The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... seem very vain and insolent : but consider , Sir , what a monarch is a man who wants nothing ! consider how he looks down on one who is only the most illustrious man in England ! But Sir , freedoms apart , insig- nificant as I am ...
... seem very vain and insolent : but consider , Sir , what a monarch is a man who wants nothing ! consider how he looks down on one who is only the most illustrious man in England ! But Sir , freedoms apart , insig- nificant as I am ...
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... seems . But this I take to be the case ; when the former part appeared , the world was not accustomed to a good style as it is now . I question if the History of the Rebellion had been published but this summer , whether it would be ...
... seems . But this I take to be the case ; when the former part appeared , the world was not accustomed to a good style as it is now . I question if the History of the Rebellion had been published but this summer , whether it would be ...
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... seem to have views ; and yet it went so much against me , that I came to town on purpose a month ago for the Duke's levee , and had engaged Brand to go with me - and then could not bring myself to it . At last , I went to him and the ...
... seem to have views ; and yet it went so much against me , that I came to town on purpose a month ago for the Duke's levee , and had engaged Brand to go with me - and then could not bring myself to it . At last , I went to him and the ...
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... seems to determine that there shall at last be such a thing as winter quarters ; but Daun and the King of Prussia are still choosing King and Queen in the field . There is a horrid scene of distress in the family of Cavendish ; the ...
... seems to determine that there shall at last be such a thing as winter quarters ; but Daun and the King of Prussia are still choosing King and Queen in the field . There is a horrid scene of distress in the family of Cavendish ; the ...
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... seem amused with my entertainments , I will tell you how I passed yesterday . A party was made to go to the Magdalen - house . We met at Northumberland - house at five , and set out in four coaches . Prince Edward , Colonel Brudenel his ...
... seem amused with my entertainments , I will tell you how I passed yesterday . A party was made to go to the Magdalen - house . We met at Northumberland - house at five , and set out in four coaches . Prince Edward , Colonel Brudenel his ...
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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.