horace Walpole, المجلد 2G. P. Putnam, 1890 |
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Adieu admire amuse ARLINGTON STREET arrived believe brother called Chancellor Charles Townshend charming Châtelet Choiseul Clive Court daughter dear Sir death doubt Duc de Choiseul Duchess Duchess of Northumberland Duke England English everything expected fashion France French Garrick George gout grace hear Hertford honour hope HORACE WALPOLE House of Commons humour King King's Lady laugh least letter live Lord Chatham Lord Clive Louis Louis XVI Madame du Barri Madame du Deffand Madame Geoffrin Majesty married Minister Ministry mistress Monsieur never night one's Paris Parliament peace Pitt pleased politics poor Pope present Prince Princess Queen received reign Rousseau Royal seen sent short SIR HORACE MANN STRAWBERRY HILL supper suppose sure talk taste tell thither thought thousand tion to-morrow told town Versailles Walpole week Wilkes wish write
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الصفحة 317 - should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult
الصفحة 317 - and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult " (
الصفحة 66 - explanation and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite nor vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious
الصفحة 65 - acquainted with how to bring together within a short time all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous
الصفحة 173 - who carried me to dine with them at Bath-Easton, now Pindus. They caught a little of what was then called taste, built and planted, and begot children, till the whole caravan were forced to go abroad to retrieve. Alas! Mrs. Miller is returned a beauty, a genius, a Sappho, a tenth Muse, as romantic as Mademoiselle
الصفحة 80 - Then turn we to her latest tribune's name, From her ten thousand tyrants turn to thee, Redeemer of dark centuries of shame, The friend of Petrarch, hope of Italy, Rienzi; last of Romans
الصفحة 89 - our houses clamber up hills to look at prospects. How our ancestors would laugh at us, who knew there was no being comfortable, unless you had a high hill before your nose, and a thick warm wood at your back! Taste is too freezing a commodity for us, and, depend upon it, will go out of fashion again.
الصفحة 27 - was present. For literature, it is very amusing when one has nothing else to do. I think it rather pedantic in society ; tiresome when displayed professedly ; and, besides, in this country one is sure it is only the fashion of the day. Their taste in it is worst of
الصفحة 66 - between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious nor more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of
الصفحة 30 - let into the King's bedchamber just as he has put on his shirt ; he dresses and talks goodhumouredly to a few, glares at strangers, goes to mass, to dinner, and a-hunting. The good old Queen, who is like Lady Primrose in the face, and Queen Caroline in the immensity of her