Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, Volume 3L. C. Page, 1902 - Great Britain |
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... received yours I had written to Carlisle . I hope he will sometimes let me hear from him , and I shall in my next desire him not to let you be idle . Thank you for thinking of fixing some scheme of rotation at the club , for writing to ...
... received yours I had written to Carlisle . I hope he will sometimes let me hear from him , and I shall in my next desire him not to let you be idle . Thank you for thinking of fixing some scheme of rotation at the club , for writing to ...
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... received , and thank you for it very heartily . You must know I can spend no hours more agree- ably than those I pass with you and Williams , and it is a pleasure to me to remember those that are passed . You send me a melancholy ...
... received , and thank you for it very heartily . You must know I can spend no hours more agree- ably than those I pass with you and Williams , and it is a pleasure to me to remember those that are passed . You send me a melancholy ...
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... received from you on this occasion . The more I know the world , the more I perceive the difficulty of finding a person who resembles you , and I consider myself the happiest of mortals , solely from the happiness I have had in forming ...
... received from you on this occasion . The more I know the world , the more I perceive the difficulty of finding a person who resembles you , and I consider myself the happiest of mortals , solely from the happiness I have had in forming ...
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... received real marks of his friendship for you during your illness . We have here a Duc d'Havre and a M. Montpelier ; the former has Flemish relations here , and is himself a grandee , and a bore . He is nephew to the Prince of Croy ...
... received real marks of his friendship for you during your illness . We have here a Duc d'Havre and a M. Montpelier ; the former has Flemish relations here , and is himself a grandee , and a bore . He is nephew to the Prince of Croy ...
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... received here . The housekeeper showed me and told me everything , and even was so kind as to fetch Rosette a basin of water , which completed the conquest of my heart . Wine I was offered , and fruit was heaped on me , and even dinner ...
... received here . The housekeeper showed me and told me everything , and even was so kind as to fetch Rosette a basin of water , which completed the conquest of my heart . Wine I was offered , and fruit was heaped on me , and even dinner ...
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Page 215 - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Page 194 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 91 - On the evening, when the symptoms of death came on, he said, ' I shall die ; but it will not be your fault.' When lord and lady Valentia came to see his lordship, he gave them his solemn benediction, and said, ' Be good, be virtuous, my lord ; you must come to this.
Page 363 - Men some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men some to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Page 269 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
Page 258 - Alas! Mrs. Miller is returned a beauty, a genius, a Sappho, a tenth Muse, as romantic as Mademoiselle Scuderi, and as sophisticated as Mrs. Vesey. The Captain's fingers are loaded with cameos, his tongue runs over with virtu, and that both may contribute to the improvement of their own country, they have introduced bouts-rimes as a new discovery.
Page 62 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
Page 90 - It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life ;' yet he was easily persuaded for the satisfaction of others to do or take anything thought proper for him.
Page 197 - Upon the whole the piece was not very full of events. The doctor, to all appearance, was rendered perfectly stupid from despair. His hat was flapped all round, and pulled over his eyes, which were never directed to any object around, nor even raised, except now and then lifted up in the course of his prayers. He came in a coach, and a very heavy shower of rain fell just upon his entering the cart, and another just at his putting on his nightcap.
Page 91 - Thus he continued giving his dying benedictions to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening, and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when, between seven and eight o'clock, he expired, almost without a groan.