English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century: With Explanatory Notes

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HagleyMr Lyttleton expects Mr GrenvilleStowe at its best
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TO ESTHER JOHNSON Noisy company at the Green Cloth Table after
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TO HESTER VANHOMRIGH GossipLoses his money at Ombre with
145
TO HESTER VANHOMRIGH Sets out for Ireland to take the oaths
153
To ALEXANDER POPE Interrogates Ford as to Popes political princi
160
Archbishop could so many years have corresponded with him believ
165
TO ROBERT COPE Strange revolutionsPolitical reverses of
173
TO THE HON MRS HOWARD Sends her a piece of Irish plaidThe
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TO ARCHBISHOP KING Expected settlement of the Treaty of Utrecht
200
through Ireland and through half EnglandHis aversion for the term
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To ALEXANDER POPE Describes the AchesonsLady Acheson
210
TO LORD BOLINGBROKE Acknowledges travelling letters Depre
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TO LORD ORRERY Excise on Tobacco BillFurther taxes imminent
233
TO DR SHERIDAN A rhyming letterA prophetic calendar in verso
253
gagementsNebuchadnezzar and John CoryateHis visit to Ciren
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TO WILLIAM WALSH On his Pastorals and on Pastoral poetryThe
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himModern bards in SpringTheir productions compared to flowers
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TO JOHN GAY Complains of perpetual sicknessImmortality of
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TO JOHN CARYLL Too much devoted to Homer to visit Ladyholt
377
TO ESTHER JOHNSON Fears for the safety of Charles XII King
380
TO MARTHA BLOUNT Writes from the BathNeglects a large company
381
TO DR PARNELL Entreats him to return to BinfieldEntirely
384
TO ESTHER JOHNSON Accompanies the Premier to WindsorOccupies
385
TO WILLIAM FORTESCUE His lawyerfriend does not deserve
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Page 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.
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Page 185 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
Page 306 - I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian myself. But this is my way : I agree with them for ten shillings per sheet, with a proviso that I will have their doings corrected...
Page 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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Page 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!

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