 Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with the latter, who contradicts and quarrels with all mankind, in order to obtain their admiration. I think both his means and his end below such a...  The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright]. - Seite 110von Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 Seiten
...likes me no better than if she had seen me." Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...affectations. But great parts seem like high towers erected on high mountains, the more exposed to every wind, and readier to tumble. Charles Townshend is blown... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 Seiten
...likes me no better than if she had seen me." Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...affectations. But great parts seem like high towers erected on high mountains, the more exposed to every wind, and readier to tumble. Charles Townshend is blown... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 Seiten
...greatest loss they have had since Harry IV. Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England." I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...had talents like his, I should despise any suffrage befow my own standard, and should blush to owe any part of my fame to singularities and affectations.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 Seiten
...likes me no better than if she had seen me." Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England." I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...think both his means and his end below such a genius. IT I had talents like his, I should despise any suffrage below my own standard, and should blush to... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 Seiten
...is the first ; yet sensible ; but affects to use "Johnson's hard words in conversation.* We had a " having engaged with the latter, who contradicts and...affectations. But great parts seem like high towers erected on high mountains, ' ' the more exposed to every wind, and readier to tumble. Charles Townshend " is... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 366 Seiten
...letter from Paris to Lady Harvey, in 1766: —"Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...part of my fame to singularities and affectations." Walpole committed a mistake in not seeing that the singularities and affectations were an essential... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...letter from Paris to Lady Harvey, in 1766:— "Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...part of my fame to singularities and affectations." Walpole committed a mistake in not seeing that the singularities and affectations were an essential... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...the first ; yet sensible ; but affects to use " Johnson's hard words in conversation.* We had a 1 ' having engaged with the latter, who contradicts and...obtain their admiration. I think both his means and hia end below ' ' such a genins. If I had talents like his, I should despise any suffrage below my... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 552 Seiten
...likes me no better than if she had seen me." Mr. Hume carries this letter and Rousseau to England. I wish the former may not repent having engaged with...affectations. But great parts seem like high towers erected on high mountains, the more exposed to every wind, and readier to tumble. Charles Townshend is blown... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 Seiten
...Lady Ilervey, in 17li6: — 'Mr. Hum* carries this letter ami Bousseau to England. I wish the fonuer may not repent having engaged with the latter, who...part of my fame to singularities and affectations.' \\alpole committed a mistake in not seeing that the singiilarities and affectations were an essential... | |
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