The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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الصفحة xix
... died in 1780 , at the age of eighty - four . Of the Duchess de Choiseul , he says , in the same letter , - " She is not very pretty , but has fine eyes , and is a little model in wax - work , which , not being allowed to speak for some ...
... died in 1780 , at the age of eighty - four . Of the Duchess de Choiseul , he says , in the same letter , - " She is not very pretty , but has fine eyes , and is a little model in wax - work , which , not being allowed to speak for some ...
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... died three years ago and could revive , would believe it ! Think , that from Petersburgh to the Cape of Good Hope , from China to California , De Paris à Perou , there are not five thousand Frenchmen in the world that have behaved well ...
... died three years ago and could revive , would believe it ! Think , that from Petersburgh to the Cape of Good Hope , from China to California , De Paris à Perou , there are not five thousand Frenchmen in the world that have behaved well ...
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... died this morning of the same fever and sore throat of which she lost four chil- dren four years ago . It looks as if it was a plague fixed in the walls of their house : it broke out again among their servants , and carried off two , a ...
... died this morning of the same fever and sore throat of which she lost four chil- dren four years ago . It looks as if it was a plague fixed in the walls of their house : it broke out again among their servants , and carried off two , a ...
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... died in three days . Lord Besborough grew outrageously impatient at not seeing her , and would have forced into her room , when she had been dead about four days . They were obliged to tell him the truth : never was an answer that ...
... died in three days . Lord Besborough grew outrageously impatient at not seeing her , and would have forced into her room , when she had been dead about four days . They were obliged to tell him the truth : never was an answer that ...
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... dying , this fellow sent for a lawyer to make her will , but the man , finding who was to be her heir , instead of her chil- dren , refused to draw it . The Court of Chancery did furnish one other , not quite so scrupulous , and her ...
... dying , this fellow sent for a lawyer to make her will , but the man , finding who was to be her heir , instead of her chil- dren , refused to draw it . The Court of Chancery did furnish one other , not quite so scrupulous , and her ...
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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...