Letters of Mary Lepel [sic] Lady Hervey: With a Memoir and Illustrative NotesJ. Murray, 1821 - 332 Seiten |
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Letters of Mary Lepel [Sic] Lady Hervey: With a Memoir and Illustrative Notes Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able acquaintance Admiral affair agree agreeable amiable amuse answer Augustus believe bid you adieu Bishop called certainly Charles cheerful confess daughter death died Duke Duke of Newcastle Earl Edmund Morris England entertaining eyes favour fear France Frederick French George give glad gout happy hear heard Henry Bilson Legge Hervey's honour hope Horace Horace Walpole Ickworth Ickworth-Park judge King King of Prussia Lady Hervey late least Lepel LETTER lived London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Bristol Lord Chesterfield Lord Granby Lord Hervey mind minister Monsieur Morris never Nursling obliged occasion Old Windsor opinion pamphlet Paris perhaps Phipps Pitt pleased pleasure political poor present Prince probably reason received seems sent sincere soon sorry spirits Stanley supposed sure taste thank thing thought town truth Walpole whilst William wish worthy write wrote
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Seite 324 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant.
Seite 139 - The Prince's family is an example of innocent and cheerful amusement. All this last summer they played abroad ; and now, in the winter, in a large room they divert themselves at base-ball, a play all who are, or have been, schoolboys are well acquainted with.
Seite 145 - A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages through several successive centuries.
Seite 37 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Seite 115 - If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick : when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
Seite 197 - Balls, masquerades, and parties for play, and suppers abound SO much that not only each night furnishes one, but many nights produce two or three. That at Lord Granville's has made a very great match. Mr. Spencer there fell in love with one of the daughters of Sir Cecil Bishop, who has a great many children, and a small estate.
Seite 306 - Bath's leaving me no little bauble, in token of remembrance, did not surprise, and consequently could riot vex me. He was a most agreeable companion, and a very good-humoured man ; but I, that have known him above forty years, knew that he never thought of any one when he did not see them, nor ever cared a great deal for those he did see.
Seite 310 - ... great deal. I like them extremely, and should be happy in their acquaintance, if my vanity did not throw cold water on that pleasure. In short, I confess I am mortified when new acquaintance see me as I now am. I don't mean as to my figure, but as to my understanding, which is full as old and as grey as the other. Don't laugh at me for my vanity. We all have our share of it in some shape or degree, and, take the species as it is, ready made, I question whether vanity is not the most general and...
Seite 209 - Pulteney's were copious and wandering from the subject. Ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, he wanted in his expense the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope and Churchill treated him...
Seite 14 - I see and feel the greatness of this last misfortune in every light, but I will struggle to the utmost ; and though I know, at least I think, I can never be happy again, yet; I will be as little miserable as possible, and will make use of the reason I have to soften, not to aggravate, my affliction.