The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 2Bickers & son, 1880 |
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Adieu Admiral afterwards Arlington Street asked beauty believe Bentley Bishop Bolingbroke brother called castle Chancellor charming Chute Conway Countess court CUNNINGHAM daughter dead dear Sir death died DOVER Duchess Duke of Bedford Duke of Cumberland Duke of Newcastle Earl eldest England extremely father Florence France French GEORGE MONTAGU George Selwyn give going hear heard honour hundred King King's Lady Caroline Lady Mary late letter live Lord Bath Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Granville Lord Hartington Lord Hervey Lord Sandwich Lyttelton Madame Marquis married minister ministry Mirepoix Miss morning never night Orford Parliament Pelham Pitt Pope Pretender pretty Prince Princess received RICHARD BENTLEY secretary sent SIR HORACE MANN sister Strawberry Hill t'other talk tell thing Thomas thousand pounds told town Townshend Viscount WALPOLE Walpole's wife William WRIGHT write young
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Page 491 - Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in language, but in both the last : The power of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Page 203 - These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady Frances Arundel, and Lord and Lady Galway, who go this evening to an inn ten miles out of town, where they are to play at brag till five in the morning, and then come back — I suppose, to look for the bones of their husbands and families under the rubbish.
Page 87 - ... Chenevixes had tricked it out for themselves : up two pair of stairs is what they call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lame telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.
Page 86 - Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises: barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window: Richmond Hill and Ham Walks bound my prospect; but thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight.
Page 339 - ... two gloomy arches, you come to the hall and staircase, which it is impossible to describe to you, as it is the most particular and chief beauty of the castle. Imagine the walls covered with (I call it paper, but it is really paper painted in perspective to represent) Gothic fretwork: the lightest Gothic balustrade to the staircase, adorned with antelopes (our supporters) bearing shields ; lean windows fattened with rich saints in painted glass, and a vestibule open with three arches on the landing-place,...
Page 247 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 287 - I despatched a courier to White's for George Selwyn, who you know, loves nothing upon earth so well as a criminal, except the execution of him. It happened very luckily, that the drawer, who received my message, has very lately been robbed himself, and had the wound fresh in his memory. He stalked up into the club-room, stopped short, and with a hollow trembling voice said, " Mr. Selwyn! Mr. Walpole's compliments to you, and he has got a house-breaker for you...
Page 339 - The room on the ground-floor nearest to you is a bedchamber, hung with yellow paper and prints, framed in a new manner, invented by Lord Cardigan ; that is, with black and white borders printed.
Page 128 - The doctor was in bed, and swore he would not get up to marry the King, but that he had a brother over the way who perhaps would, and who did. The mother borrowed a pair of sheets, and they consummated at her house; and the next day they went to their own palace.
Page 39 - At the bar he behaved" like a soldier and a man ; in the intervals of form, with carelessness and humour. He pressed extremely to have his wife, his pretty Peggy,* with him in the Tower. Lady Cromartie only sees her husband through the grate, not choosing to be shut up with him, as she thinks she can serve him better by her intercession without : she is big with child and very handsome ; so are their daughters.