 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 728 pages
...Correspondence with the truly amiable Mrs. Montague. Yours, &c. AN OL» WHIG. " Houghton, March 25, 1761. " Here I am at Houghton ! and alone ! In this spot,...where (except two hours last month) I have not been for sixteen years ! Think, what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray and forty Church-yards could not... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...— Good night. Yours ever. THE HON. HORACE WALPOLE TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. Houghton, March 25, 1761. HERE I am at Houghton, and alone ! in this spot, where...many; nay, I know one must feel them with greater indiflerence than I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last... | |
 | John Chambers - Norfolk (England) - 1829 - 654 pages
...I am at tlonghton! and alone! In this ipot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been for sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections!...one must feel them with greater indifference than 1 feel I possess to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for Ihe last lime of my lite, though not... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 698 pages
...I am at Honghton! and alonel tn thin spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been for sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections!...Church-yards could not furnish so many; nay, I know one most feel them with greater indifference than I feel 1 possess to put them into vi i •!•„ Here... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 448 pages
...himself than he was habitually accustomed to display. " Here am I," says he in one of his letters, " at Houghton ! and alone ; in this spot where, except...into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time in my life, though not for the last time ; every clock that strikes, tells me that I am one hour nearer... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 428 pages
...himself than he was habitually accustomed to display. " Here am I," says he in one of his letters, " at Houghton ! and alone ; in this spot where, except...into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time in my life, though not for the last time; every clock that strikes, tells me that I am one hour nearer... | |
 | James Grigor - Norfolk (England) - 1841 - 504 pages
...applicable to its present condition. In one of them, addressed to Mr. Montague in 1761, he exclaims — "Here I am at Houghton ! and alone ! in this spot,...where (except two hours last month) I have not been for sixteen years ! Think what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray and forty churchyards could not furnish... | |
 | James Grigor - Norfolk (England) - 1841 - 500 pages
...applicable to its present condition. In one of them, addressed to Mr. Montague in 1761, he exclaims — "Here I am at Houghton ! and alone ! in this spot,...where (except two hours last month) I have not been for sixteen years ! Think what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray and forty churchyards could not furnish... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...there, are pathetically expressed : — ' Here I am again at Houghton,' he writes in March, 1761, ' and alone ; in this spot where (except two hours last...in sixteen years. Think what a crowd of reflections ! . . . Here I am probably for the last time of my life : every clock that strikes, tells me I am an... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - Fiction - 1861 - 522 pages
...Nicholls's fortune might help to liquidate. "Here I am again at Houghton," he writes in March, 1761, " and alone; in this spot where (except two hours last...sixteen years. Think what a crowd of reflections! . . . Here I am probably for the last time of my life: every clock that strikes, tells me I am an hour... | |
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HERE I am at Houghton, and alone ! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years ! Think what a crowd of reflections... 
