Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,Vicesimus Knox Charles Dilly., 1790 - 798 Seiten |
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... matter . They have nothing in them of the healthy hue and lively vigour of nature . They refemble puny plants raised in a clime ungenial , by the gardener's inceffant labour , yet poffeff- ing , after all , neither beauty , flavour ...
... matter . They have nothing in them of the healthy hue and lively vigour of nature . They refemble puny plants raised in a clime ungenial , by the gardener's inceffant labour , yet poffeff- ing , after all , neither beauty , flavour ...
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... matter for fpeculation on the language and cuftoms of perfons in high rank , at the period in which they were compofed . It is a recommendation . of them , that they are genuine family letters , not studiously laboured , like thofe of ...
... matter for fpeculation on the language and cuftoms of perfons in high rank , at the period in which they were compofed . It is a recommendation . of them , that they are genuine family letters , not studiously laboured , like thofe of ...
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... matter of little confequence . convey your letters . I would have waited for them at this place ; but the matter of the fhip on which I am going to embark , could not be prevailed upon to lose the prefent opportunity of failing . For ...
... matter of little confequence . convey your letters . I would have waited for them at this place ; but the matter of the fhip on which I am going to embark , could not be prevailed upon to lose the prefent opportunity of failing . For ...
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... matter . She told me , she had ap- plied to Licinia to speak to her brother Caflius : but I believe he is not upon very good terms with his fifter . The anfwer which Licinia gave my daughter was , that her husband being gone into Spain ...
... matter . She told me , she had ap- plied to Licinia to speak to her brother Caflius : but I believe he is not upon very good terms with his fifter . The anfwer which Licinia gave my daughter was , that her husband being gone into Spain ...
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... matter . Cicero understood this very well , " when writing to a friend in England , with a " caution , among other matters , to beware of be- " ing cheated by our hackney - coachmen ( who it " feems , in thofe days , were as errant ...
... matter . Cicero understood this very well , " when writing to a friend in England , with a " caution , among other matters , to beware of be- " ing cheated by our hackney - coachmen ( who it " feems , in thofe days , were as errant ...
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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.