Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now First Collected, المجلد 2Rodwell and Martin, 1820 |
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... looks like a Brobdingnag nine - pin- alley on a hill near , you would think you saw the York - buildings water - works invited into the country . There are temples in corn - fields ; and in the little wood , a window - frame mounted on ...
... looks like a Brobdingnag nine - pin- alley on a hill near , you would think you saw the York - buildings water - works invited into the country . There are temples in corn - fields ; and in the little wood , a window - frame mounted on ...
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... look ready laid for building the world . One scrambles over a huge terrass , on which mountain ashes and various trees spring out of the very rocks ; and at the brow is the den , but not spacious enough for such an inmate . However , I ...
... look ready laid for building the world . One scrambles over a huge terrass , on which mountain ashes and various trees spring out of the very rocks ; and at the brow is the den , but not spacious enough for such an inmate . However , I ...
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... look at something else without their observing , and in an instant he whipped away what he had just set , and to their great surprise , when they expected to see were ye , ye fair , he presented to my lady Rochford the following lines ...
... look at something else without their observing , and in an instant he whipped away what he had just set , and to their great surprise , when they expected to see were ye , ye fair , he presented to my lady Rochford the following lines ...
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... look , and that my lady's chickens and ducklings are old enough to go to a day - school , and will not want her any longer . My lord Townshend and George3 are engaged in a paper - war against one another , about the militia . That bill ...
... look , and that my lady's chickens and ducklings are old enough to go to a day - school , and will not want her any longer . My lord Townshend and George3 are engaged in a paper - war against one another , about the militia . That bill ...
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... look like doubt of your behaviour , at least that you had bid me defend you at the expence of your friends , I said not a word , trusting that your innocence would break out and make its way . I have the satisfaction to find it has ...
... look like doubt of your behaviour , at least that you had bid me defend you at the expence of your friends , I said not a word , trusting that your innocence would break out and make its way . I have the satisfaction to find it has ...
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Adieu admiral amused Arlington-street asked beauty Bedford believe Bentley bishop brother called Charles charming Chute coronation countess court daughter dead DEAR LORD DEAR SIR dined duchess of Bedford duchess of Grafton duke of Newcastle duke of York EARL OF STRAFFORD expect fear French gallery GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give glad gout Greatworth H. S. CONWAY handsome hear heard Hertford hither honour hope Ireland Keppel king king's lady Ailesbury lady Mary Coke ladyship last night laugh letter live London look lord Bute madam married ment miss Monday morning never niece North Briton obliged painted Park-place peace picture Pitt poor Pray pretty princess queen sent sorry Strawberry Strawberry-hill suppose sure t'other day talk tell thank thing thought thousand pounds to-day to-morrow told town Townshend Twickenham week wish write yesterday
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الصفحة 207 - This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle ; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the...
الصفحة 227 - ... are exhausting the dregs of their pitiful lives in squabbles and pamphlets. The surprise the pictures gave me is again renewed ; accustomed for many years to see nothing but wretched daubs and varnished copies at auctions, I look at these as enchantment. My own description of them seems poor j but shall I tell you truly, the majesty of Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring.
الصفحة 221 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
الصفحة 330 - Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work rags, and the embroidery nastiness.
الصفحة 347 - Why, the single eloquence of Mr. Pitt, like an annihilated star, can shine many months after it has set. I tell you it has conquered Martinico.
الصفحة 230 - It is plain I never knew for how many trades I was formed, when at this time of day I can begin electioneering, and succeed in my new vocation. Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the townhall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them, amid bumpers...
الصفحة 81 - Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro
الصفحة 5 - One scrambles over a huge terrass, on which mountain ashes and various trees spring out of the very rocks ; and at the brow is the den, but not spacious enough for such an inmate. However, I am persuaded it furnished Pope with this line, so exactly it answers to the picture : " On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes.
الصفحة 332 - ... prentices and old women. We stayed however till half an hour after one. The Methodists have promised them contributions ; provisions are sent in like forage, and all the taverns and ale-houses in the neighbourhood make fortunes.
الصفحة 481 - ... and veiling sense, Achieves that conquest o'er the heart Sense seldom gains, and never art : This lady, 'tis our royal will Our laureate's vacant seat should fill ; A chaplet of immortal bays Shall crown her...