The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1735-1748Lea and Blanchard, 1842 - Authors, English |
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... . - Sir Robert's morning levees . His resignation . Created Earl of Orford To the same , Feb. 9. - Political changes . Opposition meeting at the Foun- - 207 - 212 - 218 - tain . Cry against Sir Robert . Instructions to xiv CONTENTS .
... . - Sir Robert's morning levees . His resignation . Created Earl of Orford To the same , Feb. 9. - Political changes . Opposition meeting at the Foun- - 207 - 212 - 218 - tain . Cry against Sir Robert . Instructions to xiv CONTENTS .
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... created Earl of Bath To the same , June 30. - Second Report of the Secret Committee . tender . Intercepted letters . Lord Barrymore 260 261 263 - 265 The Pre- - 267 - - 269 To the same . - Lines on the death of Richard West , Esq . " A ...
... created Earl of Bath To the same , June 30. - Second Report of the Secret Committee . tender . Intercepted letters . Lord Barrymore 260 261 263 - 265 The Pre- - 267 - - 269 To the same . - Lines on the death of Richard West , Esq . " A ...
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... created a baronet , with remainder to the issue of his brother Galfridus Mann , and , in the reign of George the Third , a knight of the Bath . It will be observed that Walpole calls his correspondent Mr. Mann , whereas the title- pages ...
... created a baronet , with remainder to the issue of his brother Galfridus Mann , and , in the reign of George the Third , a knight of the Bath . It will be observed that Walpole calls his correspondent Mr. Mann , whereas the title- pages ...
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... created in 1723 , who succeeded his father in the Earldom of Orford in 1745 , and died in 1751 ; and Sir Edward Wal- pole , Knight of the Bath , whose three natural daughters were , Mrs. Keppel , wife to the Honourable Frederick Keppel ...
... created in 1723 , who succeeded his father in the Earldom of Orford in 1745 , and died in 1751 ; and Sir Edward Wal- pole , Knight of the Bath , whose three natural daughters were , Mrs. Keppel , wife to the Honourable Frederick Keppel ...
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... created respecting them . In 1764 Walpole published one of the most remarkable of his works , " The Castle of Otranto ; " and in 1768 his still more remarka- ble production , " The Mysterious Mother . " In speaking of the latter effort ...
... created respecting them . In 1764 Walpole published one of the most remarkable of his works , " The Castle of Otranto ; " and in 1768 his still more remarka- ble production , " The Mysterious Mother . " In speaking of the latter effort ...
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Adieu Admiral afterwards Amorevoli answer Argyll bedchamber believe brother called chancellor Charles Wager Chute cicisbeo Conway court dear child DEAR WEST death died Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke of Newcastle election England English father Florence Francis French George give Gray hear heard honour Horace Walpole House Jacobite King King's Lady Mary laughed Leghorn letter London Lord Carteret Lord Chesterfield Lord Conway Lord Hervey Lord Lincoln Lord Orford Madame Majesty Marlborough married minister morning never opera parliament Patapan Pelham person Pope Prince of Wales Princess Pultney Queen received RICHARD WEST Rome Sandys second Earl Secret Committee sent Sir Charles Sir Francis Dashwood SIR HORACE MANN Sir John Sir Robert Walpole sister suppose talk tell thing thought thousand to-day to-morrow told Tories town treasury Viscount vote Walpole's week wife William write yesterday young
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Page 95 - Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir ?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Page 278 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Gibber's Name.
Page 173 - On! on! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production ; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime construction, Which mixes up vines — olives — precipices — Glaciers— volcanoes — oranges and ices.
Page 563 - I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.
Page 52 - You perceive by my date that I am got into a new camp, and have left my tub at Windsor. It is a little play-thinghouse that I got out of Mrs. Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold.
Page 500 - Balmerino followed, alone, in a blue coat, turned up with red, (his rebellious regimentals), a flannel waistcoat, and his shroud beneath; their hearses following. They were conducted to a house near the scaffold: the room forwards had benches for spectators, in the second Lord Kilmarnock was put, and in the third backwards Lord Balmerino: all three chambers hung with black. Here they parted! Balmerino embraced the other, and said, "My lord, I wish I could suffer for both!
Page 56 - Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
Page 284 - Think we all these are for himself? no more Than his fine wife, alas ! or finer whore. For what has Virro painted, built, and planted ? Only to show how many tastes he wanted. What brought Sir Visto's ill-got wealth to waste? Some demon whisper'd,
Page 374 - I have been talking of, you must be informed, that every night constantly I go to Ranelagh; which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes anywhere else — everybody goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither.
Page 46 - I am very exactly informed of your impertinent inquiries, and of the information you so busily sent to Richmond, and with what triumph and exultation it was received. I knew every particular of it the next day. Now, mark me, vagabond ! Keep to your pantomimes, or be assured you shall hear of it. Meddle no more, thou busy informer ! It is in my power to make you curse the hour in which you dared to interfere with Junius."* Mr.