Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].1812 |
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... sure my lord duke is a most miserable man , who has found one person who has taken away that passion for change , which is the boast and happiness of so many people . Pray tell my lord Dupplin that I never heard of a viscount that was a ...
... sure my lord duke is a most miserable man , who has found one person who has taken away that passion for change , which is the boast and happiness of so many people . Pray tell my lord Dupplin that I never heard of a viscount that was a ...
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... sure any thing is more acceptable to you than news and compliments , so I always give your grace the present thoughts of my heart . I beg my compliments to lady Oxford , who I hope is better . I am , madam , your grace's most obedient ...
... sure any thing is more acceptable to you than news and compliments , so I always give your grace the present thoughts of my heart . I beg my compliments to lady Oxford , who I hope is better . I am , madam , your grace's most obedient ...
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... sure of passing with you again . I was a month at Hatch , where the good - humour of the family makes every thing agreeable ; we had great variety in the house : children in cradles , and old women in PART I. MRS . MONTAGU .
... sure of passing with you again . I was a month at Hatch , where the good - humour of the family makes every thing agreeable ; we had great variety in the house : children in cradles , and old women in PART I. MRS . MONTAGU .
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... sure his grace will never have it much , for it is a distemper always accom panied by peevishness ; and as he has not the smallest grain of that in his composition , he can never have a constitution troubled with the gout . What will ...
... sure his grace will never have it much , for it is a distemper always accom panied by peevishness ; and as he has not the smallest grain of that in his composition , he can never have a constitution troubled with the gout . What will ...
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... sure you did not . My sister is just gone from me ; our first meeting under the same roof was this morning ; you will imagine wė lengthened our happiness as long as the day ; this evening she retired a little the sooner , to give me ...
... sure you did not . My sister is just gone from me ; our first meeting under the same roof was this morning ; you will imagine wė lengthened our happiness as long as the day ; this evening she retired a little the sooner , to give me ...
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acquaintance Adieu admired Æneid affection affectionate agreeable amusement baron d'Holbach Bath believe Blackheath BRADSHAIGH Charles Avison CHESTERFIELD TO DR compliments DEAR DAYROLLES DEAR LORD DEAR SIR desire DUCHESS OF PORTLAND Dunciad ELIZABETH MONTAGU esteem excuse expect eyes faithful Falstaff father favour fear friendship give glad gout grace GRAY TO DR happy hear heart Hippomedon honour hope IGNATIUS SANCHO imagine kind lady ladyship learning Leasowes least leave live London LORD CHESTERFIELD madam mean melancholy ment mind Mnestheus Mount Morris never night obliged occasion one's opinion person Peterhouse pleased pleasure poor Pray present pretty racter RICHARDSON ROBINSON seen SHENSTONE sincere spirit STERNE sure tell temper thank thing THOMAS PITT thought Tibullus tion town true truth vanity wish woman word worse write
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Page 145 - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress, and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was...
Page 152 - ... for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff'; but...
Page 152 - We have old Mr. Southern at a gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old,* and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Page 199 - I live ! my gardens are in the window, like those of a lodger up three pair of stairs in Petticoat Lane, or Camomile Street, and they go to bed regularly under the same roof that I do : dear, how charming it must be to walk out in one's own garden, and sit on a bench in the open air with a fountain, and a leaden statue, and a rolling stone, and an arbour ! have a care of sore throats though, and the agoe.
Page 234 - For God's sake, persuade her to come and fix in England, for life is too short to waste in separation ; and, whilst she lives in one country, and I in another, many people will suppose it proceeds from choice ; — besides, I want thee near me, thou child and darling of my heart...
Page 148 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 171 - Cat, the name you distinguish her by, I am no less at a loss, as well knowing one's handsome cat is always the cat one...
Page 230 - Sancho! any more than mine? It is by the finest tints, and most insensible gradations, that nature descends from the fairest face about St James's, to the sootiest complexion in Africa: — at which tint of these is it, that the ties of blood are to cease? and how many shades must we descend lower still in the scale, ere Mercy is to vanish with them?
Page 148 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 170 - In the first place he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book ; it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties, and what is worse, leaves you to extricate yourself as you can.