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Page 18 - The King seems resolved to bring all things back to their original principles, and to stop the torrent of corruption and laziness. — He rises every morning at six to do business, — rides out at eight to a minute, — returns at nine to give himself up to his people.
Page 36 - Whoever was the author, he appears to be a monster of impiety and lewdness — yet such is the malignity of the scribblers, some have given them to your friend Hall ; and others, which is still more impossible, to yourself; tho' the first Ode has the insolence to place you both in a mean and a ridiculous light.
Page 4 - Carrickfergus, loaded with kindnesses, &c. — a most rueful and tedious journey had we all, in March, to Carrickfergus, where we arrived in six or seven days...
Page 9 - L. — we will be as merry, and as innocent as our first parents in Paradise, before the arch fiend entered that undescribable scene.
Page 136 - I can never see or talk to this incomparable woman without bursting into tears — I have a thousand obligations to her, and I owe her more than her whole sex, if not all the world put together. — She has a delicacy...
Page 5 - My dear Laurey, I never can be yours, for I verily believe I have not long to live! but I have left you every shilling of my fortune.
Page 52 - It has too much sentiment in it, (at least for me) the speeches too long, and savour too much of preaching— this may be a second reason, it is not to my taste...
Page 114 - Milan being laid under water by continual rains — but lam very happy, and have found my way into a dozen houses already — Tomorrow I am to be presented to the King, and when that ceremony is over, I shall have my hands full of engagements. — No English here but Sir James Macdonald who meets with much respect, and Mr. Ogilby. We are all together, and shall depart in peace together — My kind services to all — pray forward the inclosed — Yours most truly, L.
Page 106 - Dulcinea in my head; it harmonises the soul; and in these cases I first endeavour to make the lady believe so, or rather, I begin first to make myself believe that I am in love ; but I carry on my affairs quite in the French way, sentimentally : ' L'amour,' say they, ' n'est rien sans sentiment.' Now, notwithstanding they make such a pother about the word, they have no precise idea annexed to it. And so much for that same subject called love.
Page 9 - Yes! I will steal from the world, and not a babbling tongue shall tell where I am — Echo shall not so much as whisper my hiding-place — suffer thy imagination to paint it as a little sun-gilt cottage, on the side of a romantic hill — dost thou think I will leave love and friendship behind me?