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almoſt alſo anecdotes anſwered aſked becauſe called Castle of Otranto cauſe compoſition converſation Counteſs courſe defired Duchess of Beaufort Duke Earl Engliſh exiſtence expreſſed faid falſe fame faſhion father fatire fent finiſhed firſt fome foon France French fuch fuperior grace himſelf hiſtory Horace Walpole horſe houſe humble ſervant intereſt juſt king Lady laſt leſs Lord lordſhip Louis XIV Madame Maſon Miſs miſtreſs moſt muſt myſelf never obſerved occafion Original Letter paſs paſſed perſon philofopher pleaſed pleaſure portraits poſſible praiſe preſent Prince publiſhed Queen racter raiſed reaſon reſpect ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſent ſerved ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir Robert Walpole ſmall ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtory Strawberry-hill ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe ſurpriſe taſte theſe thing thoſe tion told uſed viſit Voltaire Walpole's whig whoſe wife wiſhed write
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Page 95 - I know from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a school, having run in debt on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail, if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her. Her son had too much sentiment to have any feeling. A dead ass was more important to him than a living mother.
Page 24 - Newcastle had fallen into a mistake, to send for him, and read him a lecture. The duke was sent for once, and came when Mr. Pitt was confined to bed by the gout. There was, as usual, no fire in the room ; the day was very chilly, and the duke, as usual, afraid of catching cold. The duke...
Page 196 - ... gentlemen, his friends, they determined to pass the night in the same apartment; and if any noise or apparition disturbed them, to discharge their pistols at either ghost or sound. As spirits- know all things, they were probably aware of these preparations, and not one appeared. But, in the chamber just above, a dreadful rattling of chains was heard ; and the wife and children of the farmer ran to assist their lord. They threw themselves on their knees, begging that he would not visit that terrible...
Page 7 - Caroline fpoke of fhutting up St. James's Park, and converting it into a noble garden for the palace of that name. She afked my father* what it might probably coft ; who replied,
Page 76 - Grub-street thing from the garret. The author, in sheer ignorance, not humour, discoursing of the difficulty of some pursuit, said, that even if a man had as many lives as a cat, nay, as many lives as one Plutarch is said to have had, he could not accomplish it.
Page xxxv - Deffand ; and which ease and attention had rendered so fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa ; the tea-kettle, stand, and heater, were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient porcelain of Japan, of a fine white, embossed with large leaves.
Page 2 - Pfttriottfm of Wilkes. Depend upon it, my dear Sir, that "Wilkes was in the pay of France, during the Wilkes and liberty days. Calling one day on the French minifter, I obferved a book on his table, with Wilkes's name in the firft leaf.
Page 96 - Plato is indeed the philofopher of imagination— but is not this faying that he is no philofopher at all ? I have been told that Rolt, who afterwards wrote many books, was in Dublin when that poem appeared.
Page 54 - Atheism I dislike. It is gloomy, uncomfortable ; and, in my eye, unnatural and irrational. It certainly requires more credulity to believe that there is no God, than to believe that there is.
Page 198 - The rogue confessed all his tricks; and was pardoned on paying the arrears due for five years, at the old rent of the land.