The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... taken ; we burned the Hero of seventy - four , eight hundred and fifteen men . The Thesée and Superbe of seventy - four and seventy , and of eight hundred and fifteen and eight hundred men , were sunk in the action , and the crews lost ...
... taken ; we burned the Hero of seventy - four , eight hundred and fifteen men . The Thesée and Superbe of seventy - four and seventy , and of eight hundred and fifteen and eight hundred men , were sunk in the action , and the crews lost ...
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... taken , as it were , in a partridge - net ! and , what is worse , I have not heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness.1 As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun — one cannot make a ...
... taken , as it were , in a partridge - net ! and , what is worse , I have not heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness.1 As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun — one cannot make a ...
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... taken up this opinion ; witness that gross line in his dull epistle to Aston , written in 1740 , " The lustful Hen- rietta's Romish shade ; " but we believe that no good authority for this imputation can be produced : there is strong ...
... taken up this opinion ; witness that gross line in his dull epistle to Aston , written in 1740 , " The lustful Hen- rietta's Romish shade ; " but we believe that no good authority for this imputation can be produced : there is strong ...
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... taken bark enough to have made a rind for Daphne : nay , have even stayed at home two days ; but I think my eternity begins to bud again . I am quite of Dr. Garth's mind , who , when anybody commended a hard frost to him , used to reply ...
... taken bark enough to have made a rind for Daphne : nay , have even stayed at home two days ; but I think my eternity begins to bud again . I am quite of Dr. Garth's mind , who , when anybody commended a hard frost to him , used to reply ...
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... , boarded the latter's vessel . Thurot was killed , and his pigmy navy all taken and carried into the Isle of Man . It is an entertaining VOL . IV . D episode ; but think what would have happened , if 1760 . 33 THE HON . HORACE WALPOLE .
... , boarded the latter's vessel . Thurot was killed , and his pigmy navy all taken and carried into the Isle of Man . It is an entertaining VOL . IV . D episode ; but think what would have happened , if 1760 . 33 THE HON . HORACE WALPOLE .
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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...