The Wits and Beaux of Society, Band 2J.W. Jarvis & son, 1890 |
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... party writing , whether polemical or political , cast a shade over authors in his time . Never was there , beneath all his assumed Whig principles , a more profound aristocrat than Horace Walpole . He was , by birth , one of those well ...
... party writing , whether polemical or political , cast a shade over authors in his time . Never was there , beneath all his assumed Whig principles , a more profound aristocrat than Horace Walpole . He was , by birth , one of those well ...
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... party gossip , or heterodox disquisitions upon party , was esteemed odd : everything original was cramped ; 20 George Vertue . everything imaginative was sneered at ;
... party gossip , or heterodox disquisitions upon party , was esteemed odd : everything original was cramped ; 20 George Vertue . everything imaginative was sneered at ;
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... party feeling was withdrawn . He was fast declining in health when the insurrection of 1745 was impend- ing . He had warned the country of its danger in his last speech , one of the finest ever made in the House of Lords : after that ...
... party feeling was withdrawn . He was fast declining in health when the insurrection of 1745 was impend- ing . He had warned the country of its danger in his last speech , one of the finest ever made in the House of Lords : after that ...
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... parties . But these were peaceful diversions . The following anecdote is worthy of the times of George II . and of Frederick of Wales : - ' There is a very good quarrel , ' Horace writes , ' on foot , be tween two duchesses : she of ...
... parties . But these were peaceful diversions . The following anecdote is worthy of the times of George II . and of Frederick of Wales : - ' There is a very good quarrel , ' Horace writes , ' on foot , be tween two duchesses : she of ...
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... party of guests from London over Strawberry : -enter we with him , and let us stand in the great parlour before a portrait by Wright of the Minister to whom all courts bowed . That is my father , Sir Robert , in profile , ' and a vulgar ...
... party of guests from London over Strawberry : -enter we with him , and let us stand in the great parlour before a portrait by Wright of the Minister to whom all courts bowed . That is my father , Sir Robert , in profile , ' and a vulgar ...
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