 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...doing us a great kindness indeed ! You see old Wortley Montagu* is dead at last at 83. It was not mere Avarice and its companion Abstinence, that kept him...alive so long. He every day drank (I think it was) half a pint of Tokay, which he imported himself from Hungary in greater quantity than he could use,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...reckoned hostile to the duke of Newcastle. Then talking of regiments going abroad, he said, * * * * "With regard to your reserve to me, I can easily believe...you of any reserve to me : I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you that I don't like to have any body think that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...Qualification Bill, in consequence of which Waipole was absent from the House of Commons upon that occasion. " I don't suspect you of any reserve to me: I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you, that I don't like to have anybody think, that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1833 - 436 pages
...Qualification Bill, in consequence of which Walpole was absent from the House of Commons upon that occasion. " I don't suspect you of any reserve to me : I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you, that I don't like] to have anybody think, that I would not do whatever... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 pages
...nakedness barely shaded with harateen till it cracks. Here the Miser hoards health at 83. It was not mere Avarice and its companion Abstinence, that kept him...alive so long. He every day drank (I think it was) half a pint of Tokay, which he imported himself from Hungary in greater quantity than he could use,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...reckoned hostile to the duke of Newcastle. Then talking of regiments going abroad, he said, * * * * With regard to your reserve to me, I can easily believe...you of any reserve to me: I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you that I don't like to have any body think that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...reckoned hostile to the duke of Newcastle. Then talking of regiments going abroad, he said, * * * * With regard to your reserve to me, I can easily believe...you of any reserve to me: I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you that I don't like to have any body think that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...reckoned hostile to the Duke of Newcastle. Then talking of regiments going abroad, he said, * * * * With regard to your reserve to me, I can easily believe...you of any reserve to me : I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you, that I don't like to have anybody think that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...Meleager. Adieu! this is positively my last. TO THE HON. HS CONWAY. Monday, five o'elock, Feb. 1761. With regard to your reserve to me, I can easily believe...you of any reserve to me: I only mention it now for an occasion of telling you. that I don't like to have any body think that I would not do whatever you... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...of no consequence. * " You see old Wortley Montagu is dead at last, at eighty.three. It was not mere avarice and its companion abstinence, that kept him...himself from Hungary in greater quantity than he could use, and sold the overplus for any price he chose to set upon it . He has left better than half a million... | |
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I think it was, half-a-pint of tokay, which he imported himself from Hungary in greater quantity than he could use, and sold the overplus for any price he chose to set upon it. He has left better than half a million of money. 
