The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: With Some of the Letters of Her Correspondents, Том 2Wells and Lilly, 1825 |
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Страница 113 - most emphatically, and I leave you to interpret what it meant. He has made a friendship with one person here, whom I believe you would not imagine to have been made for his bosom friend. You would, perhaps, suppose it was a bishop...
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Страница 262 - In this eclogue he gives hints of that spacious style which was to distinguish him, and which, like his own Fame, " With golden wings aloft doth fly Above the reach of ruinous decay, And with brave plumes doth beat the azure sky, Admired of base-born men from far away.
Страница 113 - The waters,' says Mrs Montagu, ' have raised his spirits to a fine pitch, as your grace will imagine, when I tell you how sublime an answer he made to a very vulgar question. I asked him how long he stayed at the Wells : he said, As long as my rival stayed ; — as long as the sun did.
Страница 254 - Pitt had provided us a good dinner ; the view from it is romantic ; we staid there till the cool of the evening, and then returned home. We drank tea yesterday in the most beautiful rural scene that can be imagined, which Mr. Pitt had discovered in his morning's ride, about half a mile from hence ; he ordered a tent to be pitched, tea to be prepared, and his French horn to breathe music like the unseen genius of the wood.
Страница 54 - I am very happy that drinking is not within our walls; we have not had one person disordered by liquor since we came down; though most of the poor ladies in the neighbourhood have had more hogs in their diningroom than ever they had in their hogsty.