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 17
... writing to an Italian as well as into Italy , one might string concetti for an hour , and describe how heroes are frozen on their horses till they become their own statues . But seriously , does not all this rigour of warfare throw back ...
... writing to an Italian as well as into Italy , one might string concetti for an hour , and describe how heroes are frozen on their horses till they become their own statues . But seriously , does not all this rigour of warfare throw back ...
الصفحة 22
... write a defence of Nero , and yet none of his descendants re- mained to pretend to the empire ? If Dr. Robertson could have said more , I am sorry it will be forced from him . He had better have said it voluntarily . You will forgive me ...
... write a defence of Nero , and yet none of his descendants re- mained to pretend to the empire ? If Dr. Robertson could have said more , I am sorry it will be forced from him . He had better have said it voluntarily . You will forgive me ...
الصفحة 23
... write what they please against me : I meaned to speak my mind , not to write con- troversy trash seldom read but by the two opponents who write it . Yet were I inclined to reply , like Dr. Robertson , I could say a little more . You ...
... write what they please against me : I meaned to speak my mind , not to write con- troversy trash seldom read but by the two opponents who write it . Yet were I inclined to reply , like Dr. Robertson , I could say a little more . You ...
الصفحة 28
... write , and I shall connect them historically . I by no means mean to touch on foreign artists , unless they came over hither ; but they are essential , for we had scarce any others tolerable . I propose to begin with the anecdotes of ...
... write , and I shall connect them historically . I by no means mean to touch on foreign artists , unless they came over hither ; but they are essential , for we had scarce any others tolerable . I propose to begin with the anecdotes of ...
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... writer ! He loads his thoughts with so many words , and those couched in so hard a style , and so void of all ... writing were come to perfection , Warburton and Hurd are going back again ; and since commentators , obscurity , paradoxes ...
... writer ! He loads his thoughts with so many words , and those couched in so hard a style , and so void of all ... writing were come to perfection , Warburton and Hurd are going back again ; and since commentators , obscurity , paradoxes ...
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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.