Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,Vicesimus Knox Charles Dilly., 1790 - 798 Seiten |
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... Happy intercourse , remote from noise , from care , from ftrife , from envy and happy thofe who have leifure , fenfe , and taste , to relish it ! That a fatisfaction fo pure and fo exalted , may be enjoyed from this attempt , is the ...
... Happy intercourse , remote from noise , from care , from ftrife , from envy and happy thofe who have leifure , fenfe , and taste , to relish it ! That a fatisfaction fo pure and fo exalted , may be enjoyed from this attempt , is the ...
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... happy ? And I should have rendered them fo , if I had acted with lefs timidity . Puo's behaviour towards us in this fea- f of our afflictions , has greatly endear- ed him to my heart : and I have , as well as I was able in the prefent ...
... happy ? And I should have rendered them fo , if I had acted with lefs timidity . Puo's behaviour towards us in this fea- f of our afflictions , has greatly endear- ed him to my heart : and I have , as well as I was able in the prefent ...
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... happy in her father , fhould now derive from him fuch bitter forrows ! But how fhall I exprefs the anguish I feel for my little boy ! who became acquainted with grief as foon as he was capable of any reflection . Had thefe afflictions ...
... happy in her father , fhould now derive from him fuch bitter forrows ! But how fhall I exprefs the anguish I feel for my little boy ! who became acquainted with grief as foon as he was capable of any reflection . Had thefe afflictions ...
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... happy time fhall arrive , to ac- company me in my litter to myfeveral villas . You muit impute it to the excets of my friendship , and not to the abundance of my leifure , that I have lengthened this letter beyond my ufual extent . It ...
... happy time fhall arrive , to ac- company me in my litter to myfeveral villas . You muit impute it to the excets of my friendship , and not to the abundance of my leifure , that I have lengthened this letter beyond my ufual extent . It ...
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... happy omen that had fomething in it more than accidental . As it was my in- tention , therefore , before I received your letter , to have tranfmitted Trebatius to you ; fo I now confign him to your pa- tronage as upon your own ...
... happy omen that had fomething in it more than accidental . As it was my in- tention , therefore , before I received your letter , to have tranfmitted Trebatius to you ; fo I now confign him to your pa- tronage as upon your own ...
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Seite 240 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 193 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. But let not your grace...
Seite 194 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Seite 337 - ... yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Seite 468 - ... lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...
Seite 474 - Now, sir,' continued Mr. Lintot, 'in return for the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdowne will be brought to the bar or not?' I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — 'That may be,' replied Mr. Lintot; 'but by G if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.
Seite 294 - You writ me lately for a footman, and I ' think this bearer will fit you : I know he can run ' well, for he hath run away twice from me, but he ' knew the way back again ; yet, though he hath a ' running head as well as running heels (and who will ' expect a footman to be a stayed man ?) I would ' not part with him were I not to go post to the
Seite 193 - ... enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Seite 472 - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: 'Now, damn them! What if they should put it into the newspaper how you and I went together to Oxford?
Seite 474 - Now, sir, (continued Mr. Lintot,) in return to the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdown will be brought to the bar or not?" I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — " That may be," replied Mr. Lintot, " but by G , if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.