Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now First Collected, Volume 3Rodwell and Martin, 1820 |
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Page 134 - commun : cela les fachera, sans vous faire tort. Mes ^tats vous offrent une retraite paisible ; je vous veux du bien, et je vous en ferai, si vous le trouvez bon. Mais si vous vous obstiniez à rejetter mon secours, attendez-vous que je ne le dirai à personne. Si vous persistez
Page 237 - who lets nothing appear but his own wretched stuff, or that of creatures still duller, who suffer him to alter their pieces as he pleases. I have written an epilogue in character for the Clive, which she would speak admirably ; but I am not so sure that she would like to speak it. Mr. Conway, lady Aylesbury, lady
Page 426 - contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams of parts, and the former had sense, 'till he changed it for words, and sold it for a pension. Don't think me scornful. Recollect that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. Adieu!
Page 338 - going down fifty stone stairs* Except lady Anne, and by courtesy lady Mary, we were none of us yoUng enough for a pastoral. We Supped in the grotto, which is as proper to this climate as a seacoal fire would be in the dog-days at Tivoli. But the chief entertainment of the week, at
Page 134 - creuser l'esprit pour trouver de nouveaux malheurs, choisissez les tels que vous voudrez. Je suis roi, je puis vous en procurer au gré de vos souhaits: et ce qui sûrement ne
Page 93 - laughed since my lady Hertford went away. I assure you, you may come hither very safely, and be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have not time to laugh. There is God and the king to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and
Page 36 - sends for me to loo in Upper Grosvenorstreet — before I can get thither, I am begged to step to Kensington to give Mrs. Anne Pitt my opinion about a bow window — after the loo, I am to march back to Whitehall to supper— and after that, am to walk with miss Pelham on the
Page 415 - to make conquests, invasions, blunders, settlements, bankruptcies, fortunes, &c.; tells you the natural and historical history of all nations; talks commerce, navigation, tea, coffee, china, mines, salt, spices; of the Portuguese, English, French, Dutch, Danes, Spaniards, Arabs, Caravans, Persians, Indians, of Louis XIV. and the king of Prussia; of la
Page 294 - When I was directing the east window at Ely, I recollected the lines of Prior : " How unlucky were nature and art to poor Nell! She was painting her cheeks at the time her nose fell." Adorning cathedrals when the religion Itself totters, is very like poor Nell's mishap.
Page 81 - table : the mistress of the house, who formerly was his, inquires after every dish on the table, is told who has eaten of which, and then bawls the bill of fare of every individual into the president's ears. In short, every mouthful is proclaimed, and so is every blunder I make against grammar. Some that