The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1862 |
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Page 465 - Anne Luttrell, daughter of Lord Irnham, afterwards Earl of Carhampton and widow of Christopher Horton, Esq., of Catton Hall, Derbyshire. Horace Walpole mentions her as "Mrs Horton," sister to "Colonel Luttrell, whom the Court crammed into the House of Commons instead of Wilkes.
Page 284 - Bateman. As to Mrs. Garrick, the more one sees her, the better one must like her ; she seems never to depart from a perfect propriety of behaviour, accompanied with good sense and gentleness of manners ; and I cannot help looking on her as a wonderful creature, considering all circumstances GARRICK AND WALPOLE.
Page 11 - I can convey it to you let me know, and I will certainly send it as soon as I can get a proper person to choose it for me ; but as I do not at present learn to play upon the clavicord I do not know justly who to get to choose one, and I am not any judge myself, but you may depend upon my doing the best I can. I desire my love to my brother, and hope I shall hear from him soon. I have seen your tutor Mr. Smallwell, he was to wait on Aunt Delany ; I think he seems a very good sort of man ; I heard...
Page 573 - K's will, but the Dss was so ill (of grief), that she cou'd not bear to have it open'd ! At length the D. of N. said he cou'd wait no longer and appointed last Friday for Mr. Medows3 to meet him at Kingston (alias Chudleigh House). He went ; his sons remain'd at the outside of the gate walking to and fro with their cousin 1 The Hon. Robert...
Page 578 - ... ascribe to Him. To form worthy notions of the Supreme Being, as far as we are capable, is essential to true religion and morality; for as it is our duty to imitate those qualities of the Divinity which are imitable by us, so is it necessary we should know what they are, and fatal to mistake them. Can those who think of God with servile dread and terror, as of a gloomy tyrant, armed with almighty power to torment and destroy them, be said to believe in the true God...
Page 158 - Since, if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair distrusts the healing.
Page 489 - It vexes one to think that a poem of such delicacy and dignity should be prostituted, and the charms of virgins represented by the abandoned nymphs of Drury Lane. Such a poem would have been represented in days of yore by the youthfull part of the Royal family, or those of the first rank. Indeed, in these our days (save our own Royal Family), it would be difficult to find representatives suited to such virtuous and refined characters ! Mr.
Page 204 - I charge you to do what is most agreeable to and safest for you, ever assured of being received with open arms and a warm heart. I pity those you are to leave, and must ever feel true gratitude for their kind care and attention to my precious child. Court dined with me to-day, and is very well. Bernard was engaged. Miss H. Thynne is better, but poor Lady Weymouth has been very miserable about her. I dined yesterday with our little plump Montague and her son ; you were much inquired after, and your...
Page 284 - I can't well describe it, but on the whole it has the air of belonging to a genius. We had an excellent dinner nicely served, and when over went directly into the garden — a piece of irregular ground sloping down to the Thames, very well laid out, and planted for shade and shelter; and an opening to the river which appears beautiful from that spot, and from Shakespeare's Temple...
Page 593 - Wimbleton church, between church and church, as quietly and uncrowded as if John and Joan had tied the Gordian knot. Don't think because I have made use of the word