Literature in Letters; Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent PersonsD. Appleton, 1866 - 520 páginas |
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... Reasons for adopting Secular Tunes - Knox's Account of his Char- 52 acter , LETTER XXIV . - Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway - Visit to Stowe , in Company of the Princess Amelia , . 54 LETTER XXV . - Horace Walpole to George Montagu ...
... Reasons for adopting Secular Tunes - Knox's Account of his Char- 52 acter , LETTER XXIV . - Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway - Visit to Stowe , in Company of the Princess Amelia , . 54 LETTER XXV . - Horace Walpole to George Montagu ...
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... reason to believe I might have kept a chaise of my own ; however , I live in hope that a loose man may come , though it will be some time first , for all the best families in the parish are laid up with what they call the yoke - which ...
... reason to believe I might have kept a chaise of my own ; however , I live in hope that a loose man may come , though it will be some time first , for all the best families in the parish are laid up with what they call the yoke - which ...
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... reason why poor Lord Hervey spoke miserably . I beg your pardon , dear madam , for this long relation ; but it is im- possible to be short on so copious a subject ; and you must own this action to be very well worthy of record , and I ...
... reason why poor Lord Hervey spoke miserably . I beg your pardon , dear madam , for this long relation ; but it is im- possible to be short on so copious a subject ; and you must own this action to be very well worthy of record , and I ...
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... but he left it to Wesley to assign as a reason for doing so , that there were no just grounds for letting the devil have all the best tunes to him- self.-H. Horace Walpole to John Chute - Visit to John Wesley's 52 GOSSIP , SOCIETY , AND.
... but he left it to Wesley to assign as a reason for doing so , that there were no just grounds for letting the devil have all the best tunes to him- self.-H. Horace Walpole to John Chute - Visit to John Wesley's 52 GOSSIP , SOCIETY , AND.
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... reason , I entreat that the journey to Good- wood may not take place before the 12th of August , when I will attend you . But this expedition to Stowe has quite blown up my intended one to Wentworth Castle ; I have not resolution enough ...
... reason , I entreat that the journey to Good- wood may not take place before the 12th of August , when I will attend you . But this expedition to Stowe has quite blown up my intended one to Wentworth Castle ; I have not resolution enough ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adieu admired affectionate Alexander Pope Alloway Kirk Amusements attended beautiful believe Bishop Bishop of Rochester Burke called Charles Lamb Court dear delight dined dinner Duchess Duke ell-ell-deed England English eyes favor feel Franklin French George Crabbe give hand Hannah happy head hear heard heart honor hope Horace Walpole horse hour Ignatius Sancho John kind King Lady M. W. Montagu Lady Mayoress Lady Morgan letter live London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Madame mind Miss morning nature never night passed person pleased pleasure poor Pray present Prince Queen received Robert Burns Robert Southey Samuel Crisp Scotch seen sent servant Sir Horace soon spirits Sydney Smith tell thing thought tion told town walk Walpole to George Walpole to Sir Walter Walter Savage Landor William wish woman write yesterday
Passagens conhecidas
Página 398 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 398 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Página 354 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Página 399 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, Sam Johnson.
Página 298 - ... of mine enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me ; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain, of a disloyal heart towards your good grace ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter. Try me, good king...
Página 397 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by...
Página 224 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Página 297 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command.
Página 399 - ... should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...
Página 77 - Mr. Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kindhearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and handsome. He has a pair of very good eyes in his head, which not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and difficult purposes of a senator, he has a third also, which he wore suspended by a riband from his buttonhole.