Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893 - 591 páginas |
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... observation and censure . ' Political letters , except in very few instances , will be conspicuous by their absence . The chief obstacle to their introduction here has been the want of sufficient interest in any one or two such letters ...
... observation and censure . ' Political letters , except in very few instances , will be conspicuous by their absence . The chief obstacle to their introduction here has been the want of sufficient interest in any one or two such letters ...
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... observation and censure . ' Political letters , except in very few instances , will be conspicuous by their absence . The chief obstacle to their introduction here has been the want of sufficient interest in any one or two such letters ...
... observation and censure . ' Political letters , except in very few instances , will be conspicuous by their absence . The chief obstacle to their introduction here has been the want of sufficient interest in any one or two such letters ...
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... observe her Majesty's commandment , written to me by your Lordship , in restraining all resort to this place ; neither does she see , nor is seen to any more than to her own people , and such as I appoint to attend . She has not come ...
... observe her Majesty's commandment , written to me by your Lordship , in restraining all resort to this place ; neither does she see , nor is seen to any more than to her own people , and such as I appoint to attend . She has not come ...
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... observe them . The divine blessing must effectuate their wit , which authors all the happiness we receive . It is that mercy that has hitherto protected me , and , if I may seem useful in his wisdom , will con- tinue me , amongst other ...
... observe them . The divine blessing must effectuate their wit , which authors all the happiness we receive . It is that mercy that has hitherto protected me , and , if I may seem useful in his wisdom , will con- tinue me , amongst other ...
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... observation ; great literary skill ; an eager , restless , curious spirit ; some humour and much wit ; and a catholicity of sympathy very unusual with the writers of his age - are his chief claims to distinction . If the following ...
... observation ; great literary skill ; an eager , restless , curious spirit ; some humour and much wit ; and a catholicity of sympathy very unusual with the writers of his age - are his chief claims to distinction . If the following ...
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acquainted admiration affection affectionate Alexander Pope Anne Boleyn answer beauty believe Charles Countess of Bute Dean Swift dear death desire Duke Earl endeavour England English esteem father favour fortune France French friendship give grace hand happy hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole HORATIO NELSON humble servant James Howel John JOHN DRYDEN John Evelyn JONATHAN SWIFT Joseph Addison kind King Lady leave live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lordship Madam Majesty Majesty's manner matter mean mind nature never obliged opinion Parliament passion person pleased pleasure poems poet poor Pope pray present Queen reason received Richard Steele Samuel Johnson sent sure tell thank thee thing thought tion told true truth unto virtue William wish word write written young
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Página 230 - 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...
Página 35 - I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times.
Página 315 - Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kindhearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and handsome. He has a pair of very good eyes in his head, which not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and difficult purposes of a senator, he has a third also, which he wore suspended by a ribband from his buttonhole. The boys halloo'd, the dogs barked, Puss scampered;...
Página 231 - 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, 'SAM JOHNSON.
Página 290 - I have written a hundred letters to different friends in your country, and never received an answer from any of them. I do not know how to account for this, or why they are unwilling to keep up for me those regards which I must ever retain for them.
Página 153 - Lordship the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most obliged humble servant JON.
Página 193 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened.
Página 182 - The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do.
Página 509 - ... delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Psal. cxxv. Qui confidant. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.
Página 478 - He ordered me to be presented to him at a ball ; and after some sayings peculiarly pleasing from royal lips, as to my own attempts, he talked to me of you and your immortalities : he preferred you to every bard past and present, and asked which of your works pleased me most. It was a difficult question. I answered, I thought the Lay.