Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Harper and brothers, 1873 - 303 pages |
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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 . 250 MEN , WOMEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . SOCIAL VI CONTENTS .
... 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 . 250 MEN , WOMEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . SOCIAL VI CONTENTS .
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... Horace Walpole , as an old beau , fair complexioned , 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 probably ...
... Horace Walpole , as an old beau , fair complexioned , 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 probably ...
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... 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 ...
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... Horace Walpole would but leave other people's virtues alone , and not take up a baton sinister to lay it over the shoulders of the untitled ? Horace's own friends and relations , including his father and mother , were tattled of in ...
... Horace Walpole would but leave other people's virtues alone , and not take up a baton sinister to lay it over the shoulders of the untitled ? Horace's own friends and relations , including his father and mother , were tattled of in ...
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... Horace Walpole , in a sneer which now recoils on his memory , " will be mightily well born . " They are better than that ; -they are mightily well - educated ; -- that is to say , their children are brought up to be as accomplished and ...
... Horace Walpole , in a sneer which now recoils on his memory , " will be mightily well born . " They are better than that ; -they are mightily well - educated ; -- that is to say , their children are brought up to be as accomplished and ...
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