Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... Letters of Horace Walpole , Earl of Oxford , to Sir Horace Mann , British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany . Now first published from the Originals in the Possession of the Earl of WALDGRAVE . Edited by LORD DOVER . 2 vols . 8vo . London ...
... Letters of Horace Walpole , Earl of Oxford , to Sir Horace Mann , British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany . Now first published from the Originals in the Possession of the Earl of WALDGRAVE . Edited by LORD DOVER . 2 vols . 8vo . London ...
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... letters , with copious notes , to be published after his decease ; at rank , and never for a moment forget that he was an Honorable ; at the practice of entail , and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the ...
... letters , with copious notes , to be published after his decease ; at rank , and never for a moment forget that he was an Honorable ; at the practice of entail , and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the ...
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... not in danger , and while rebels were not in being , he really believed that he held the doctrines which he professed . To go no further than the letters now before us , he is perpetually boasting to his friend Mann HORACE WALPOLE . 9.
... not in danger , and while rebels were not in being , he really believed that he held the doctrines which he professed . To go no further than the letters now before us , he is perpetually boasting to his friend Mann HORACE WALPOLE . 9.
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... letters . Not that he was in- different to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his heart on incompatible ...
... letters . Not that he was in- different to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his heart on incompatible ...
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... letters , the affected superciliousness and apathy of a man of ton . His judgment of literature , of contemporary literature especially , was altogether perverted by his aristocratical feelings . No writer surely was ever guilty of so ...
... letters , the affected superciliousness and apathy of a man of ton . His judgment of literature , of contemporary literature especially , was altogether perverted by his aristocratical feelings . No writer surely was ever guilty of so ...
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Page 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
Page 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
Page 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
Page 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
Page 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
Page 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
Page 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
Page 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...