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Page 148
... Lord MELCOMBE informed me , that when he and Voltaire were on a vifit to his Lord- ship at Eaftbury , the English poet was far fuperior to the French , in the variety and the novelty of his bon mots and repartees ; and Lord Melcombe was ...
... Lord MELCOMBE informed me , that when he and Voltaire were on a vifit to his Lord- ship at Eaftbury , the English poet was far fuperior to the French , in the variety and the novelty of his bon mots and repartees ; and Lord Melcombe was ...
Page 257
... Lord H. for whom it was defigned , whatever his morals might be , had yet confiderable abilities , though marred indeed by affectation . Some of his fpeeches in parliament were much beyond florid impotence . They were , it is true , in ...
... Lord H. for whom it was defigned , whatever his morals might be , had yet confiderable abilities , though marred indeed by affectation . Some of his fpeeches in parliament were much beyond florid impotence . They were , it is true , in ...
Page 258
... Lord H. by these two lines in his imi- tation of the 1ft Sat. of Horace's fecond book , The lines are weak , another's pleas'd to say , Lord Fanny Spins a thousand such a day . * After her quarrel with Mr. Pope , which Lord Peter ...
... Lord H. by these two lines in his imi- tation of the 1ft Sat. of Horace's fecond book , The lines are weak , another's pleas'd to say , Lord Fanny Spins a thousand such a day . * After her quarrel with Mr. Pope , which Lord Peter ...
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