Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now First Collected, Volume 2Rodwell and Martin, 1820 |
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... court and towers : in the castle - yard , a statue of the late lord who built it . Without the park is a lake on each side , buried in noble woods . - Now contrast all this , and you may have some idea of lord Rockingham's . Imagine a ...
... court and towers : in the castle - yard , a statue of the late lord who built it . Without the park is a lake on each side , buried in noble woods . - Now contrast all this , and you may have some idea of lord Rockingham's . Imagine a ...
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... courts , retires to a hermitage , and will let his beard grow as long as his duchess's . And so you are surprised ! and the next ques- tion you will ask will be , who succeeds ? Truly that used to be a question the easiest in the world ...
... courts , retires to a hermitage , and will let his beard grow as long as his duchess's . And so you are surprised ! and the next ques- tion you will ask will be , who succeeds ? Truly that used to be a question the easiest in the world ...
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... court.- So entirely have we lost our spirit , that the standing - army is forced to defend us against the people , when we endeavour to give them a militia , to save them from a standing army ; and that the representative of the ...
... court.- So entirely have we lost our spirit , that the standing - army is forced to defend us against the people , when we endeavour to give them a militia , to save them from a standing army ; and that the representative of the ...
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... court was removed in a panic to Lyons , and that the mesdames had gone off in their shifts with only a provision of rouge for a week . Nay , for my part , I expected to be deafened with encomiums on my lord Anson's continence , who ...
... court was removed in a panic to Lyons , and that the mesdames had gone off in their shifts with only a provision of rouge for a week . Nay , for my part , I expected to be deafened with encomiums on my lord Anson's continence , who ...
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... court with the dogs and the children , in my slippers and without my hat . He had had some doubt whether I was the painter or the factotum of the family ; but you would have died at his surprise when he saw ine walk into dinner dressed ...
... court with the dogs and the children , in my slippers and without my hat . He had had some doubt whether I was the painter or the factotum of the family ; but you would have died at his surprise when he saw ine walk into dinner dressed ...
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Page 203 - This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle ; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the...
Page 223 - ... 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 seems poor j but shall I tell you truly, the majesty of Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring.
Page 217 - 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.
Page 326 - Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work rags, and the embroidery nastiness.
Page 343 - Why, the single eloquence of Mr. Pitt, like an annihilated star, can shine many months after it has set. I tell you it has conquered Martinico.
Page 226 - It is plain I never knew for how many trades I was formed, when at this time of day I can begin electioneering, and succeed in my new vocation. Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the townhall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them, amid bumpers...
Page 79 - Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro
Page 5 - One scrambles over a huge terrass, on which mountain ashes and various trees spring out of the very rocks ; and at the brow is the den, but not spacious enough for such an inmate. However, I am persuaded it furnished Pope with this line, so exactly it answers to the picture : " On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes.
Page 328 - ... prentices and old women. We stayed however till half an hour after one. The Methodists have promised them contributions ; provisions are sent in like forage, and all the taverns and ale-houses in the neighbourhood make fortunes.
Page 467 - ... and veiling sense, Achieves that conquest o'er the heart Sense seldom gains, and never art : This lady, 'tis our royal will Our laureate's vacant seat should fill ; A chaplet of immortal bays Shall crown her...