A chronicle of the Fermors: Horace Walpole in love, כרך 1Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
added admiration affair afterwards Alphonse already appeared beauty Black Prince charming clever Commyns Countess Court dance Dashwood daughter diamonds dinner dress Duchess Duke Earl Easton Neston England Esher everything eyes face Fancy fashion favour Florence fortune friends gallery garden gentleman George Montagu going grace hand handsome Hanover happy honour Horace Walpole Italian Keats Lady Barbara Lady Carry Lady Carteret Lady Charlotte Lady Henrietta Lady Mary Lady Pomfret Lady Sophia Fermor Lady Townshend ladyship laughing letter Lomax look Lord Carteret Lord Granby Lord Holderness Lord Lempster Lord Lincoln lovers madam Majesty married mind minuet Miss Montagu Momus mother nature never night Norfolk House Northamptonshire Palazzo Pelham perhaps person Petrarch Pitt pleasant poor lady present Prince Ridolfi royal scene season sentiment Sir Robert staring stood taste things thought tone town turned Tuscan uncle Vauxhall Walpole's whispered wife Winnington woman wonder young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 30 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
עמוד 19 - ... em. Did I tell you Lady Mary Wortley is here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze any one that never heard her name. She wears a foul mob, that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled ; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.
עמוד 161 - The King's character may be comprised in very few words. In private life he would have been called an honest blockhead ; and Fortune, that made him a king, added nothing to his happiness, only prejudiced his honesty, and shortened his days. No man was ever more free from ambition; he loved money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting ; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have...
עמוד 5 - Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent, like thee.
עמוד 18 - You have not been witness to the rhapsody of mystic nonsense which these two fair ones debate incessantly, and consequently cannot figure what must be the issue of this triple alliance : we have some idea of it. Only figure the coalition of prudery, debauchery, sentiment, history, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and metaphysics ; all, except the second, understood by halves, by quarters, or not at all. You shall have the journals of this notable academy.
עמוד 233 - PHYLLIDA, that lov'd to dream In the grove, or by the stream, Sigh'd on velvet pillow : What, alas ! should fill her head, But a fountain or a mead, Water and a willow ? Love in cities never dwells, He delights in rural cells Which sweet woodbine covers : What are your assemblies then ? There, 'tis true, we see more men, But much fewer lovers.
עמוד 161 - England has been sacrificed to the interest of Hanover, and consequently insinuates the incompatibility of the two. Lord Chesterfield says, " that if we have a mind effectually to prevent the Pretender from ever obtaining this crown, we should make him Elector of Hanover, for the people of England will never fetch another king from...
עמוד 162 - England; and the natural honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions of a low education, made him look upon his acceptance of the crown as an act of usurpation, which was always uneasy to him.
עמוד 138 - Oh Lord ! is there no Court in England, but the king's ? sure, there are many more ! There is the Court of Chancery, the Court of Exchequer, the Court of King's Bench, &c.
עמוד 93 - Townshend is spitting up his lungs at the Gravel-pits, and his charming lady diverting herself with daily rambles in town. She has made a new friendship, which is very delightful ; I mean with Madame Pulteney; and they hunt in couples from tea-drinking till midnight.