The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes: First Lord Houghton, Том 1Cassell, 1890 - 544 страници |
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admiration affectionate Alfred Tennyson amused Arthur Hallam Bawtry beautiful believe breakfast Buller C. J. MacCarthy Cambridge career character Charles Buller Connop Thirlwall dear Milnes delighted dine dinner Duke England English father feel French friends friendship Fryston give Gladstone Government Guizot Hallam hear heard honour hope House of Commons interest kind King knew Lady letter literary living London look Lord Houghton Lord John Lord Palmerston MILNES,-I Milnes's mind Miss Monckton Milnes morning never Paris Parliament party Pemberton Milnes pleasant pleasure poems poet political Pontefract R. M. M. to C. J. regard Richard Milnes Richard Monckton Milnes Rome seems seen Sir Robert Peel sister social society Sydney Smith sympathy talk tell Tennyson Thackeray things Thirlwall thought tion to-day told town W. E. Gladstone week whilst wife wish Wordsworth write wrote young
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Страница 180 - ... Believe me always thine affectionately, A. TENNYSON. I have spoken with Charles. He has promised to contribute to your Annual1. Frederick will, I daresay, follow his example. See now whether I am not doing my best for you, and whether you had any occasion to threaten me with that black "Anacaona2" and her cocoashod coves of niggers.
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Страница 338 - Kalisch in his yeomanry uniform, and assisted at the festivals of Barcelona in an Andalusian jacket. He was everywhere and at everything; he had gone down in a diving-bell and gone up in a balloon. As for his acquaintances, he was welcomed in every land; his universal sympathies seemed omnipotent. Emperor and king, jacobin and carbonaro, alike cherished him. He' was the steward of Polish balls and the vindicator of Russian humanity; he dined with Louis Philippe and gave dinners to Louis Blanc.