Lord Beaconsfield's Letters, 1830-1852J. Murray, 1887 - 262 стор. |
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Сторінка 59 - ... rich and waving woods and sparkling cultivation would have been misplaced. Except Athens, I had never witnessed any scene more essentially impressive. I will not place this spectacle below the city of Minerva. Athens and the Holy City in their glory must have been the finest representations of the beautiful and the sublime...
Сторінка 121 - Peter, and in the other — (the shouts that followed drowned the conclusion of the sentence) . Let them see the philosophical prejudice of man.
Сторінка 73 - by particular desire,' to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt, and a rattle; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered 'that I had no doubt of it.
Сторінка 123 - Astonish them by speaking on subjects of detail. Quote figures, dates, calculations, and in a short time the House will sigh for the wit and eloquence which they all know are in you...
Сторінка 75 - I can easily conceive that he could be very disagreeable, but yesterday he was in a most condescending mood and unbent with becoming haughtiness. I reminded him by my dignified familiarity both that he was ex-Minister and I a present Radical.
Сторінка 76 - May 26, 1832. I received your letter yesterday, and the note you enclosed was from Beckford, to whom I had sent a copy of 'Contarini.' His answer is short, but very courteous. It commences with four exclamations. ' How wildly original ! How full of intense thought! How awakening! How delightful ! ' This really consoles one for Mr.
Сторінка 71 - I have pledged myself, you must come ' ; so he led me up to a very sumptuous personage, looking like a fullblown rose, Mrs. Gore. Albany Fonblanque,3 my critic, was in the room, but I did not see him. . . . The Mr. Hawkins who made a wonderful speech, and who, although he squinted horribly, was the next day voted a Cupidon, and has since lost his beauty by a failure, and many others, whom in this hurry I cannot recall — Charles Villiers, Henry Ellis, &c.
Сторінка 26 - Bradenham, 2 about dogs and horses, orchards, gardens, who calls, where you go, who my father sees in London, what is said. This is what I want. Never mind public news, except it be private in its knowledge, or about private friends. I see all newspapers sooner or later. I shall write from here overland. I forgot to say I wrote from Falmouth. I did not know that I had been long on the Rock. They all complain of my angel visits. I fear Ponsonby is not at Malta. I am obliged for the letter to Hankey....
Сторінка 74 - Take care, my good fellow, I lost the most beautiful •woman in die world by smoking. It has prevented more liaisons than the dread of a duel or Doctors' Commons.' Then I replied, ' You have proved that it is a very moral habit.
Сторінка 26 - It is all the sun. Do not think that it is society or change of scene. This, however occasionally agreeable, is too much for me and even throws me back. It is when I am quite alone and quite still that I feel the difference of my system, that I miss old aches, and am conscious of the increased activity and vitality and expansion of my blood.