The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 5R. Bentley, 1857 |
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Volume 5 Horace Walpole Visualização completa - 1891 |
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a-year Adieu Arlington Street arrived asked Bath Bedford believe bootikins brother certainly Chancellor Charles Townshend charming Choiseul Conway Countess Court CUNNINGHAM daughter dear Sir death doubt Duchess Duke of Grafton Earl England faction favour France Friday friends George Grenville GEORGE MONTAGU give glad gout hear heard honour hope House of Commons hundred King Lady late laugh least letter live London Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord Rockingham Lord Temple Madame du Barri Madame du Deffand married Middlesex Ministers Monsieur morning never night obliged Opposition papers Paris Parliament Pitt Pray present Prince Queen received resign Riband Rousseau sent SIR HORACE MANN sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure talk tell thanks thought thousand pounds to-day to-morrow told town truth Walpole Walpole's week Wilkes wish write yesterday
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Página 212 - I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Página 105 - Chloe's nose till it is red and blue; and then they cry this is a bad summer — as if we ever had any other! The best sun we have, is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
Página 16 - They have- boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes ; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.
Página 152 - Arlington Street, March 28, 1769. " Sir, — I cannot but think myself singularly obliged, by a gentleman with whom I have not the pleasure of being acquainted, when I read your very curious and kind letter, which I have this minute received.
Página 153 - Give me leave to ask you where Rowley's poems are to be found. I should not be sorry to print them, or at least a specimen of them, if they have never been printed.
Página 105 - I have found the reason : it is because we will affect to have a summer, and we have no title to any such thing. Our poets learnt . their trade of the Romans, and so adopted the terms of their masters. They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore throats and agues with attempting to realize these visions.
Página 467 - Goldsmith has written a comedy — no, ' it is the lowest of all farces ; it is not ' the subject I condemn , though very ' vulgar , but the execution. The drift ' tends to no moral, no edification of any ' kind— the situations , however, are well " imagined , and make one laugh in spite " of the grossness of the dialogue, the "forced witticisms, and total improba' bility of the whole plan and conduct.
Página 422 - Nay, then,' replies the feeble fox, '(But hark! I hear a hen that clocks) Go, but be moderate in your food; A chicken too might do me good.
Página 84 - What has one to do when turned of fifty, but really to think of finishing ? However, I will be candid, (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to you, that till...
Página 134 - I hope he is not sensible., as I doubt he would be too averse to his situation. Poor man ! he is not like my late amiable friend, lady Hervey ; two days before she .died, she wrote to her son Bristol these words: " I feel my dissolution coming on, but I have no pain ; what can an old woman desire more...