 I have lost my oldest friend and acquaintance, G. Selwyn," writes Walpole to Miss Berry : " I really loved him, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities.  Blackwood's Magazine - Էջ 1711844Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 էջ
...as well as yourselves : and it is not them I regret ; or rather, in fact, I outlive all my friends ! Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow; and no wonder Ucalegon feels it!1 He 1 This celebrated wit and amiable man died on the 25th of January, has left about thirty thousand... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 590 էջ
...as well as yourselves : and it is not Ihem I regret; or rather, in fact, I outlive all my friends ! Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow ; and no wonder Ucalegon feels it !* He has left about thirty thousand pounds to Mademoiselle Fagniani;* twenty of which, if she has... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 632 էջ
...misfortunes, though they can be so but for a short time, are very sensible to the old ; but him I really loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities. Lady Cecilia Johnstone-was here yesterday. I said much for you, and she as much to you. The Gunnings... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 440 էջ
...misfortunes, though they can be so but for a short time, are very sensible to the old ; but him I really loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities." Again, Walpole writes a few days afterwards, — " Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow ; and no wonder... | |
 | 1844 - 822 էջ
...was yesterday at the extremity. Those misfortunes, though they can be so but for a short time, aro very sensible to the old : but him I loved, not only for his infinite wit, but fur a thousand good qualities." He writes a few days after, " Poor Selwyn is gone ; to my sorrow ;... | |
 | 1844 - 702 էջ
...though they can be so but • for a short time, are very sensible to the old ; but him I really •« loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good « qualities.' Again—' Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow ; and ' no wonder Ucalegon feels it !' The heartlessness... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 էջ
...misfortunes, though they can be so but ' for a short time, are very sensible to the old; but him I really ' loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good ' qualities.' Again — ' Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow ; and ' no wonder Ucalegon feels it ! ' The heartlessness... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 էջ
...thousand good qualities."* To this affectionate memorial the writer adds, two or three days subsequently, "Poor Selwyn is gone to my sorrow, and no wonder Ucalegon feels it." The sad event occurred at his town house, Cleveland row, St. James's. He had made every necessary preparation... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 էջ
...but him I really loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities," Again—" Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow; and no wonder Ucalegon feels it!" The heartlessness of the French set, to which Selwyn and Walpole belonged, is beyond a question. Madame... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 էջ
...misfortunes, though they can be so but for a short time, are very sensible to the old ; but him I really loved, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities," Again — " Poor Selwyn is gone, to my sorrow ; and no wonder Ucalegon feels it ! " The heartlessness... | |
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