Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now First Collected, Том 2Rodwell and Martin, 1820 |
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... truth , most of them ugly ) . Then such a Gothic hall , with pendent fret work in imitation of the old , and with a chimney - piece extremely like mine in the library ! such water - colour pictures ! such historic fragments ! In short ...
... truth , most of them ugly ) . Then such a Gothic hall , with pendent fret work in imitation of the old , and with a chimney - piece extremely like mine in the library ! such water - colour pictures ! such historic fragments ! In short ...
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... truth in lord Granville's going to Berlin ; by the clumsi- ness of the thought , I should take it for ministerial wit - and so , and so . The Twickenham Alabouches say that Legge is to marry the eldest Pelhamine infanta ; he loves a ...
... truth in lord Granville's going to Berlin ; by the clumsi- ness of the thought , I should take it for ministerial wit - and so , and so . The Twickenham Alabouches say that Legge is to marry the eldest Pelhamine infanta ; he loves a ...
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... truth . Mrs. Clive cried out like you , " Lord ! you will be sent to the Tower ! " " Well , " said I coolly , " my father was there before me . " Lord Abercorn's picture is extremely like ; he seems by the Vandyke habit to be got back ...
... truth . Mrs. Clive cried out like you , " Lord ! you will be sent to the Tower ! " " Well , " said I coolly , " my father was there before me . " Lord Abercorn's picture is extremely like ; he seems by the Vandyke habit to be got back ...
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... truth in all you have heard : but you don't seem to know that lord Corydon and captain Corydon his brother have been most abominable . I don't care to write scandal ; but when I see you , I will tell you how much the chits deserve to be ...
... truth in all you have heard : but you don't seem to know that lord Corydon and captain Corydon his brother have been most abominable . I don't care to write scandal ; but when I see you , I will tell you how much the chits deserve to be ...
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... I cannot speak to the truth of it , but the French are reported to have demanded two millions sterling of Hanover . 1 On the expedition to Rochfort . My whole letter will consist of hearsays ; for , 32 CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 32.
... I cannot speak to the truth of it , but the French are reported to have demanded two millions sterling of Hanover . 1 On the expedition to Rochfort . My whole letter will consist of hearsays ; for , 32 CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 32.
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Страница 207 - This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle ; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the...
Страница 227 - ... are exhausting the dregs of their pitiful lives in squabbles and pamphlets. The surprise the pictures gave me is again renewed ; accustomed for many years to see nothing but wretched daubs and varnished copies at auctions, I look at these as enchantment. My own description of them seems poor j but shall I tell you truly, the majesty of Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring.
Страница 221 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Страница 330 - Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work rags, and the embroidery nastiness.
Страница 347 - Why, the single eloquence of Mr. Pitt, like an annihilated star, can shine many months after it has set. I tell you it has conquered Martinico.
Страница 230 - It is plain I never knew for how many trades I was formed, when at this time of day I can begin electioneering, and succeed in my new vocation. Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the townhall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them, amid bumpers...
Страница 81 - Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro
Страница 5 - One scrambles over a huge terrass, on which mountain ashes and various trees spring out of the very rocks ; and at the brow is the den, but not spacious enough for such an inmate. However, I am persuaded it furnished Pope with this line, so exactly it answers to the picture : " On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes.
Страница 332 - ... prentices and old women. We stayed however till half an hour after one. The Methodists have promised them contributions ; provisions are sent in like forage, and all the taverns and ale-houses in the neighbourhood make fortunes.
Страница 481 - ... and veiling sense, Achieves that conquest o'er the heart Sense seldom gains, and never art : This lady, 'tis our royal will Our laureate's vacant seat should fill ; A chaplet of immortal bays Shall crown her...