Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,Vicesimus Knox Charles Dilly., 1790 - Всего страниц: 798 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 100
Стр. xi
... extremely popular . They have passed through many editions . Their wit , vivacity , and frankness , render them more pleafing than fome more modern and more exact compofitions . Many celebrated Letters , more correct and finished , have ...
... extremely popular . They have passed through many editions . Their wit , vivacity , and frankness , render them more pleafing than fome more modern and more exact compofitions . Many celebrated Letters , more correct and finished , have ...
Стр. 11
... extremely glad if Damafippus fhould continue in the refo- ion of taking thefe figures off my hands : for , to own the plain truth , I have no fort of inclination to them my- feif . As you were not apprized of my intentions , you have ...
... extremely glad if Damafippus fhould continue in the refo- ion of taking thefe figures off my hands : for , to own the plain truth , I have no fort of inclination to them my- feif . As you were not apprized of my intentions , you have ...
Стр. 13
... extremely fa miliar to you and thofe I am fpeaking of , had not any peculiar novelty to re- commend them . The laft day's fport was compofed entirely of elephants , which , though they made the common people ftare indeed , did not feem ...
... extremely fa miliar to you and thofe I am fpeaking of , had not any peculiar novelty to re- commend them . The laft day's fport was compofed entirely of elephants , which , though they made the common people ftare indeed , did not feem ...
Стр. 14
... extremely glad , if I have fucceeded ; if not , I fhall have the fatisfaction however to think , that you will for the future be more in- clined to give us your company on thefe occafions , than to rely on my letters for your amufement ...
... extremely glad , if I have fucceeded ; if not , I fhall have the fatisfaction however to think , that you will for the future be more in- clined to give us your company on thefe occafions , than to rely on my letters for your amufement ...
Стр. 19
... extremely obliged to you for fhewing him , that you place to your own account thofe many dangerous win- ter - voyages he formerly undertook upon mine . Farewel . LETTER To Trebatius . XXI . months , it was because , after you were ...
... extremely obliged to you for fhewing him , that you place to your own account thofe many dangerous win- ter - voyages he formerly undertook upon mine . Farewel . LETTER To Trebatius . XXI . months , it was because , after you were ...
Содержание
1 | |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
8 | |
9 | |
10 | |
239 | |
240 | |
277 | |
287 | |
293 | |
380 | |
423 | |
469 | |
26 | |
38 | |
44 | |
49 | |
67 | |
71 | |
86 | |
93 | |
104 | |
106 | |
110 | |
113 | |
117 | |
124 | |
129 | |
157 | |
163 | |
169 | |
190 | |
201 | |
208 | |
213 | |
214 | |
220 | |
229 | |
232 | |
516 | |
525 | |
548 | |
549 | |
550 | |
551 | |
553 | |
555 | |
555 | |
558 | |
559 | |
560 | |
562 | |
563 | |
564 | |
565 | |
566 | |
569 | |
570 | |
571 | |
572 | |
574 | |
575 | |
579 | |
634 | |
635 | |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Elegant Epistles, Or, a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters Vicesimus Knox Недоступно для просмотра - 2013 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
abfence affairs affection affiftance affured agreeable bufinefs Cæfar cafe caufe Cicero circumftance confefs confiderable converfation deferve defign defire difpofition diftinguished eftate efteem endeavour exprefs extremely fafe faid fame Farewel fatire fatisfaction favour feems felf fenate fend fenfible fent fentiments ferve fervices feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince fincere fingle fingular fituation folicit fome fometimes foon fpirit friendship ftill ftudies fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fure give himſelf honour hope houfe ibid imagine inftance intereft intreat juft kind laft leaft lefs Lepta LETTER likewife Lucius Lucceius manner means mind moft moſt muft muſt myfelf obferve occafion orator paffed perfon perfuaded philofophical pleafing pleaſure poffible Pompey prefent preferve purpoſe racter reafon received recommend refpect Roman Rome Tacitus Terentia thefe themfelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion truth ufual uſe villa whofe yourſelf
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 240 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Стр. 193 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. But let not your grace...
Стр. 194 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Стр. 337 - ... yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Стр. 468 - ... lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...
Стр. 474 - Now, sir,' continued Mr. Lintot, 'in return for the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdowne will be brought to the bar or not?' I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — 'That may be,' replied Mr. Lintot; 'but by G if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.
Стр. 294 - You writ me lately for a footman, and I ' think this bearer will fit you : I know he can run ' well, for he hath run away twice from me, but he ' knew the way back again ; yet, though he hath a ' running head as well as running heels (and who will ' expect a footman to be a stayed man ?) I would ' not part with him were I not to go post to the
Стр. 193 - ... enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Стр. 472 - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: 'Now, damn them! What if they should put it into the newspaper how you and I went together to Oxford?
Стр. 474 - Now, sir, (continued Mr. Lintot,) in return to the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdown will be brought to the bar or not?" I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — " That may be," replied Mr. Lintot, " but by G , if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.