The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 6 |
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Absentee Tax Adieu admire America amusement answer Arlington Street believe bootikins called certainly Charles Fox COUNTESS OF OSSORY CUNNINGHAM dear lord dear Sir doubt Duchess Duchess of Kingston Duke Earl England expect Garrick George Selwyn give Gloucester gout Gray Gray's Grosvenor Square happy hear heard honour hope HORACE WALPOLE humble servant Ireland King Lady Mary Ladyship late laugh least letter live London Lord Chatham Lord Holland Lord North Lord Ossory lordship Madame du Deffand Majesty Majesty's married mind Ministers nephew never night obliged Paris Parliament perhaps person poem Pray present Princess printed Queen received ROCKINGHAM Royal Highness sent short SIR HORACE MANN sorry Stonhewer Strawberry Hill suppose sure talk taste tell thing thought to-morrow told town truth verses WALPOLE WILLIAM MASON wish write written
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Page 405 - I have often said that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel ; and sensibility has not only occasion to suffer for others, but is sure of its own portion too.
Page 437 - Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Page 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 fat hand, and are crowned by it with myrtle, with — I don't know what.
Page 153 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's...
Page 159 - The Americans at least have acted like men, gone to the bottom at once, and set the whole upon the whole. Our conduct has been that of pert children : we have thrown a pebble at a mastiff, and are surprised it was not frightened.
Page 171 - Yes, on my faith! There are bouts-rimes on a buttered muffin, made by her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland; receipts to make them by Corydon the venerable, alias George Pitt; others very pretty, by Lord Palmerston; some by Lord Carlisle; many by Mrs. Miller herself, that have no fault but wanting metre ; and immortality promised to her without end or measure.
Page 189 - The war with our colonies, which is now declared, is a proof how much influence jargon has on human actions. A war on our own trade is popular ! Both Houses are as eager for it as they were for conquering the Indies — which acquits them a little of rapine, when they are as glad of what will impoverish them as of what they fancied was to enrich them — so like are the great vulgar, and the small.
Page 57 - We have no news public or private ; but there is an ostrich-egg laid in America, where the Bostonians have canted three hundred chests of tea into the ocean, for they will not drink tea with our Parliament. My understanding is so narrow, and was...
Page 29 - ... Garrick has at least the chief hand in it. I never saw anybody in a greater fidget, nor more vain when he returned, for he went to the play-house at half an hour after five, and we sat waiting for him till ten, when he was to act a speech in Cato...
Page 408 - It was circulated with profusion, and, for writing it, the Common Council of London voted the Doctor their thanks, and presented him with the freedom of the city in a gold box.