Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent PersonsJames Philemon Holcombe D. Appleton, 1866 - 520 pages |
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... whole , seemed to the Editor much preferable to an arrangement on any other plan . With one or two exceptions , no translations of foreign letters have been introduced . The principal exception has been in the case of Madame de Sévigné ...
... whole , seemed to the Editor much preferable to an arrangement on any other plan . With one or two exceptions , no translations of foreign letters have been introduced . The principal exception has been in the case of Madame de Sévigné ...
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... whole company ) . You know what it is to get a word from everybody you meet . Madame de Mon- tespan talked to me of Bourbon , and asked me how I liked Vichi , and whether the place did me good . She said that Bour- bon , instead of ...
... whole company ) . You know what it is to get a word from everybody you meet . Madame de Mon- tespan talked to me of Bourbon , and asked me how I liked Vichi , and whether the place did me good . She said that Bour- bon , instead of ...
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... whole valued at twenty- two millions of livres . The contract was then drawn up , and he took the name of Montpensier . Thursday morning , which was yesterday , Mademoiselle was in expectation of the King's signing the contract , as he ...
... whole valued at twenty- two millions of livres . The contract was then drawn up , and he took the name of Montpensier . Thursday morning , which was yesterday , Mademoiselle was in expectation of the King's signing the contract , as he ...
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... whole , his condition does not seem so very deplorable . Mademoiselle , too , has behaved ex- tremely well on her side . She has wept much and bitterly ; but yesterday , for the first time , she returned to pay her duty at the Louvre ...
... whole , his condition does not seem so very deplorable . Mademoiselle , too , has behaved ex- tremely well on her side . She has wept much and bitterly ; but yesterday , for the first time , she returned to pay her duty at the Louvre ...
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... whole kingdom to talk , and that it is absolutely tempting God , and the King , to protract an affair of so extraordinary a nature as this is to so distant a period ? " She allowed me to be in the right , but was so sure of success ...
... whole kingdom to talk , and that it is absolutely tempting God , and the King , to protract an affair of so extraordinary a nature as this is to so distant a period ? " She allowed me to be in the right , but was so sure of success ...
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Page 400 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...
Page 380 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 434 - While the ploughman, near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Page 300 - Try me, good king, but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...
Page 400 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 465 - The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
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Page 303 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 43 - This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque Duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a...
Page 303 - I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.