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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... things succeed after your grace's will and pleasure , nor less procuring his glory and honour ; then , I suppose your grace did never thing more acceptable unto him since your first govern- ance of this your realm . And , moreover ...
... things succeed after your grace's will and pleasure , nor less procuring his glory and honour ; then , I suppose your grace did never thing more acceptable unto him since your first govern- ance of this your realm . And , moreover ...
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... thing in this world ; for what joy can be greater upon earth than to have the company of her who is dearest to me , knowing likewise that she does the same on her part , the thought of which gives me the greatest pleasure . Judge what ...
... thing in this world ; for what joy can be greater upon earth than to have the company of her who is dearest to me , knowing likewise that she does the same on her part , the thought of which gives me the greatest pleasure . Judge what ...
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... thing , when you be most merry ; but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility , and biting words to any man ... things tell no untruth , no , not in trifles . The custom of it is naughty , and let it not satisfy you , that , for a ...
... thing , when you be most merry ; but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility , and biting words to any man ... things tell no untruth , no , not in trifles . The custom of it is naughty , and let it not satisfy you , that , for a ...
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... thing to do ill that good may come of it ! Nevertheless , I yet hope your better feelings may return , and , in the meantime , I promise to give you the first place in my prayers , that Esau's hands may not defile the blessing of Jacob ...
... thing to do ill that good may come of it ! Nevertheless , I yet hope your better feelings may return , and , in the meantime , I promise to give you the first place in my prayers , that Esau's hands may not defile the blessing of Jacob ...
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... thing pleased me better than the seeing the enemey flying with a Sotherly wynd to the Northwards . God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma , for with the Grace of God , yf we live , I doubt it not , but ere it be long so to ...
... thing pleased me better than the seeing the enemey flying with a Sotherly wynd to the Northwards . God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma , for with the Grace of God , yf we live , I doubt it not , but ere it be long so to ...
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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.