Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries: Including Numerous Original Letters, Chiefly from Strawberry Hill, Том 1Eliot Warburton H. Colburn, 1851 |
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... say , he has found in the author of these volumes . ' Panegyric , " however , cannot be indiscriminately applied in estimating the character of Horace Walpole . According to his own showing , he lived for himself alone ; no sentimental ...
... say , he has found in the author of these volumes . ' Panegyric , " however , cannot be indiscriminately applied in estimating the character of Horace Walpole . According to his own showing , he lived for himself alone ; no sentimental ...
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... says , " I wished for fame . not examining whether I was capable of attaining it , nor considering in what light fame was desirable . There are two parts of honest fame ; that attendant on the truly great , and that better sort which is ...
... says , " I wished for fame . not examining whether I was capable of attaining it , nor considering in what light fame was desirable . There are two parts of honest fame ; that attendant on the truly great , and that better sort which is ...
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... say , in one of the boroughs , for the Walpoles possessed three . He was what was then called " a good husband , " - improved his estates , economised his expenditure , and brought up a family of nineteen children . But he arrived at no ...
... say , in one of the boroughs , for the Walpoles possessed three . He was what was then called " a good husband , " - improved his estates , economised his expenditure , and brought up a family of nineteen children . But he arrived at no ...
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... say , that when the hand- some Colonel Churchill returned to England , after having gained distinction by his military services abroad , he powerfully ingratiated himself with the leading courtiers of both sexes . Among these was the ...
... say , that when the hand- some Colonel Churchill returned to England , after having gained distinction by his military services abroad , he powerfully ingratiated himself with the leading courtiers of both sexes . Among these was the ...
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... says , " there are storms in the air , but I doubt not they will soon be blown over . " * Perhaps he was scarcely justified in being so sanguine , but just at this time the acquisition of two German provinces , Bremen and Verden , which ...
... says , " there are storms in the air , but I doubt not they will soon be blown over . " * Perhaps he was scarcely justified in being so sanguine , but just at this time the acquisition of two German provinces , Bremen and Verden , which ...
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Стр. 65 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Стр. 16 - Thiers has enjoyed facilities beyond the reach of every other biographer of Napoleon for procuring, from exclusive and authentic sources, the choicest materials for his present work. As guardian to the archives of the state, he had access to diplomatic papers and other documents of the highest importance, hitherto known only to a privileged few, and the publication of which cannot fail to produce a great sensation.
Стр. 69 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Стр. 360 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : eyes have they, but they see not...
Стр. 260 - As, though the pride of Middleton and Bland, All boys may read and girls may understand! Then might I sing without the least offence, And all I sung should be the nation's sense,* Or teach the melancholy muse to mourn, Hang the sad verse on Carolina's urn, And hail her passage to the realms of rest. All parts performed, and all her children bless'd, So — satire is no more— I feel it die — No gazetteer more innocent than I, And let, a God's name!
Стр. 70 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
Стр. 9 - ... work, although its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history of this country. The Princesses of England, on the contrary, are themselves English, but their lives are nearly all connected with foreign nations. Their biographies, consequently, afford us a glimpse of the manners and customs of the chief European kingdoms, a circumstance which not only gives to the work the charm of variety, but which is likely to render it peculiarly useful to the...
Стр. 392 - Fore him who never dines at all. Your taste in architect, you know, Hath been admired by friend and foe ; But can your earthly domes compare With all my castles — in the air ? We're often taught, it doth behove us To think those greater who're above us...
Стр. 9 - ... romance and adventure that is highly pleasing, and renders the work at once an agreeable companion of the boudoir, and a valuable addition to the historical library. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The...
Стр. 9 - TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR. EDITED BY the Author of " SAM SLICK." 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d. " No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the mouth of the Inimitable ' Sam,' to make the old parent country recognize and appreciate her queer transatlantic progeny.