The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 9 |
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Common terms and phrases
acquainted Adieu admire Ampthill amuse answer Aylesbury believe Berkeley Square Bishop brother called certainly Cliveden Conway COUNTESS OF OSSORY Damer daughter dear death died dined doubt Duchess Duchess of Gloucester Duke Earl expect father flatter France French George Selwyn give glad gone gout hear heard honour hope HORACE WALPOLE hyæna JOHN PINKERTON King Lady Ladyship late least letter live London Lord Ossory Lordship Madam Madame du Barry Madame du Deffand married MISS BERRYS MISS HANNAH morning National Assembly nephew never night obliged Orford Paris perhaps persons poor present pretend Prince Princess printed Queen received Richmond royal seen sent servant sorry Strawberry Hill suppose sure talk tell thank thought thousand to-day told town Twickenham verses Waldegrave Walpole Walpole's week whole wish write yesterday
Popular passages
Page 268 - France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Page 30 - The Princess, Lady Barrymore, and the rest of us, played three pools at commerce till ten. I am afraid I was tired and gaped. While we were at the dairy, the Princess insisted on my making some verses on Gunnersbury. I pleaded being superannuated. She would not excuse me. I promised she should have an ode on her next birthday, which diverted the Prince ; but all would not do. So, as I came home, I made the following stanzas, and sent them to her breakfast next morning : — In deathless odes for...
Page 446 - Burney] knew the world and penetrated characters before she had stepped over the threshold ; and, now she has seen so much of it, she has little or no insight at all : perhaps she apprehended having seen too much, and kept the bags of foul air that she brought from the Cave of Tempests too closely tied.
Page ii - ... bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour; partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace.
Page 133 - Berry has since carried his daughters for two or three years to France and Italy, and they are returned the bestinformed and the most perfect creatures I ever saw at their age. They are exceedingly sensible, entirely natural and unaffected, frank, and, being qualified to talk on any subject, nothing is so easy and agreeable as their conversation, nor more apposite than their answers and observations.
Page 294 - Elgin's courier first, as you expected, and its elder the next day. You tell me mine entertain you ; tant mieux. It is my wish, but my wonder ; for I live so little in the world, that I do not know the present generation by sight : for, though I pass by them in the streets, the hats with valences, the folds above the chin of the ladies, and the dirty shirts and shaggy hair of the young men, who have levelled nobility almost as much as the mobility in France have, have confounded all individuality.
Page 456 - And can such letters be worth showing ? or can I have any spirit when so old, and reduced to dictate ? Oh ! my good Madam, dispense with me from such a task, and think how it must add to it to apprehend such letters being shown. Pray send me no more such laurels, which I desire no more than their leaves when decked with a scrap of tinsel, and stuck on twelfthcakes that lie on the shop-boards of pastrycooks at Christmas. I shall be quite content with a sprig of rosemary thrown after me, when the parson...
Page 226 - Last night the Earl of Barrymore was so humble as to perform a buffoon-dance and act Scaramouch in a pantomime at Richmond for the benefit of Edwin, jun., the comedian : ' and I, like an old fool, but calling myself a philosopher that loves to study human nature in all its disguises, went to see the performance.
Page 135 - To Mary's lips has ancient Rome Her purest language taught, And from the modern city .home Agnes its pencil brought. Rome's ancient Horace sweetly chants Such maids with lyric fire ; Albion's old Horace sings nor paints — He only can admire.
Page 197 - Being satisfied with my intelligence about Chatterton, I wrote him a letter with as much kindness and tenderness as if I had been his guardian ; for though I had no doubt of his impositions, such a spirit of poetry breathed in his coinage as interested me for him ; nor was it a grave crime in a young bard to have forged false notes of hand that were to pass current only in the parish of Parnassus. I undeceived him about my being a person...