The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. |
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... least temptation to stoop down to me , flattered me in the most agreeable manner . If there could arrive the moment when you could be nobody and I anybody , you cannot ima- gine how grateful I would be . In the mean time , permit me to ...
... least temptation to stoop down to me , flattered me in the most agreeable manner . If there could arrive the moment when you could be nobody and I anybody , you cannot ima- gine how grateful I would be . In the mean time , permit me to ...
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... least trouble to make collections for me . I have received so much assistance and information from you , that I am sure I cannot have a more useful friend . For the Catalogue , I forgot it , as in the course of things I suppose it is ...
... least trouble to make collections for me . I have received so much assistance and information from you , that I am sure I cannot have a more useful friend . For the Catalogue , I forgot it , as in the course of things I suppose it is ...
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... least intention of offending you , that I could not help being struck at my own ill - fortune , and with the sensation raised by find- ing you mix great goodness with great severity . I am naturally very impatient under praise ; I have ...
... least intention of offending you , that I could not help being struck at my own ill - fortune , and with the sensation raised by find- ing you mix great goodness with great severity . I am naturally very impatient under praise ; I have ...
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... least is no villainous judge of architecture ; some of our English travellers abuse it ; but there are far from striking faults : the general idea seems borrowed from Inigo Jones's Whitehall , though with- out the glaring uglinesses ...
... least is no villainous judge of architecture ; some of our English travellers abuse it ; but there are far from striking faults : the general idea seems borrowed from Inigo Jones's Whitehall , though with- out the glaring uglinesses ...
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... least trouble to counterfeit the style of any one of them . What was so easy as to imitate Burnet ? In his other work , the notes on Horace , he is still more ab- surd . He cries up Warburton's preposterous notes on Shak- speare , which ...
... least trouble to counterfeit the style of any one of them . What was so easy as to imitate Burnet ? In his other work , the notes on Horace , he is still more ab- surd . He cries up Warburton's preposterous notes on Shak- speare , which ...
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