Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and others]. With notes now first added, Volume 2 |
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... wish to recommend myself to you by more essential merits - and if I can only make you laugh , it will be very apt to make me as much concerned as I was yesterday . For people to whose approbation I am indifferent , I don't care whether ...
... wish to recommend myself to you by more essential merits - and if I can only make you laugh , it will be very apt to make me as much concerned as I was yesterday . For people to whose approbation I am indifferent , I don't care whether ...
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... wish there were such a neutral kind of beings in England as abbés , that one might have an excuse for not growing military mad , when one has turned the heroic corner of one's age . I am ashamed of being a young rake , when my seniors ...
... wish there were such a neutral kind of beings in England as abbés , that one might have an excuse for not growing military mad , when one has turned the heroic corner of one's age . I am ashamed of being a young rake , when my seniors ...
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... wish you was in camp - never will I pity you again . How did you complain when you was in Scotland , Ireland , Flanders , and I don't know where , that you could never enjoy Park - place ! Now you have a whole summer to yourself , and ...
... wish you was in camp - never will I pity you again . How did you complain when you was in Scotland , Ireland , Flanders , and I don't know where , that you could never enjoy Park - place ! Now you have a whole summer to yourself , and ...
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... wish you joy of all your purchases ; why , you sound as rich as if you had had the gout these ten years . I beg their par- don ; but , just at present , I am very glad not to be near the vivacity of either Missy or Peter . I agree with ...
... wish you joy of all your purchases ; why , you sound as rich as if you had had the gout these ten years . I beg their par- don ; but , just at present , I am very glad not to be near the vivacity of either Missy or Peter . I agree with ...
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... wish you could have seen my neighbour's con- fusion . She certainly did not grow paler than ordinary . — I laugh now while I repeat it to you . I have told Mr. Bentley the great honour you have done him , my Lord . He is happy the ...
... wish you could have seen my neighbour's con- fusion . She certainly did not grow paler than ordinary . — I laugh now while I repeat it to you . I have told Mr. Bentley the great honour you have done him , my Lord . He is happy the ...
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Page 48 - I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps ; the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers of silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line of...
Page 262 - I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it...
Page 262 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from . the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 90 - I dined with your secretary yesterday ; there were Garrick and a young Mr. Burke, who wrote a book in the style of Lord Bolingbroke, that was much admired.' He is a sensible man, but has not worn off his authorism yet, and thinks there is nothing so charming as writers, and to be one. He will know better one of these days.
Page 8 - ... played, and the Magdalens sung a hymn in parts; you cannot imagine how well. The chapel was dressed with orange and myrtle, and there wanted nothing but a little incense, to drive away the devil — or to invite him. Prayers then began, psalms, and a sermon; the latter by a young clergyman, one Dodd; who contributed to the Popish idea one had imbibed, by haranguing entirely in the French style, and very eloquently and touchingly. He...
Page 49 - There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels, here and there with priests saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy of ten years old; but the heralds were not very accurate, and I walked with George Grenville, taller and older, to keep me in countenance.
Page 372 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.
Page 59 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Page 210 - If one could honour her more than one did before, it would be to see with what religion she keeps up the old dwelling and customs, as well as old servants, who you may imagine do not love her less than other people do. The garden is just as sir John Germain brought it from Holland; pyramidal yews, treillages, and square cradle walks with windows clipped in them.
Page 265 - To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend the wonderful of old stories with the natural of modern nove,ls.