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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الصفحة xix
... week ; has everything new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams , aye , admirably , and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years . She corresponds with Voltaire , dictates charming letters to him , contradicts ...
... week ; has everything new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams , aye , admirably , and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years . She corresponds with Voltaire , dictates charming letters to him , contradicts ...
الصفحة 6
... weeks . But another time , don't imagine , because I can bespeak an enamelled bauble , that I am fit to be entrusted with the direction of the machine at Marli . It is not to save myself trouble , for I think nothing so for you , but I ...
... weeks . But another time , don't imagine , because I can bespeak an enamelled bauble , that I am fit to be entrusted with the direction of the machine at Marli . It is not to save myself trouble , for I think nothing so for you , but I ...
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... weeks till to - day , and was delighted to find it so pleasant , and to meet a comfortable south - east wind , the fairest of all winds , in spite of the scandal that lies on the east ; though it is the west that is the parent of all ...
... weeks till to - day , and was delighted to find it so pleasant , and to meet a comfortable south - east wind , the fairest of all winds , in spite of the scandal that lies on the east ; though it is the west that is the parent of all ...
الصفحة 16
... week till be- tween two and three with the Duchess of Grafton , at loo , who , by the way , has got a pam - child this morning ; and on Satur- day night I supped with Prince Edward at my Lady Roch- ford's , and we stayed till half an ...
... week till be- tween two and three with the Duchess of Grafton , at loo , who , by the way , has got a pam - child this morning ; and on Satur- day night I supped with Prince Edward at my Lady Roch- ford's , and we stayed till half an ...
الصفحة 19
... weeks every night , and have 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 ...
... weeks every night , and have 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 ...
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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.