The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, 第 1 巻R. Bentley, 1861 - 635 ページ |
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... expect more than she had a right to claim . She soon grew jealous of the increasing kindness I met with , both from my uncle and aunt , and was a strong instance how dangerous it is to the best dispositions to be too much occupied with ...
... expect more than she had a right to claim . She soon grew jealous of the increasing kindness I met with , both from my uncle and aunt , and was a strong instance how dangerous it is to the best dispositions to be too much occupied with ...
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... expecting to see so ruinous a place . The rest of the house was answerable to what I have described . It had not been inhabited for above thirty The editor visited Roscrow in August , 1856 , and convinced herself , ( ' n contradiction ...
... expecting to see so ruinous a place . The rest of the house was answerable to what I have described . It had not been inhabited for above thirty The editor visited Roscrow in August , 1856 , and convinced herself , ( ' n contradiction ...
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... expect ? " I was so much surprised and vexed that it threw me into an agony of tears ; he assured me all the time that he had nothing to charge me with ; that my behaviour was just what he wished it to be , but he could not help seeing ...
... expect ? " I was so much surprised and vexed that it threw me into an agony of tears ; he assured me all the time that he had nothing to charge me with ; that my behaviour was just what he wished it to be , but he could not help seeing ...
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... expect any other . Among other things I have been informed that ' tis a mark of disaffection to the Government to lead you from the church to your coach , and that an unfortunate neigh- bour has lately been in trouble upon that account ...
... expect any other . Among other things I have been informed that ' tis a mark of disaffection to the Government to lead you from the church to your coach , and that an unfortunate neigh- bour has lately been in trouble upon that account ...
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... expect Mrs. Nelly Warren to dine with me to - day , I have not yet seen her . Yesterday my Cousin Ogle was here , who asked very much after all friends at Buckland ; she expects her husband home soon , laden with the prizes he has taken ...
... expect Mrs. Nelly Warren to dine with me to - day , I have not yet seen her . Yesterday my Cousin Ogle was here , who asked very much after all friends at Buckland ; she expects her husband home soon , laden with the prizes he has taken ...
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acquaintance afterwards agreeable Ann Granville aunt Bath believe Bishop brother Collingwood compliments Countess danced daughter of Sir Dean Swift dear niece dearest sister death Delany delight desire died dined Donellan Dublin Duchess of Portland Duke eldest entertainment father favour fortune gave George give glad Gloucester Gromio happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole humble duty humble servant Ireland Killala King Lady Carteret Lady Mary Lady Sunderland Lady Weymouth letter live London Lord Baltimore Lord Carteret Lord Lansdowne Lord Weymouth madam mama married Mary Granville Miss Collingwood morning mother never night Northend obliged opera Pendarves Phill pleased pleasure poor Pray pretty Prince Princess Queen received sent Sir John Stanley Somerset House soon Swift tell things Thomas thought told town walk wife William wish woman write wrote yesterday young
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552 ページ - Henry Cavendish Earl of Ogle, (son and heir of Henry Duke of Newcastle,) who assumed the name of Percy ; but his Lordship died without issue, 1st Nov., 1680, and her Ladyship married in 1682, (3rdly, it is stated, but she appears to have been only contracted toThomas Thynne, Esq., of Longleate, who was assassinated Feb.
283 ページ - I have released Lady Sunder.land from her promise of giving me her picture by Zinck, to have it done by Hogarth.1 I think he takes a much greater likeness, and that is what I shall value my friend's picture for, more than for the excellence of the painting. Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions about drawing that will be of great use, — some rules of his own that he says will improve me more in a day than a year's learning in the common way.
35 ページ - ... their merits, and of our acceptance of the same ; and to that end we do hereby render our royal thanks to that our County in the most public and lasting manner we can devise, commanding copies hereof to be printed and published, and one of them to be read in every church and chapel therein, and to be kept for ever as a record in the same; that as long as the history of these times and of this nation shall continue, the memory of how much that County hath merited from us and our crown, may be...