The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1735-1759Henry Colburn, 1837 |
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... is no dishonour to keep public gaming - houses : there are at least an hundred and fifty people of the first quality in Paris who live by it . You may go into their houses at all hours of the night , and HON . HORACE WALPOLE , 13.
... is no dishonour to keep public gaming - houses : there are at least an hundred and fifty people of the first quality in Paris who live by it . You may go into their houses at all hours of the night , and HON . HORACE WALPOLE , 13.
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... hundred of officers ; all men of a certain fashion , very amiable , and who know their world . Our women grow 1 Louis Charles , of Bourbon , second son of the Duc de Maine , the son of Louis XIV . and Madame de Montespan . [ Ed . ] 2 ...
... hundred of officers ; all men of a certain fashion , very amiable , and who know their world . Our women grow 1 Louis Charles , of Bourbon , second son of the Duc de Maine , the son of Louis XIV . and Madame de Montespan . [ Ed . ] 2 ...
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... hundred and thirty nine , I received the last letter from you ; by your not writing to me since , I imagine you propose to make this leap year . I should have sent many a scold after you in this long interval , had I known where to have ...
... hundred and thirty nine , I received the last letter from you ; by your not writing to me since , I imagine you propose to make this leap year . I should have sent many a scold after you in this long interval , had I known where to have ...
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... hundreds of little crystal lamps , which appears through the great altar under the grand tribuna , as if hanging by itself in the air . All the confraternities of the city resort thither in solemn procession , habited in linen frocks ...
... hundreds of little crystal lamps , which appears through the great altar under the grand tribuna , as if hanging by itself in the air . All the confraternities of the city resort thither in solemn procession , habited in linen frocks ...
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... hundred years Rome will not be worth seeing ; ' tis less so now than one would believe . All the public pictures are decayed , or decaying : the few ruins cannot last long : and the statues and private collections must be sold , from ...
... hundred years Rome will not be worth seeing ; ' tis less so now than one would believe . All the public pictures are decayed , or decaying : the few ruins cannot last long : and the statues and private collections must be sold , from ...
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