The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS . IN SIX VOLUMES . VOL . IV . 1759 1764 . LONDON : RICHARD BENTLEY , NEW BURLINGTON STREET ; Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty . 1840 . 1229 . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . [ The Letters now.
... PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS . IN SIX VOLUMES . VOL . IV . 1759 1764 . LONDON : RICHARD BENTLEY , NEW BURLINGTON STREET ; Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty . 1840 . 1229 . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . [ The Letters now.
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... published but this summer , whether it would be thought so fine in point of style as it has generally been reckoned . For his veracity , alas ! I am sorry to say , there is more than one passage in the new work which puts one a little ...
... published but this summer , whether it would be thought so fine in point of style as it has generally been reckoned . For his veracity , alas ! I am sorry to say , there is more than one passage in the new work which puts one a little ...
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... published four or five . The poor man , who is grown very old and devout , begs God to take from him the love of natural philosophy ; and having ob- served some heterodox proceedings among bantam cocks , he proposes 16 1760 ...
... published four or five . The poor man , who is grown very old and devout , begs God to take from him the love of natural philosophy ; and having ob- served some heterodox proceedings among bantam cocks , he proposes 16 1760 ...
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... . If I shall be able to publish this part , perhaps it may induce persons of curiosity and knowledge to assist me in the darker parts of the story , touching our architects , statuaries , and 28 1760 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... . If I shall be able to publish this part , perhaps it may induce persons of curiosity and knowledge to assist me in the darker parts of the story , touching our architects , statuaries , and 28 1760 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... published in all our papers , that the account of the siege of Carrickfergus , which I sent you in my last , was not half so ridiculous as the reality — because , as that deponent saith , I was furnished with no papers but my memory ...
... published in all our papers , that the account of the siege of Carrickfergus , which I sent you in my last , was not half so ridiculous as the reality — because , as that deponent saith , I was furnished with no papers but my memory ...
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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...