Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1847 - Beauty, Personal |
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... Horace Walpole's account of Madame de Sévigné's house at Livry . - Character of her writings by Sir James Mackintosh . - Attempt to form their true estimate . 300 MEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . SOCIAL MORALITY . CONTENTS . ix.
... Horace Walpole's account of Madame de Sévigné's house at Livry . - Character of her writings by Sir James Mackintosh . - Attempt to form their true estimate . 300 MEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . SOCIAL MORALITY . CONTENTS . ix.
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... Horace Walpole , as an old beau , fair com- plexioned , and in a white wig , gallanting the ladies about in public . The Duchess was the original Polly in the Beggars ' Opera , and so much the rage in that character , that it was ...
... Horace Walpole , as an old beau , fair com- plexioned , and in a white wig , gallanting the ladies about in public . The Duchess was the original Polly in the Beggars ' Opera , and so much the rage in that character , that it was ...
Page 183
... Horace Walpole , with his fastidious celibacy ( or whatever epithet might apply to it ) , left no children , merry or sad . But we now come to the first unhappy marriage of this sort , known to have existed , and against which Horace ...
... Horace Walpole , with his fastidious celibacy ( or whatever epithet might apply to it ) , left no children , merry or sad . But we now come to the first unhappy marriage of this sort , known to have existed , and against which Horace ...
Page 184
... Horace Walpole was in despair about it , appears to have been the marriage of WILLIAM O'Brien , * " General Biographical Dictionary . " Vol . xiv . p . 427 . omedian ( styled in the Peerages , William O'Brien , 184 DUCHESS OF ST ...
... Horace Walpole was in despair about it , appears to have been the marriage of WILLIAM O'Brien , * " General Biographical Dictionary . " Vol . xiv . p . 427 . omedian ( styled in the Peerages , William O'Brien , 184 DUCHESS OF ST ...
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... Horace Walpole , is shocked at his nephew marrying an actress who brought him good children , and at Lady Susan Fox's running away with William O'Brien , " by nature formed to please . " Why , the Foxes themselves , nobly as they have ...
... Horace Walpole , is shocked at his nephew marrying an actress who brought him good children , and at Lady Susan Fox's running away with William O'Brien , " by nature formed to please . " Why , the Foxes themselves , nobly as they have ...
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