Eighteenth Century Letters, Volume 2Reginald Brimley Johnson A.D. Innes & Company, 1898 |
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acquaintance affection answer ASHBOURNE attention Baretti Battle of Tours believe BENNET LANGTON BLACKHEATH bless Boswell character Coldstream Guards common compliments Courts DEAR BOY DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR DEAREST MADAM death desire Dunvegan duty easily elegant endeavour Eugenia Stanhope expect favour flatter give glad good-breeding Graces happy hear heart honour hope Horace Walpole JAMES MACPHERSON JOHNSON journey July 28 justly kind ladies language laugh learned least letter Lichfield live LONDON Lord Chesterfield manners marriage matter merit mind Miss moral nature neglect never night observation once opinion passion perhaps pleased pleasure pray reason received remember ridicule Sainte-Beuve SAMUEL RICHARDSON sense Skie soon speak Streatham suppose sure talk tell tender things thought Thrale tion told truth vanity virtue wish woman women word write wrote young
Popular passages
Page 87 - When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 86 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 99 - This exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
Page 86 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 49 - I sat for my picture, and walked a considerable way with little inconvenience. In the afternoon and evening I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has...
Page 46 - ... my part of the calamity. No death since that of my wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember, that we "are in the hands of Him who knows when to give and when to take away ; who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble. Call upon him in this great revolution of life, and call with confidence. You will then find comfort for the past, and support for the future.
Page 78 - His wit and his folly, his acuteness and maliciousness, his merriment and reasoning, are now over. Such another will not often be found among mankind.
Page 215 - Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum.
Page 88 - ... Providence has enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning', I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, ' My Lord, ' Your Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant,
Page xi - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?