The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, المجلد 4R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... pounds a year , my house , table , and utmost countenance . In short , I turned his head , and was forced to turn him out of doors . You shall see the documents , as it is the fashion to call proof papers . Poets and painters imagine ...
... pounds a year , my house , table , and utmost countenance . In short , I turned his head , and was forced to turn him out of doors . You shall see the documents , as it is the fashion to call proof papers . Poets and painters imagine ...
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... was Hawke's famous victory , for which he received the thanks of Parliament , and a pension of two thousand pounds a - year . In 1765 , he was created a peer.-D. Thus we wind up this wonderful year ! Who that 4 1759 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... was Hawke's famous victory , for which he received the thanks of Parliament , and a pension of two thousand pounds a - year . In 1765 , he was created a peer.-D. Thus we wind up this wonderful year ! Who that 4 1759 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... pound of bread sells at Dresden for eleven - pence . We are going to send many more troops thither ; and it is so much the fashion to raise regiments , that I wish there were such a neutral kind of beings in England as abbés , that one ...
... pound of bread sells at Dresden for eleven - pence . We are going to send many more troops thither ; and it is so much the fashion to raise regiments , that I wish there were such a neutral kind of beings in England as abbés , that one ...
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... pounds a week . One circumstance diverted me , but amidst all this decorum , I kept it to myself . The wands of the governors are white , but twisted at top with black and white , which put me in mind of Jacob's rods , that he placed ...
... pounds a week . One circumstance diverted me , but amidst all this decorum , I kept it to myself . The wands of the governors are white , but twisted at top with black and white , which put me in mind of Jacob's rods , that he placed ...
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... pounds a - piece ; the surgeon about nine thou- sand . I think there is some glimmering of peace ! God send the world some repose from its woes ! The King of Prussia has writ to Belleisle to desire the King of France will make peace for ...
... pounds a - piece ; the surgeon about nine thou- sand . I think there is some glimmering of peace ! God send the world some repose from its woes ! The King of Prussia has writ to Belleisle to desire the King of France will make peace for ...
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Adieu admire afterwards amusing Arlington Street arrived believe Bishop brother called Charles Townshend charming coronation Countess court daughter dead dear lord Duchess Duchess of Grafton Duke of Newcastle Earl expect French gallery George Grenville GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give glad gout Grafton Greatworth Grenville H. S. CONWAY Hardwicke hear heard Hertford honour hope Ireland King King's kissed hands Lady Ailesbury Lady Mary Lady Mary Coke late letter live Lord Bute Lord Ferrers Lord George Lord George Sackville Lord Temple lordship Madam married minister Miss Monday morning never North Briton obliged Opera painted peace picture Pitt Pray Prince Princess Queen received sent sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure t'other talk tell thing thought thousand pounds to-day to-morrow told town Waldegrave Walpole week wife Wilkes wish write yesterday
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الصفحة 443 - 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.
الصفحة 5 - Hay says, it will soon be as shameful to beat a Frenchman as to beat a woman. Indeed, one is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.
الصفحة 203 - The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable. When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one...
الصفحة 132 - 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.
الصفحة 85 - 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.
الصفحة 357 - Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. We all felt inspired by the example he gave us, down even to myself, the, weakest in that phalanx. I declare for one, I knew well enough (it could not be concealed from...
الصفحة 37 - At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy ;" the great humour of which consists in the whole narration always going backwards.
الصفحة 108 - Do you know, I had the curiosity to go to the burying t'other night; I had never seen a royal funeral; nay, I walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it.
الصفحة 37 - Sermons,' with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
الصفحة 123 - 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.