Letters of Horace Walpole, Volumen2G. P. Putnam, 1890 |
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Adieu admire agreeable amuse ARLINGTON STREET arrived believe brother called Chancellor Charles Townshend charming Châtelet Clairon Clive coach Comte Conway Court daughter dear Sir death doubt dressed Duc d'Aiguillon Duc de Choiseul Duchess Duchess of Northumberland Duke England English everything fashion France French Garrick GEORGE MONTAGU gout grace happened hear Hertford honour hope humour King King's Lady laugh least letter live Lord Chatham Lord Clive Louis Louis XV Madame du Barri Madame du Deffand Madame Geoffrin Majesty married Minister Ministry mistress Monsieur never night one's Paris Parliament Pitt pleased politics poor Pope present Prince Princess Queen received reign Royal seen sent short SIR HORACE MANN STRAWBERRY HILL supper suppose sure talk taste tell thither thought thousand tion to-morrow told town Versailles Walpole week Wilkes wish write
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Página 311 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 171 - They hold a Parnassus fair every Thursday, give out rhymes and themes, and all the flux of quality at Bath contend for the prizes. A Roman vase dressed with pink ribbons and myrtles receives the poetry, which is drawn out every festival; six judges of these Olympic games retire and select the brightest compositions, which the respective successful acknowledge, kneel to Mrs Calliope Miller, kiss her fair hand, and are crowned by it with myrtle, with — I don't know what.
Página 34 - Mais si vous vous obstinez à rejeter mon secours, attendez-vous que je ne le dirai à personne. Si vous persistez à vous creuser l'esprit pour trouver de nouveaux malheurs, choisissez-les tels que vous voudrez ; je suis roi, je puis vous en procurer au gré de vos souhaits ; et, ce qui sûrement...
Página 311 - I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 66 - His style of argument was neither trite nor vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water. And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison.
Página 75 - Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors, and I see has given a foolish account of all he could pick up from me about king Theodore. He then took an antipathy to me on Rousseau's account, abused me in the newspapers, and exhorted Rousseau to do so too : but as he came to see me no more, I forgave all the rest. I see he now is a little sick of Rousseau himself, but I hope it will not cure him of his anger to me.
Página 87 - This is a bad summer! as if we ever had any other. The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. We ruin ourselves with inviting over foreign trees, and making our houses clamber up hills to look at prospects.
Página 38 - ... to be her sole end of drawing a concourse to her ; for she insists on scolding those she inveigles to her. She has little taste and less knowledge, but protects artisans and authors, and courts a few people to have the credit of serving her dependents. She was bred under the famous madame Tencin, who advised her never to refuse any man ; for, said her mistress, though nine in ten should not care a farthing for you, the tenth may live to be an useful friend.
Página 170 - That could they now prepare an oglio From best receipt of book in folio Ever so fine, for all their puffing, I should prefer a butter'd muffin ; A muffin Jove himself might feast on, If eat with Miller at Bath Easton.
Página 74 - Pray read the new account of Corsica. What relates to Paoli will amuse you much. There is a deal about the island and its divisions that one does not care a straw for. The author, Boswell, is a strange being, and, like * * * *, has a rage of knowing any body that ever was talked of.