Letters, 1784-1789Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... hear , returned , and called yesterday upon me . I was from home . The reason of his return I have not learnt , and the fact surprises me ; but I cannot doubt it , from what the servants mention , and of Dominica . Your account of ...
... hear , returned , and called yesterday upon me . I was from home . The reason of his return I have not learnt , and the fact surprises me ; but I cannot doubt it , from what the servants mention , and of Dominica . Your account of ...
Side 16
... hear more of you . In the House of Commons nothing has yet been done , but swearing in the Members , and receiving their qualifica- tions , but it is supposed the King's Speech will be debated on Monday , and the High Bailiff of ...
... hear more of you . In the House of Commons nothing has yet been done , but swearing in the Members , and receiving their qualifica- tions , but it is supposed the King's Speech will be debated on Monday , and the High Bailiff of ...
Side 37
... hear you agreed for , the most agreeable payment I can make . Once a fortnight I have paid the washerwoman , and once a week the cook , butcher , & c . since your absence . The P. of W. is thought to have de- clared 37.
... hear you agreed for , the most agreeable payment I can make . Once a fortnight I have paid the washerwoman , and once a week the cook , butcher , & c . since your absence . The P. of W. is thought to have de- clared 37.
Side 47
... hear no more petitions after that of Hereford this session . By this resolution only the double returns will be heard , and Middlesex with all the others will necessarily be put off till December or February . Probably , very probably ...
... hear no more petitions after that of Hereford this session . By this resolution only the double returns will be heard , and Middlesex with all the others will necessarily be put off till December or February . Probably , very probably ...
Side 49
... hear , un visage plat , and not much meaning in the eye , that index of the soul . Besides my 4 other objections to him , if he should be the cause of too great fatigue , by which my dear daugher may suffer , he will be sure of an ...
... hear , un visage plat , and not much meaning in the eye , that index of the soul . Besides my 4 other objections to him , if he should be the cause of too great fatigue , by which my dear daugher may suffer , he will be sure of an ...
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Adieu Alderman Anacharsis arrived Baron Baron d'Holbach believe bills Brighthelmstone Calais Captain Chamberlain charming Colonel compliments contrive Cosway d'Holbach dear daughter dearest daughter dearest Polly desire diligence dined dinner Dover Duke elegant Elmsly enclose excellent Dutchess favour fête France French Friday friends give glad Gordon Grosvenor Square guineas Guyon happy Hastings hear High Bailiff honour hope House of Commons Isle of Wight Journaux journey July June Kensington Gore Lady last week late Leguillon letter likewise London Lord Lord Lansdowne Madame mention Mercure Monday morning night obliged packet Paice parcel Paris Parliament petition Pitt pleased pleasure present Prince Prince's Court prints racter received Sandham Cottage Saturday says sent servant settled Sève Sir William South Parade Sunday Susan Swinburne thank thing Thursday tion to-day to-morrow Tuesday Valliere weather Wednesday Westminster Wilkes wish write wrote yesterday
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Side 39 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Side 220 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Side 259 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Side 220 - Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie, What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face Eyed through Hope's deluding glass...
Side 220 - Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which, to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear.
Side 24 - Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Side 41 - I was obliged to eat stale fish, and swallow sour port, with sir Cecil Wray, Mr. Martin the banker, Dr. Jebb, &c. to promote the grand reform of parliament. I was forced into the chair, and was so far happy as to be highly applauded, both for a long speech, and my conduct as president through an arduous day. I have not, however, authenticated to the public any account of the day's proceeding, nor given to the press the various new-fangled toasts which were the amusement of the hour, and should perish...
Side 297 - Tooke. t On this subject, Mr. Wilkes relates the following anecdote : — The Bishop of B. told me that a most respectable lady, of his particular friendship, said to him, " The Prince came in here yesterday, overjoyed, saying, ' I never did better in any thing ; I behaved incomparably well ; I could not have thought it, as the case was quite new to me.
Side 143 - Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer?
Side 240 - A looking-glass, in a pier, between two windows, had been covered with green cloth to prevent the king's seeing how greatly he was emaciated. The king asked the reason of the green cloth being put there. The answer was, ' To prevent the reflection of too much light.