The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1862 |
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Page 401 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour!
Page 22 - PRAISE the LORD, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God : yea a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful. 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem : and gather together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart : and giveth medicine to heal their sickness.
Page 211 - IMS so much outacted him it is time for him to leave the stage;" but that does her too much honour ; one should search the jails amongst the perjured notorious offenders for a paralell to such an infamous character. She has, however, escaped the searing of her hand, and is turned over for condign punishment to her conscience ! It was astonishing how she was able to speak for three-quarters of an hour, which she did yesterday, but it was labour in...
Page 189 - Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd's history would make as large a volume as Madame de Kingston's. She sent her lawyer a brief of which he could not make head or tail. He went to her for one more clear : ' And do you imagine,' said she, ' that I will trust you, or any attorney in England, with the truth of my story ? Take your brief, meet me in the Old Bailey, and I will ask you the necessary questions.
Page 310 - ... never to be neglected by the most opulent. The friend at your elbow (Lady Propriety) is the best frisseur in the world, and the most reasonable. She understands every part of dress to admiration. She will never suffer you to wear your hat with one edge to touch your nose, and the other edge perpendicularly in the air...
Page 534 - Hillsborough, on being taxed with negligence, affirmed that the Cabinet had the day before empowered Lord North to take precautions ; but two Justices that were called denied having received any orders. Colonel Heywood, a very stout man, and luckily a very cool one, told me he had thrice been collared as he went by the Duke's order to inquire what was doing in the other House ; but though he was not suffered to pass he reasoned the mob into releasing him, — yet, he said, he never saw so serious...
Page 380 - Mr. Smelt, whose character sets him above most men and does great honour to the King, who calls him his friend, and has drawn him out of his solitude (the life he had chosen), to enjoy his conversation every leisure moment. These, with all their attendants in rank and file, made a splendid figure as they drove through the park and round the court, up to the house. The day was as brilliant as could be wished, the 12th of August, the Prince of Wales's birthday. The Queen was in a hat, and...
Page 362 - Pitt says yc owner of y house deals in angles, from gratitude to ye memory of her dear spouse. L . . y Andover's heart's at ease long before this, I hope. L . . d Suffolk's recovery is wonderfull. I wish it may last, for her sake.
Page 380 - Italian nightgown of purple lutestring trimmed with silver gauze. She is both graceful and genteel ; the dignity and sweetness of her manners, the perfect propriety of everything she says or does, satisfies everybody she honours with her distinction, so much that beauty is not wanting to make her perfectly agreeable, and though age and my long retirement from Court made me feel timid on being called to make my appearance, I soon found myself perfectly at ease.
Page 361 - Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone, Mrs. Walsingham, Mrs. Barbauld, Garrick, and Dr. Johnson are then enumerated. Mrs. Delany's name is thus introduced — " Delany shines, in worth serenely bright, Wisdom's strong ray, and virtue's milder light ; And she who bless'd the friend, and grac'd the page Of Swift, still lends her lustre to our age : Long, long protract thy light, 0 star benign ! Whose setting beams with added brightness shine!