Letters, 1784-1789Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... wish the excellent Dutchess's fête had been the end of June instead of July . Yet notwith- standing my impatience to have you here , I wish you to contrive to return by Spa , if you can with convenience and propriety . I know nothing ...
... wish the excellent Dutchess's fête had been the end of June instead of July . Yet notwith- standing my impatience to have you here , I wish you to contrive to return by Spa , if you can with convenience and propriety . I know nothing ...
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... wish the K. of S. had courage enough to come here . What charming derry- down songs and catches we should make about his jumping out of his own parlour- window into his garden , from the dread of one of his free nobles , who had pe ...
... wish the K. of S. had courage enough to come here . What charming derry- down songs and catches we should make about his jumping out of his own parlour- window into his garden , from the dread of one of his free nobles , who had pe ...
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... Sir Roger's direction , under his eye . I desire to be respectfully remembered to the divine Dutchess , and affectionately to the Baron , Madame , and all our old VOL . III . D friends . I wish you to send me the Alma- 49.
... Sir Roger's direction , under his eye . I desire to be respectfully remembered to the divine Dutchess , and affectionately to the Baron , Madame , and all our old VOL . III . D friends . I wish you to send me the Alma- 49.
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John Wilkes. friends . I wish you to send me the Alma- nach Royal for this year , which has not yet come to England , and a pattern of a small Sève dessert plate . It has rained a good deal every day for the last week , but the hay is ...
John Wilkes. friends . I wish you to send me the Alma- nach Royal for this year , which has not yet come to England , and a pattern of a small Sève dessert plate . It has rained a good deal every day for the last week , but the hay is ...
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... wish the Marquis de Lusignan would send me one Sève figure . Pray hint it to the Baron . I am captivated by the delicacy of the Sève biscuit . Were Benevolence to assume a human form , the goddess would appear in the person of the ...
... wish the Marquis de Lusignan would send me one Sève figure . Pray hint it to the Baron . I am captivated by the delicacy of the Sève biscuit . Were Benevolence to assume a human form , the goddess would appear in the person of the ...
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Adieu Alderman Anacharsis arrived Baron Baron d'Holbach believe bills Brighthelmstone Calais Captain Chamberlain charming Colonel compliments contrive Cosway d'Holbach dear daughter dearest daughter dearest Polly desire diligence dined dinner Dover Duke elegant Elmsly enclose excellent Dutchess favour fête France French Friday friends give glad Gordon Grosvenor Square guineas Guyon happy Hastings hear High Bailiff honour hope House of Commons Isle of Wight Journaux journey July June Kensington Gore Lady last week late Leguillon letter likewise London Lord Lord Lansdowne Madame mention Mercure Monday morning night obliged packet Paice parcel Paris Parliament petition Pitt pleased pleasure present Prince Prince's Court prints racter received Sandham Cottage Saturday says sent servant settled Sève Sir William South Parade Sunday Susan Swinburne thank thing Thursday tion to-day to-morrow Tuesday Valliere weather Wednesday Westminster Wilkes wish write wrote yesterday
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Страница 39 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Страница 220 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Страница 259 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Страница 220 - Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie, What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face Eyed through Hope's deluding glass...
Страница 220 - Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear.
Страница 24 - Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Страница 41 - I was obliged to eat stale fish, and swallow sour port, with sir Cecil Wray, Mr. Martin the banker, Dr. Jebb, &c. to promote the grand reform of parliament. I was forced into the chair, and was so far happy as to be highly applauded, both for a long speech, and my conduct as president through an arduous day. I have not, however, authenticated to the public any account of the day's proceeding, nor given to the press the various new-fangled toasts which were the amusement of the hour, and should perish...
Страница 297 - Tooke. t On this subject, Mr. Wilkes relates the following anecdote : — The Bishop of B. told me that a most respectable lady, of his particular friendship, said to him, " The Prince came in here yesterday, overjoyed, saying, ' I never did better in any thing ; I behaved incomparably well ; I could not have thought it, as the case was quite new to me.
Страница 143 - Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer?
Страница 240 - A looking-glass, in a pier, between two windows, had been covered with green cloth to prevent the king's seeing how greatly he was emaciated. The king asked the reason of the green cloth being put there. The answer was, ' To prevent the reflection of too much light.