English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century: With Explanatory NotesG. Bell & Sons, 1886 - 552 страници |
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... Sent by Temple to the Court on a political mission - Addresses an Ode to Congreve Leaves Moor Park in anger , visits Leicester , and then returns to Ireland - Takes Orders , and obtains the Prebend of Kilroot - Makes the acquaintance of ...
... Sent by Temple to the Court on a political mission - Addresses an Ode to Congreve Leaves Moor Park in anger , visits Leicester , and then returns to Ireland - Takes Orders , and obtains the Prebend of Kilroot - Makes the acquaintance of ...
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... sent on a mission to Hanover - The Whigs threaten to have the Premier's head - Discon- tent of the Tories with their Chief - Swift prays for the Queen's health - A " projector " and the longitude - Writes a letter ( of thirty pages ) to ...
... sent on a mission to Hanover - The Whigs threaten to have the Premier's head - Discon- tent of the Tories with their Chief - Swift prays for the Queen's health - A " projector " and the longitude - Writes a letter ( of thirty pages ) to ...
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... sent for -Horribly melancholy during his installation as Dean - Describes Laracor - Vanessa a good politician - His History of the Peace— Occupations on his farm - Davila - The coming Assizes at Trim- Trim acquaintance . 147-148 TO DR ...
... sent for -Horribly melancholy during his installation as Dean - Describes Laracor - Vanessa a good politician - His History of the Peace— Occupations on his farm - Davila - The coming Assizes at Trim- Trim acquaintance . 147-148 TO DR ...
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... sent Pope's epitaph on Gay to be copied , of which some lines ought to be corrected - Pope's Imitation of Horace , and his Essay on the Use of Riches , considered by his friends his chefs d'œuvre - Has chid Gay for writing a sequel to ...
... sent Pope's epitaph on Gay to be copied , of which some lines ought to be corrected - Pope's Imitation of Horace , and his Essay on the Use of Riches , considered by his friends his chefs d'œuvre - Has chid Gay for writing a sequel to ...
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... sent by himself just before - Has received only four of her letters , as against several from him - Begs her to write as often as possible - Any sort of news from her pleasing · 424-427 TO DR . PARNELL . No apologies or ceremony needed ...
... sent by himself just before - Has received only four of her letters , as against several from him - Begs her to write as often as possible - Any sort of news from her pleasing · 424-427 TO DR . PARNELL . No apologies or ceremony needed ...
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Страница 298 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Страница 63 - The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps ?) ' Then, Lord have -mercy on his soul ! ' (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) "' Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : 47 ' (I wish I knew what king to call) ' Madam, your husband will attend ' The funeral of so good a friend.
Страница 468 - When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is finished with shells interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp of an orbicular figure...
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Страница 381 - MADAM, IT will be in vain to deny that I have some regard for this piece, since I dedicate it to you ; yet you may bear me witness, it was intended only to divert a few young ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough to laugh not ojily at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their own.
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Страница 399 - Whig, as I rather hope, and as I think your principles and mine (as brother poets) had ever a bias to the side of liberty, I know you will be an honest man and an inoffensive one. Upon the whole, I know you are incapable of being so much of either party as to be good for nothing. Therefore, once more, whatever you are or in whatever state you are, all hail!