The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 9

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To Lady Ossory July 1 His recovery from the fallThe state of France
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To the same April 30 Dearth of news sSeverity of the springTrial
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To Conway June 18 Account of his visit to the Princess Amelia at Gun
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To the same July 22 He imagines that Lady Ossory and he agree in their
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To Lady Ossory Dec 1 The letter of BeaumarchaisSlighting opinion
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To Mann Oct 4 Is there any news?Old and modern directions on letters
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To the same Sept 4 On their declining a visit to Wentworth House
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To Hannah More June 15 The Irish characterMiss Burney
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To Lady Ossory Nov 8 Striking reflections on the French Revolution
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To the same Oct 4 He requests Lady Ossory not to show his letters
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To Conway Nov 11 On the small Druidical temple presented by
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To the same Dec 12 He returns a letter from Mr Hervey The ingra
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To the same Jan 15 1788 The theatre at Richmond HouseHis
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To Hannah More July 12 On his own writingsAuthorship after seventy
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To Lady Ossory Sept 6 The Druids templeDescription of Park Place
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To Pinkerton Dec 15 Excuse for not writing to himHas lost two
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To Lady Ossory Sept 24 He commends a description of Dr Johnson
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To Lady Ossory Nov 16 He cannot compose letters Answers Lady
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To Lady Ossory Oct 19 He sends verses he has composed in praise of
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To Hannah More July 2 Thanks for permission to print Bishop
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To Lady Ossory July 16 Encloses Hannah Mores Bonners Ghost
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To Lady Ossory Aug 14 Condoles with Lady Ossory on the Death
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To Conway Sept 5 Thanks to him for a poemDeath of Lady Dysart
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To Lady Ossory Aug 22 His tolerance of praiseBurkes book
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To Miss Agnes Berry Feb 13 Narrative of the history of a marriage
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To the Earl of Charlemont Feb 17 On a surreptitious edition of The
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To the same Oct 9 His gout againMrs AllansonAnacharsis
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To the same March 5 London unknown to LondonersWho is
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To Miss Berry July 3 His alarm at their design of visiting Italy
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To Lady Ossory Sept 8 He undertakes to compose a catalogue of
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To the same Sept 25 ValombrosoIonian antiquitiesEgyptian pyra
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To the same June 27 Recounts his ailmentsMrs Hobarts fêtesHigh
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To the same Nov 29 Observations arising out of the state of France
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To the Miss Berrys Sept 17 Reminds them of his first introduction
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To the Miss Berrys Oct 15 Arrest of the Duchesse de Biron and of
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To the Miss Berrys Dec 13 Reported successes of Lord Howe and
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To Mann Dec 4 Orestes and Pylades or Walpole and MannThe
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To the same Sept 4 Death of RobespierreReflections arising out of that
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To Miss Berry Oct 7 On the advisability of her accepting a situation
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To Mason March 19 Rejoiced to see his handwriting againWill explain
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To the same April 14 1756 Same subject
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To Edmond Malone Feb 4 1782 Chatterton and RowleyRev Thomas
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To the same Oct 29 Death and funeral of Lord Waldegrave Resigna
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To Lady Browne Dec 14 Last illness and death of Kitty CliveLord
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To Hannah More Feb 9 On her poem of Florio dedicated to
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To the same April 23 Resignation of the Duke of LeedsProgress of
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To Hannah More Jan 24 1795 With his subscription to the fund
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To Hannah More April 27 An invitation to meet Lady Waldegrave
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To William Roscoe April 4 On his sending him a copy of his Life
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To Edmund Lodge June 19 Submitting list of historical decorations
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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.

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