The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 4R. Bentley, 1857 |
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a-year Adieu afterwards Albemarle Arlington Street believe Bishop brother Bute's Charles Townshend Countess court CUNNINGHAM Czarina daughter dear lord DEAR SIR died Duchess of Bedford Duchess of Grafton Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle eldest expect France French Gallery George Grenville GEORGE MONTAGU give glad Greatworth Grenville Guerchy H. S. CONWAY Havannah hear heard hither honour hope HORACE WALPOLE House of Commons King of Prussia King's Lady Mary letter live Lord Bute Lord Granby Lord Hertford Lord Sandwich Lord Temple Lord Waldegrave married minister ministry Monsieur morning never night Nivernois North Briton numbers obliged opposition Paris Park-place Parliament peace Pitt politics present Prince Princess Queen Selwyn sent servant SIR HORACE MANN sister Strawberry Hill suppose sure tell thought thousand pounds to-day told town vote Walpole Walpole's week Wilkes WILLIAM COLE wish write yesterday
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Page 174 - So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni Club ' (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses), they played again : the Due lost, but not much. In the passage at the Opera, the Due saw Mr. Stuart talking to Virette, and told the former that
Page 122 - are not in Hudibras. Butler has the same thought in two lines— " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Page 388 - no doubt a fixed resolution to get rid of them all, (except, perhaps, Grenville,) but principally of the Duke of Bedford. So that you will have more reason to be surprised to find the Ministry standing by the end of the next week than to hear of their entire removal."—Prior's Life of Burke, p.
Page 453 - and in the next, means men, who, avowing war against popery, aim, many of them, at a subversion of all religion, and still many more, at the destruction of regal power. How do you know this ? you will say ; you, who have been but six weeks in France,
Page 461 - it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe. I have not seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they anything green but their treillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fireshovels, and stuck into pedestals of chalk, compose their country. Their boasted knowledge of society is reduced to talking of their
Page 318 - it gave me two or three years ago. There has been nothing of note in Parliament but one slight day on the American taxes, 1 which, Charles Townshend supporting, received a pretty heavy thump from Barré, who is the present Pitt, and the dread of all the vociferous Norths and
Page 388 - productive of such a change are strongly at work. The Regency Bill has shown such a want of concert and want of capacity in Ministers—such an inattention to the honour of the Crown, if not a design against it—such imposition and suspicion upon the King, and such a misrepresentation of the disposition of Parliament to the Sovereign, that there
Page 498 - myself.—Yes, like Queen Eleanor in the ballad, I sunk at Charing Cross, and have risen in the Fauxbourg St. Germain. A plaisanterie on Rousseau, whose arrival here in his way to you brought me acquainted with many anecdotes conformable to the idea I had conceived of him, got about, was
Page 388 - In a letter of Mr. Burke to Mr. Flood, dated 18th May 1765, he thus states his view of the political prospect of this period :—" There is a strong probability that new men will come in, and not improbably with new ideas ; at this very instant, the