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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... taken ; we burned the Hero of seventy - four , eight hundred and fifteen men . The Thesée and Superbe of seventy - four and seventy , and of eight hundred and fifteen and eight hundred men , were sunk in the action , and the crews lost ...
... taken ; we burned the Hero of seventy - four , eight hundred and fifteen men . The Thesée and Superbe of seventy - four and seventy , and of eight hundred and fifteen and eight hundred men , were sunk in the action , and the crews lost ...
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... taken , as it were , in a partridge - net ! and , what is worse , I have not heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness.1 As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun Daun - one cannot ...
... taken , as it were , in a partridge - net ! and , what is worse , I have not heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness.1 As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun Daun - one cannot ...
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... taken up this opinion ; witness that gross line in his dull epistle to Aston , written in 1740 , " The lustful Hen- rietta's Romish shade ; " but we believe that no good authority for this imputation can be produced : there is strong ...
... taken up this opinion ; witness that gross line in his dull epistle to Aston , written in 1740 , " The lustful Hen- rietta's Romish shade ; " but we believe that no good authority for this imputation can be produced : there is strong ...
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... taken bark enough to have made a rind for Daphne : nay , have even stayed at home two days ; but I think my eternity begins to bud again . I am quite of Dr. Garth's mind , who , when anybody commended a hard frost to him , used to reply ...
... taken bark enough to have made a rind for Daphne : nay , have even stayed at home two days ; but I think my eternity begins to bud again . I am quite of Dr. Garth's mind , who , when anybody commended a hard frost to him , used to reply ...
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... taken and carried into the Isle of Man . It is an entertaining VOL . IV . Ꭰ episode ; but think what would have happened , if 1760 . 33 THE HON . HORACE WALPOLE . To the same, March 4 -M Thurot's expedition Duke of Bed- ford's Irish ...
... taken and carried into the Isle of Man . It is an entertaining VOL . IV . Ꭰ episode ; but think what would have happened , if 1760 . 33 THE HON . HORACE WALPOLE . To the same, March 4 -M Thurot's expedition Duke of Bed- ford's Irish ...
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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.