The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 9R. Bentley, 1866 - Authors, English |
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Page xxii - ... bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour; partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace.
Page 92 - After the late execution of the eiijMetn malefactors, a female was hawking an account of them, but called them nineteen. A gentleman said to her, " Why do you say nineteen ? there were but eighteen hanged. She replied, " Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.
Page 319 - After the Doctor's death, Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Boswell sent an ambling circular-letter to me, begging subscriptions for a Monument for him — the two last, I think, impertinently ; as they could not but know my opinion, and could not suppose I would contribute to a Monument for one who had endeavoured, poor soul ! to degrade my friend's superlative poetry. I would not deign to write an answer ; but sent down word by my footman, as I would have done to parish officers with a brief, that...
Page 164 - I am afraid of protesting how much I delight in your society, lest I should seem to affect being gallant ; but if two negatives make an affirmative, why may not two ridicules compose one piece of sense ? and therefore, as I am in love with you both, I trust it is a proof of the good sense of your devoted Feb.
Page 318 - I live so little in the world, that I do not know the present generation by sight : for, though I pass by them in the streets, the hats with valences, the folds above the chin of the ladies, and the dirty shirts and shaggy hair of the young men, who have levelled nobility almost as much as the mobility in France have, have confounded all individuality.
Page 79 - The great hall, the great gallery, the eating-room, and the corridor, are covered with whole and half lengths of royal family, favourites, ministers, peers, and judges, of the reign of Charles I. — not one an original, I think, at least not one fine, yet altogether they look very respectable...
Page 186 - Loutherbourg, the painter, is turned an inspired physician, and has three thousand patients. His sovereign panacea is barleywater. I believe it as efficacious as mesmerism. Baron Swedenborg's disciples multiply also — I am glad of it : the more religions and the more follies the better : they inveigle proselytes from one another.
Page 221 - Being satisfied with my intelligence about Chatterton, I wrote him a letter with as much kindness and tenderness as if I had been his guardian ; for though I had no doubt of his impositions, such a spirit of poetry breathed in his coinage as interested me for him ; nor was it a grave crime in a young bard to have forged false notes of hand that were to pass current only in the parish of Parnassus. I undeceived him about my being a person...
Page 46 - Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson.' I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean; not in him. I had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style, and too void of method even for such a farrago. Her panegyric is loud in praise of her hero ; and almost every fact she relates disgraces him.
Page 453 - To his excellent friend MISS HANNAH MORE, this Book, which he knows to be the dearest object of her study, and by which, to the great comfort and relief of numberless afflicted and distressed individuals, she has profited beyond any person with whom he is acquainted, is offered as a mark of his esteem and gratitude, by her sincere and obliged humble servant, HORACE, EARL OF ORFORD, 1795.