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共 22 段- Popular amongst his schoolfellows, Horace formed friendships
- What was more to his honour still, was Sir Robert's preserva
- Stay awhile: we have not done with sacrilege yet; worse thin
- In spite of all his infirmities, Horace Walpole took no care
- Hénault was for many years deaf; and, during the whole of hi
- George Augustus was born on the 11th of August, 1719. Walpol
- Selwyn's political jokes were the delight of Bellamy's! He s
- The only real product of these united labours was a volume o
- The fame of 'The School for Scandal' was a substantial one f
- Such are a few of his well-remembered replies in the House;
- The Prince, Lord Surrey, and Sheridan were in the habit of s
- Perhaps the bitter thought struck him, that he had _not_ led
- The founder of the noble house of Brummell, the grandfather
- His effeminacy was also shown in his dislike to field-sports
- The drivellings of old age are no fit subject for ridicule,
- and in Hook's day the substitute of 'heavy teas' was not inv
- On another occasion he incurred the displeasure of the gover
- This strange spendthrift married a Miss Olier, a daughter of
- Mackintosh had not quitted Edinburgh when Sydney Smith reach
- In addition to these troubles and risks, there was an enemy
- Nothing amused him so much as the want of perception of a jo
- Posterity thinks differently: a knowledge of a man's associa