The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts ...Lea and Blanchard, 1842 |
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... expect to see fresh Humes and fresh Burkes , before we again fall in with that peculiar combination of moral and intellectual qualities to which the writings of Horace Wal- pole owe their extraordinary popularity . " As a suitable ...
... expect to see fresh Humes and fresh Burkes , before we again fall in with that peculiar combination of moral and intellectual qualities to which the writings of Horace Wal- pole owe their extraordinary popularity . " As a suitable ...
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... expect a good deal of alloy . I engage for no method , no regularity , no polish . My narrative will probably resemble siege- pieces , which are struck of any promiscuous metals ; and , though they bear the impress of some sovereign's ...
... expect a good deal of alloy . I engage for no method , no regularity , no polish . My narrative will probably resemble siege- pieces , which are struck of any promiscuous metals ; and , though they bear the impress of some sovereign's ...
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... expect no favour . Of her jealousy I do know the following instance ; Queen Anne had bestowed the rangership of Richmond New Park on her relations the Hydes for three lives , one of which was expired . King George , fond of shooting ...
... expect no favour . Of her jealousy I do know the following instance ; Queen Anne had bestowed the rangership of Richmond New Park on her relations the Hydes for three lives , one of which was expired . King George , fond of shooting ...
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... expect . Among those who had preferred the service of the King to that of the heir apparent , was the Duke of Newcastle ; who , having mar- ried his sister to Lord Townshend , both his Royal Highness and the viscount had expected would ...
... expect . Among those who had preferred the service of the King to that of the heir apparent , was the Duke of Newcastle ; who , having mar- ried his sister to Lord Townshend , both his Royal Highness and the viscount had expected would ...
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... expecting it would be opened and read in council . On the contrary , his Majesty put it into his pocket , and stalked out of the room without uttering a word on the subject . The poor prelate was thunderstruck , and had not the presence ...
... expecting it would be opened and read in council . On the contrary , his Majesty put it into his pocket , and stalked out of the room without uttering a word on the subject . The poor prelate was thunderstruck , and had not the presence ...
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Page 196 - I remember an instance : when I published the Plan for my Dictionary, Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state ; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait l.
Page 173 - On! on! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production ; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime construction, Which mixes up vines — olives — precipices — Glaciers— volcanoes — oranges and ices.
Page 52 - You perceive by my date that I am got into a new camp, and have left my tub at Windsor. It is a little play-thinghouse that I got out of Mrs. Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold.
Page 503 - ... arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation. He was not a quarter of an hour on the scaffold ; Lord Kilmarnock above half a one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing every window and top of house filled with spectators, he cried out, 'Look, look, how they are all piled up like rotten oranges!
Page 408 - He exercis'd his troops, the signal given, Flew off at once with his Numidian horse To the south gate, where Marcus holds the watch. I saw, and call'd to stop him, but in vain, He toss'd his arm aloft, and proudly told me He would not stay and perish like Sempronius.
Page 491 - Balmerino asked the bystanders who this person was ? and being told, he said, " Oh, Mr. Murray ! I am extremely glad to see you ; I have been with several of your relations ; the good lady, your mother, was of great use to us at Perth.
Page 313 - But yesterday was the greatest stroke of all! She made her ladies vow to her, that if she should lie senseless, they would not sit down in the room before she was dead.
Page 56 - Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
Page 499 - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more." The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
Page 490 - Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Cromartie are both past forty, but look younger. Lord Kilmarnock is tall and slender, with an extreme fine person : his behaviour a most just mixture between dignity and submission ; if in anything to be reprehended, a little affected, and his hair too exactly dressed for a man in his situation ; but when I say this, it is not to find fault with him, but to show how little fault there was to be found.