Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and others]. With notes now first added, المجلد 3 |
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... thought I was grown idle . What pains one takes to be forgotten ! Good night . Yours ever . To GEORGE MONTAGU , Esq . Strawberry - hill , June 29 , 1770 . SINCE the sharp mountain will not come to the little hill , the little hill must ...
... thought I was grown idle . What pains one takes to be forgotten ! Good night . Yours ever . To GEORGE MONTAGU , Esq . Strawberry - hill , June 29 , 1770 . SINCE the sharp mountain will not come to the little hill , the little hill must ...
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... thought I should hear no more of it . However , the proposal was turned into a command , and every body told me I could not refuse . Well , I could not come so near , and not call upon you ; besides , it is extremely convenient to my ...
... thought I should hear no more of it . However , the proposal was turned into a command , and every body told me I could not refuse . Well , I could not come so near , and not call upon you ; besides , it is extremely convenient to my ...
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... thought , would be inclined to patronize the work ; but I own I do not know how to get it laid before him . His own artists would probably discourage any scheme that might entrench on their own advan- tages . Mr. Thomas Sandby , the ...
... thought , would be inclined to patronize the work ; but I own I do not know how to get it laid before him . His own artists would probably discourage any scheme that might entrench on their own advan- tages . Mr. Thomas Sandby , the ...
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... thought the present age had borne the palm of absurdity from all its pre- decessors . But I find our contemporaries are quiet good folks , that only game till they hang themselves , and do not kill every body they meet in the street ...
... thought the present age had borne the palm of absurdity from all its pre- decessors . But I find our contemporaries are quiet good folks , that only game till they hang themselves , and do not kill every body they meet in the street ...
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... thought it the safest match for her . I wish I knew all she and her sisters knew of their brothers , and their uncle Richard III . Much good may it do my lord of Canterbury with his parboiled stag ! Sure there must be more curiosities ...
... thought it the safest match for her . I wish I knew all she and her sisters knew of their brothers , and their uncle Richard III . Much good may it do my lord of Canterbury with his parboiled stag ! Sure there must be more curiosities ...
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الصفحة 121 - Gray never wrote any thing easily but things of humour. Humour was his natural and original turn — and though, from his childhood, he was grave and reserved, his genius led him to see things ludicrously and satirically ; and though his health and dissatisfaction gave him low spirits, his melancholy turn was much more affected than his pleasantry in writing. You knew him enough to know I am in the right — but the world in general always wants to be told how to think, as well as what to think.
الصفحة 390 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
الصفحة 112 - The Antiquities of Furness ; or an Account of the Royal Abbey of St. Mary, in the vale of Nightshade, near Dalton, in Furness.
الصفحة 341 - Nort'i moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill "for the better regulating the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
الصفحة 280 - The more marvellous Fox's parts are, the more one is provoked at his follies, which comfort so many rascals and blockheads, and make all that is admirable and amiable in him only matter of regret to those who like him as I do.
الصفحة 472 - Burney] knew the world and penetrated characters before she had stepped over the threshold ; and, now she has seen so much of it, she has little or no insight at all...
الصفحة 115 - They hold a Parnassus fair every Thursday, give out rhymes and themes, and all the flux of quality at Bath contend for the prizes. A Roman vase dressed with pink ribbons and myrtles receives the poetry, which is drawn out every festival; six judges of these Olympic games retire and select the brightest compositions, which the respective successful acknowledge, kneel to Mrs. Calliope Miller, kiss her fair hand, and are crowned by it with myrtle, with — I don't know what.
الصفحة 63 - Masters ;* but he is so dull that he would only be troublesome — and besides, you know I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
الصفحة 473 - I see nobody that really knows anything, and what I learn comes from newspapers, that collect intelligence from coffee-houses, consequently what I neither believe nor report. At home I see only a few charitable elders, except about fourscore nephews and nieces of various ages...
الصفحة 158 - The Court and Character of King James; written and taken by Sir AW, being an eye and ear witness.