Identifier: internationallib09garn (find matches)
Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thousand melancholy circum-stances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of blackcloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of afather could not be pleasant,—his leg extremely bad, yet forcedto stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distortedwith his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one ofhis eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which,in all probability, he must himself so soon descend: think howunpleasant a situation! He bore it all with a firm and unaf-fected countenance. This grave scene was fully contrasted bythe burlesque Duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of cryingthe moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back ina stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a smellingbottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of hishypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spywho was or was not there, spying with one hand, and moppingbis eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching
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HORACE WALPOLE LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE. 3901 cold; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat,felt himself weighed down, and turning round, found it wasthe Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train, to avoid thechill of the marble. It was very theatric to look down intothe vault, where the coffin lay, attended by mourners withlights. Clavering, the groom of the bedchamber, refused tosit up with the body, and was dismissed by the Kings order. I have nothing more to tell you, but a trifle, a very trifle.The King of Prussia has totally defeated Marshal Daun. This,which would have been prodigious news a month ago, is nothingto-day; it only takes its turn among the questions, Who is tobe groom of the bedchamber? what is Sir T. Robinson to have ? I have been to Leicester fields to-day; the crowd was immod-erate. I dont believe it will continue so. Good night. Yours ever. Concerning a Particular Friend, and Friendship in General. TO JAjNIES CRAWFORD, ESQ. Paris, March 6, 1766. Y

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