The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... Adieu ! SIR , TO THE RIGHT HON . WILLIAM PITT.o Arlington Street , Nov. 19 , 1759 . ON coming to town , I did myself the honour of waiting on you and Lady Hester Pitt ; and though I think myself extremely distinguished by your obliging ...
... Adieu ! SIR , TO THE RIGHT HON . WILLIAM PITT.o Arlington Street , Nov. 19 , 1759 . ON coming to town , I did myself the honour of waiting on you and Lady Hester Pitt ; and though I think myself extremely distinguished by your obliging ...
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... Adieu ! I would not profane this letter with a word of anything else for the world . TO SIR HORACE MANN . Arlington Street , Dec. 13 , 1759 . 2 THAT ever you should pitch upon me for a mechanic or geometric commission ! How my own ...
... Adieu ! I would not profane this letter with a word of anything else for the world . TO SIR HORACE MANN . Arlington Street , Dec. 13 , 1759 . 2 THAT ever you should pitch upon me for a mechanic or geometric commission ! How my own ...
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... Adieu ! TO GEORGE MONTAGU , ESQ . Strawberry Hill , Dec. 23 , 1759 . How do you do ? are you thawed again ? how have you borne the country in this bitter weather ? I have not been here these three weeks till to - day , and was delighted ...
... Adieu ! TO GEORGE MONTAGU , ESQ . Strawberry Hill , Dec. 23 , 1759 . How do you do ? are you thawed again ? how have you borne the country in this bitter weather ? I have not been here these three weeks till to - day , and was delighted ...
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... Adieu ! Sir . I have received so much pleasure and benefit from your correspondence , that I should be sorry to lose it . I will not deserve to lose it , but endeavour to be , as you will give me leave to be , your , & c . Mr. Walpole ...
... Adieu ! Sir . I have received so much pleasure and benefit from your correspondence , that I should be sorry to lose it . I will not deserve to lose it , but endeavour to be , as you will give me leave to be , your , & c . Mr. Walpole ...
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... Adieu ! ever . TO GEORGE MONTAGU , ESQ . Arlington Street , Jan. 28 , 1760 . I SHALL almost frighten you from coming to London , for whether you have the constitution of a horse or a man , you will be equally in danger . All the horses ...
... Adieu ! ever . TO GEORGE MONTAGU , ESQ . Arlington Street , Jan. 28 , 1760 . I SHALL almost frighten you from coming to London , for whether you have the constitution of a horse or a man , you will be equally in danger . All the horses ...
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Adieu admire afterwards amused Arlington Street arrived Bedford believe Bishop brother called Charles Charles Townshend charming coronation Countess court crowd daughter dead dear Duchess Duchess of Grafton Duke of Newcastle Duke of York Earl England expect French gallery GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give glad Greatworth H. S. CONWAY hear heard honour hope Huntingdon Ireland James's King of Prussia King's kissed hands Lady Ailesbury Lady Mary Lady Mary Coke letter live London look Lord Anson Lord Bute Lord Ferrers lordship Madam married Miss Monday morning never obliged Opera painted peace peeresses picture Pitt play Pray pretty Prince Princess Queen sent sorry STRAFFORD Strawberry Hill suppose sure t'other talk tell thank thing thought thousand pounds to-day to-morrow told town Townshend Waldegrave Walpole week wife wish write yesterday
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الصفحة 427 - 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 311 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
الصفحة 361 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
الصفحة 132 - Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the town-hall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them, amid bumpers, huzzas, songs, and tobacco, and finishing with country dancing at a ball and sixpenny whisk!
الصفحة 180 - A difference of opinion with regard to measures to be taken against Spain, of the highest importance to the honour of the crown, and to the most essential national interests, and this founded on what Spain had already done, not on what that court may further intend to do, was the cause of my resigning the seals.
الصفحة 311 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
الصفحة 27 - How should I ? I who have always lived in the big busy world ; who lie a-bed all the morning, calling it morning as long as you please ; who sup in company ; who have played at...
الصفحة 134 - 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 87 - 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 141 - Oh ! so far from it, there's Reynolds, who certainly has genius ; why, but t'other day he offered a hundred pounds for a picture, that I would not hang in my cellar ; and indeed, to say truth, I have generally found, that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it ; but what I particularly wished to say to you was about sir James Thornhill...