The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1770-1797

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Henry Colburn, 1837
 

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115 페이지 - ... as a new discovery. They hold a Parnassus fair every Thursday, give out rhymes and themes, and all the flux of quality at Bath contend for the prizes. A Roman vase, dressed with pink ribbons and myrtles, receives the poetry, which is drawn out every festival ; six judges of these Olympic games retire and select the brightest compositions, which the respective successful acknowledge, kneel to Mrs. Calliope Miller, kiss her fair hand, and are crowned by it with myrtle — with — I don't know...
390 페이지 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
112 페이지 - The Antiquities of Furness ; or an Account of the Royal Abbey of St. Mary, in the vale of Nightshade, near Dalton, in Furness.
355 페이지 - In those days Old Sarum will again be a town and have houses in it. There will be fights in the air with wind-guns and bows and arrows ; and there will be prodigious increase of land for tillage, especially in France, by breaking up all public roads as useless.
82 페이지 - I am certainly the greatest philosopher in the world, without ever having thought of being so : always employed, and never busy ; eager about trifles, and indifferent to every thing serious. Well, if it is not philosophy, at least it is content.
433 페이지 - Last night the Earl of Barrymore was so humble as to perform a buffoon-dance and act Scaramouch in a pantomime at Richmond for the benefit of Edwin, jun., the comedian : ' and I, like an old fool, but calling myself a philosopher that loves to study human nature in all its disguises, went to see the performance.
115 페이지 - Helicon. Ten years ago there lived a Madam Riggs, an old rough humourist who passed for a wit; her daughter, who passed for nothing, married to a Captain Miller, full of good-natured officiousness. These good folks were friends of Miss Rich,1 who carried me to dine with them at Batheaston, now Pindus.
115 페이지 - Alas ! Mrs. Miller is returned a beauty, a genius, a Sappho, a tenth Muse, as romantic as Mademoiselle Scuderi, and as sophisticated as Mrs. Vesey. The captain's fingers are loaded with cameos, his tongue runs over with virtu, and, that both may contribute to the improvement of their own country, they have introduced bouts-rimes as a new discovery.
106 페이지 - Bay; and you may depend upon my firm and steadfast resolution to withstand every attempt to weaken or impair the supreme authority of this Legislature over all the dominions of my Crown ; the maintenance of which I consider as essential to the dignity, the safety, and the welfare of the British Empire-, assuring myself that, while I act upon these principles, I shall never fail to receive your assistance and support.
371 페이지 - The; more one learns of Johnson, the more preposterous assemblage he appears of strong sense, of the lowest bigotry and prejudices, of pride, brutality, fretfulness and vanity, — and Boswell is the ape of most of his faults, without a grain of his sense. It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.

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