The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... heard it , and sailed after Hawke , without landing his glory . No express arrived , storms blew ; we knew not what to think . This morning at four we heard that , on the 20th , Sir Edward Hawke came in sight of the French , who were ...
... heard it , and sailed after Hawke , without landing his glory . No express arrived , storms blew ; we knew not what to think . This morning at four we heard that , on the 20th , Sir Edward Hawke came in sight of the French , who were ...
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... heard of it ; in short , even to common figures , I am the dullest dunce alive . I have often said it of myself , and it is true , that nothing that has not a proper name of a man or a woman to it , affixes any idea upon my mind . I ...
... heard of it ; in short , even to common figures , I am the dullest dunce alive . I have often said it of myself , and it is true , that nothing that has not a proper name of a man or a woman to it , affixes any idea upon my mind . I ...
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... heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness . As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun - one cannot make a blunder but he profits of it - and this just at the moment that we heard of ...
... heard yet that the monarch owns his rashness . As often as he does , indeed , he is apt to repair it . You know I have always dreaded Daun - one cannot make a blunder but he profits of it - and this just at the moment that we heard of ...
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... heard her will yet . If you don't come to town soon , I give you warning , I will be a lord of the bedchamber , or a gentleman usher . If you will , I will a Walpole , in his Memoires , vol . ii . p . 401 , gives a particular account of ...
... heard her will yet . If you don't come to town soon , I give you warning , I will be a lord of the bedchamber , or a gentleman usher . If you will , I will a Walpole , in his Memoires , vol . ii . p . 401 , gives a particular account of ...
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... heard , I suppose , a horrid story of another kind , of Lord Ferrers murdering his steward in the most barbarous and deliberate manner . He sent away all his servants but one , and , like that heroic murderess Queen Christina , carried ...
... heard , I suppose , a horrid story of another kind , of Lord Ferrers murdering his steward in the most barbarous and deliberate manner . He sent away all his servants but one , and , like that heroic murderess Queen Christina , carried ...
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Adieu admire afterwards amuse antè Arlington Street bedchamber believe Bishop brother called Charles Townshend charming Countess court daughter dear lord DEAR SIR Duchess Duchess of Bedford Duchess of Grafton Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle Earl England expect fear French gallery George Grenville GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give glad gout Grafton Greatworth Guerchy H. S. CONWAY hear heard honour hope Ireland King King's Lady Ailesbury Lady Mary ladyship last night late laugh letter live London Lord Bute Lord Temple Madame Madame du Deffand married minister Miss Monday morning never North Briton obliged Opera Paris Parliament picture Pitt politics Prince Princess Queen sent sister sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure t'other talk tell thing thought thousand pounds to-day to-morrow told town Waldegrave Walpole week wife Wilkes wish write yesterday
Popular passages
Page 337 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Page 245 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Page 540 - Letters. Poor man ! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it : his correspondence is about nothing eke but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
Page 513 - I am not yet intoxicated enough with it to think it would do for the stage, though I wish to see it acted ; but, as Mrs. Pritchard leaves the stage next month, I know nobody could play the Countess; nor am I disposed to expose myself to the impertinences of that jackanapes Garrick, 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.
Page 29 - Indeed," says Horace Walpole, in his lively style, " one is forced to ask every " morning what victory there is, for fear of missing " one !
Page 52 - Sermons,' with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
Page 245 - But he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.
Page 280 - I stood near him ; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr— his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.
Page 169 - When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench.
Page 118 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible and reasonable, and civilized; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and postchaises, which, if they have abridged the King's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects.