Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,Vicesimus Knox Charles Dilly., 1790 - 798 páginas |
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... pleasure and a happiness , beyond the power of adequate eftimation , to be able to fit down whenever he pleases , and enjoy , at his fire - fide , the converfation of Cicero and Pliny , of the noble Sydneys , of the lively Howel , of ...
... pleasure and a happiness , beyond the power of adequate eftimation , to be able to fit down whenever he pleases , and enjoy , at his fire - fide , the converfation of Cicero and Pliny , of the noble Sydneys , of the lively Howel , of ...
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... pleasure you to much wished to obtain , are circumftances which afford me a very common fatisfaction . They do fo not elepon his account , but yours , whom letem as highly deferving of every ad- age that fortune can bellow . Let me ...
... pleasure you to much wished to obtain , are circumftances which afford me a very common fatisfaction . They do fo not elepon his account , but yours , whom letem as highly deferving of every ad- age that fortune can bellow . Let me ...
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... pleasure of a nearer conference , let me take the advantage at leaft of this more diftant communication ; and which in most respects will anfwer the fame pur- pofe . There is one or two , however , I muft except as it can neither afford ...
... pleasure of a nearer conference , let me take the advantage at leaft of this more diftant communication ; and which in most respects will anfwer the fame pur- pofe . There is one or two , however , I muft except as it can neither afford ...
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... pleasure of a fingle walk with you would afford me more fatisfaction than all the advantages I can derive from my government . I at Rome , in oppofing the attempts of the Pompeian party to diveit Cæfar of his government in Gaul . At the ...
... pleasure of a fingle walk with you would afford me more fatisfaction than all the advantages I can derive from my government . I at Rome , in oppofing the attempts of the Pompeian party to diveit Cæfar of his government in Gaul . At the ...
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... had watch the province , yet you have fince fully evinced forgoing the fincerity of this promife . Accord- ingly was with great pleasure I obferved the fly impatience ingly 4.1 . Book I ELEGANT EPISTLES . Mr Pope to Lord Lansdown.
... had watch the province , yet you have fince fully evinced forgoing the fincerity of this promife . Accord- ingly was with great pleasure I obferved the fly impatience ingly 4.1 . Book I ELEGANT EPISTLES . Mr Pope to Lord Lansdown.
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 240 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Página 193 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. But let not your grace...
Página 194 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Página 337 - ... yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Página 468 - ... lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...
Página 474 - Now, sir,' continued Mr. Lintot, 'in return for the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdowne will be brought to the bar or not?' I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — 'That may be,' replied Mr. Lintot; 'but by G if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.
Página 294 - You writ me lately for a footman, and I ' think this bearer will fit you : I know he can run ' well, for he hath run away twice from me, but he ' knew the way back again ; yet, though he hath a ' running head as well as running heels (and who will ' expect a footman to be a stayed man ?) I would ' not part with him were I not to go post to the
Página 193 - ... enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Página 472 - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: 'Now, damn them! What if they should put it into the newspaper how you and I went together to Oxford?
Página 474 - Now, sir, (continued Mr. Lintot,) in return to the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdown will be brought to the bar or not?" I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — " That may be," replied Mr. Lintot, " but by G , if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.