The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1781-1783Clarendon Press, 1904 |
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Adieu Admiral answer asked believe Berkeley Square called certainly Conway COUNTESS OF UPPER court daughter dear Sir doubt Duane Duchess Duke of Portland Duke of Richmond EARL HARCOURT expect favour fleet French Friday George Selwyn Gibraltar give gout hear heard Henry HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY Hertford honour hope Horace Walpole House of Commons Ireland Jephson John July King Lady Ladyship late least letter Lord Cornwallis Lord George Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Lord's Lordship Lucas Madam ministers Minorca morning Morrice Mozzi nephew never obliged opinion Parliament peace perhaps poems politics present Prince printed received ROBERT JEPHSON seen sent servant Sir Horace Mann sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure t'other talk tell thought tion to-day to-morrow told town truth UPPER OSSORY Walpole week WILLIAM COLE WILLIAM MASON wish write yesterday
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Página 150 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
Página 308 - Sir, — I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to desire you will forthwith cause to be made out and transmitted to me for their Lordships...
Página 273 - Epic poetry is the art of being as long as possible in telling an uninteresting story ; and an epic poem is a mixture of history without truth, and of romance without imagination.
Página 159 - No, Sir," said the mercenary ; " I cannot write but for money; since I have dealt with the heathens, (the booksellers) I have no other inspiration. I knew they could not do without me, and I made them pay five guineas a sheet for my ' Rasselas ;" you must pay me if I write for you ; " and the five guineas per sheet no doubt was the price. But I do not know why he called the booksellers heathens, unless for their worshipping such an uncouth idol as he is : yet he has other motives than lucre, —prejudice,...
Página 328 - Bedlam actuated by attorneys ! I am perfectly ignorant of the state of the war abroad ; they say we are in no pain for Gibraltar : but I know that we are in a state of war at home that is shocking. I mean, from the enormous profusion of housebreakers, highwaymen, and footpads ; and, what is worse, from the savage barbarities of the two latter, who commit the most wanton cruelties. This evil is another fruit of the American war. Having no vent for the convicts that used to be transported to our late...
Página 166 - I dined on Monday with the Harcourts at Mrs. Montagu's new palace, and was much surprised. Instead of vagaries it is a noble simple edifice. When I came home, I recollected that though I had thought it so magnificent a house there was not a morsel of gilding, it is grand not tawdry, nor larded and embroidered and pomponned with shreds and remnants and clinquant like all the Harlequinades of Adam, which never let the eye repose a moment.
Página 244 - He already shines as greatly in Place as he did in Opposition, though infinitely more difficult a task. He is now as indefatigable as he was idle. He has perfect temper, and not only...
Página 294 - It is very entertaining that two or three great families should persuade themselves that they have an hereditary and exclusive right of giving us a head without a tongue...
Página 384 - Mrs. Siddons continues to be the mode, and to be modest and sensible. She declines great dinners, and says her business and the cares of her family take up her whole time. When Lord Carlisle carried her the tribute-money from Brooks's, he said she was not manieree enough. " I suppose she was grateful," said my niece, Lady Maria. Mrs. Siddons was desired to play 'Medea' and 'Lady Macbeth.' — "No," she replied, " she did not look on them as female characters.
Página 109 - By the tenth article of the capitulation, Lord Cornwallis demanded that the loyal Americans in his army should not be punished. This was flatly refused, and he has left them to be hanged. I doubt no vote of Parliament will be able to blanch such a — such a — I don't know what the word is for it; he must get his uncle the Archbishop to christen it; there is no name for it in any Pagan vocabulary. I suppose it will have a patent for being called Necessity. Well ! there ends another volume of the...