The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1857 |
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Página cxxvii - Yes, she has one, I must aver : When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf and does not hear.
Página 191 - ... in the street, and others honest labouring women. One of the dead was a poor washerwoman, big with child, who was returning home late from washing. One of the constables is taken, and others absconded; but I question if any of them will suffer death, though the greatest criminals in this town are the officers of justice; there is no tyranny they do not exercise, no villainy of which they do not partake.
Página lxvii - One night in the beginning of November, 1749, as I was returning from Holland House by moonlight, about ten at night, I was attacked by two highwaymen in Hyde Park, and the pistol of one of them going off accidentally, razed the skin under my eye, left some marks of shot on my face, and stunned me. The ball went through the top of the chariot, and if I had sat an inch nearer to the left side, must have gone through my head.
Página cxix - Twelfth-night, at Court, had won so large a sum of money, that he thought it imprudent to carry it home in the dark, and deposited it with the mistress. Thence the Queen inferred great intimacy, and thenceforwards Lord Chesterfield could obtain no favour from Court ; and finding himself desperate, went into Opposition.
Página 58 - Talibus Ilioneus : cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae. 560 Tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur : Solvite corde metum, Teucri ; secludite curas. Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.
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Página 56 - I am employed pour barbouiller une page de 7 pounces et demie en hauteur, et 5 en largeur ; and to inform you that we are at Florence, a city of Italy, and the capital of Tuscany : the latitude I cannot justly tell, but it is governed by a prince called Great Duke; an excellent place to employ all one's animal sensations in, but utterly contrary to one's rational powers.