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" ... poetry, so much originality, never met together before. Then the man has a better ear than Dryden or Handel. Apropos to Dryden, he has burlesqued his St. Cecilia, that you will never read it again without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's... "
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters ... - Page 150
by Horace Walpole - 1840
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a methodist...incomparable, and the best names that ever were composed. 1 can say it by heart, though a quarto, and if I had time would write it you down ; for it is not yet...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape,painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a methodist...incomparable, and the best names that ever were composed. J can say it by heart, though a quarto, and if I had time would write it you down; for it is not yet...
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Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...but so much wit, so much humour, fun aod poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and If I had time would write it you down ; for It b at . 31. OUTCRY AGAINST DON JUAN. Betty, hearken ; ' — take up, in short, Pope, Prior, Congreve,...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1759-1769

Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will b By Christopher Anstey. This production became highly popular for its pointed and original humour,...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters ...

Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will b By Christopher Anstey. Tins production became highly popular for its pointed and original humour,...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...without laughing. There is a deseription of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a. Moravian ode, and a Methodist...volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will ' Mary Countess of Shelburne, widow of the Hon. John Fitzmaurice, first Earl of Shelburne. She was...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...much humor, fun, and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and, if I had lime, would write it you down ; for it is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had." Gray commended it toWharton, and Smollett wrote his Humphrey Clinker (the last and best of his works)...
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The Life of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...but so much wit, so much humour, fun and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and If I had time would write It you down ; for It is not JET. 31. OUTCRY AGAINST DON JUAN. 429 Betty, hearken ; ' — take up, in short, Pope, Prior, Congreve,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 10

1846 - 636 pages
...but so much wit, so much humor, fun, and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and, if I had time, would write it you down ; for it is not yet re-printed, and not one to be had." Gray commended it to Wharton, and Smollett wrote his Humphrey Clinker (the last and best of his works)...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 33

1846 - 784 pages
...so much humour, fun, and poetry, never met together be. fore. I can say it by heart, and, if I bad time, would write it you down , for it is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had/ Gray commended it to Wharton, and Smollett wrote his Humphrey Clinker (the last and best of his works)...
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