The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford, Том 5Clarendon Press, 1904 |
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Adieu afterwards Arlington Street arrived Baron Baronet beauty believe Bishop brother Charles Townshend charming Coronation court DEAR SIR Duchess of Grafton Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle English expect France French Friday gallery George Grenville George Montagu George Selwyn give glad Greatworth Grenville hear heard Henry Seymour Conway honour hope Horace Walpole Ireland James's John July King of Prussia King's Lady Mary Coke late LETTER live Lord Bute Lord Sandwich Lord Temple Lordship Madam married minister Miss Monday morning never night North Briton obliged painted Paris Parliament peace Pitt Princess Queen received resigned Secretary sent Sept servant Sir Horace Mann Spain Strawberry Hill suppose t'other talk tell thought thousand pounds to-day told town Viscount Waldegrave week wife Wilkes William Cole wish Wortley write yesterday
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Страница 41 - Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time : every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into which I have not yet had courage to enter, where lies that mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me ! There are the two rival mistresses of Houghton, neither of whom ever wished to enjoy it! There too lies he who founded its greatness, to contribute to whose fall Europe was embroiled ; there he sleeps in quiet and dignity...
Страница 387 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Страница 41 - Bath, 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 l seems poor — but shall I tell you truly— the majesty of Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring...
Страница 168 - I told her so, and she was not so tolerable twenty years ago that she need have taken it for flattery, but she did, and literally gave me a box on the ear. She is very lively, all her senses perfect, her languages as imperfect as ever, her avarice greater.
Страница 38 - 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 42 - I have chosen to sit in my father's little dressing-room, and am now by his scrutoire, where, in the height of his fortune, he used to receive the accounts of his farmers, and deceive himself, or us, with the thoughts of his economy. How wise a man at once, and how weak! For what has he built Houghton ? for his grandson to annihilate, or for his son to mourn over.
Страница 111 - Palace-yard the liveliest spectacle in the world: the hall was the most glorious. The blaze of lights, the richness and variety of habits, the ceremonial, the benches of peers and peeresses, frequent and full, was as awful as a pageant can be; and yet for the king's sake and my own, I never wish to see another ; nor am impatient to have my lord Effingham's promise fulfilled.
Страница 86 - I dined with your secretary yesterday ; there were Garrick and a young Mr. Burke, who wrote a book in the style of Lord Bolingbroke, that was much admired.' He is a sensible man, but has not worn off his authorism yet, and thinks there is nothing so charming as writers, and to be one. He will know better one of these days.
Страница 111 - ... full, was as awful as a pageant can be : and yet for the King's sake and my own, I never wish to see another ; nor am impatient to have my Lord Effingham's promise fulfilled. The King complained that so few precedents were kept for their proceedings. Lord Effingham owned, the Earl Marshal's office had been strangely neglected ; but he had taken such care for the future, that the next coronation would be regulated in the most exact manner imaginable.
Страница 170 - York, and the company squeezed themselves into one another's pockets to make room for us. The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable; 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 there by inches in such insufferable heat and stench.