... or August, 18731 My Dear Houghton I could not well excuse myself for Lady Hardy and her daugh- ter were quite alone and were going to a place which they had not visited before so that they did not know the route very well and all that- Very sorry but know you would not have had me...

.... I Fun Office 80 Fleet Street E. C. Nov 70 Dear Locker. Mr. Millar [sic] is a pilgrim from the other “rim” of America-San Francisco-a literary man, & contributor to “The Overland Monthly.” He is much interested in many...

..., and on May 7, 1880, Browning was provoked to reply : 19 Warwick Crescent, W. Dear Miss Mundella, What can I say-how thank you enough for your exquisite flowers and even more valued words and wishes? You know how I match you in the second par...

... to provide sufficient discussion of a poem which, despite its cleverness and lyric charm, obviously lacks the satiric strength of Dryden’s better known works. In 1956, how- ever, Bruce Dearing published a short note2 in which he drew attention to the difficulties present in the line, “Thy Chase...

... further about the matter to Crabb Robinson, in a manner reminiscent of the duel he once had proposed to fight with Lord Byron: [Landor] says that Willis has written to him, Dear Sir, hoping he would acquit him of all intention to keep his manuscripts ; he has sent them to Lady...

..., I say. Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate. Life every man holds dear, but the dear man Ehlds honour far more precious-dear than life. (25-28) Andromache sends for Priam to plead with stubborn Hector. Not only has...

... Friends are false and if you can say the same of me do so as privately or as publicly as you like.”18 On the next day, Cable sent an explanatory letter: Dear Clemens : Telegd. you last even’g & have not got reply; but without waiting to see if you are replying by letter, I write...

... of the month. But see Chamhcrs, op. czt., p. 8s. 4 Chamhers, up. (-if, p. 88. 459 460 Tlzoiuas More atid John Cold “No annoyance that I could suffer is to be compared with the loss of your conipanionship which is so dear to me. It has been my cus...

... not, for instance, want “My deare, then I will serve” to have a sexual meaning (although such a meaning is, as I am sure he knows, well established in the period). 16 Here again, as with the issue of food, Kunin’s own lack of interest in the topic keeps him from responding to some dimensions of resonance...

... forth thy sword, and let it tell, What strokes, what dreadfull stoure it stird this day. Frederick M.Padelf ord 467 VI.12.3.7. Good Sir Bellamoure had endured many a dreadfull stoure In bloudy battell for a Ladie deare. VII...

... the panniers clatter’d, the more they clatter’d the faster he ran.” But after laugh- ing, Newton turned serious, as was his way. “The close of the story made me serious. How many hundred miles has my Dear rid behind me in time past, without breaking a collar bone. Mercy guarded our steps.” Cowper...

... to a Husband, till it be an injury to our honours; so that a Woman of honour looses no honour with a private Person; and to say truth- DAINTY[afart to SQUEAMISH]. so the little Fellow is grown a pri- vate Person-with her- LADYFIDGET. But still my dear, dear Honour. (p. 284...

... us, that we are not out of the reach of misfortune; and to reduce us to a better reliance, than that we have hitherto presumptuously made? . . . Strange, I niay well call it; for don’t you see, my dear, that we seem all to be impelzed, as it were, by a perverse fate, which...

... is for me an inner vocation, a feast, a joy, a great and noble task towards which turn all my love and all my zeal”;3 or, with reference to his wife’s artistic endeavor, “a single word from you, dear Master, will decide her future and without it she will grope forward like a blind woman And yet...

... quarto is addressed to “John Britton, Esq. / 10 Tavistock Place / Russel Square.” The com- plete text of the letter, here published for the first time, follows : Dear Sir, I am glad that you approve my speculations, and thank you very sincerely for the mark of your approbation. I did not know...

... Livia, twinkletoes. And sure he was the queer old buntz too, Dear Dirty Dumpling, foostherfather of fingalls and dotthergills. Gammer and gaffer we’re all their gangsters. Hadn’t he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her seven crutches. And every crutch its seven hues. And each hue...

... against the English Nation in the East-Indies . London . Davenant William . 1658 . The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru . London . Dearing Vinton A. 1995 . “ Commentary to Amboyna .” In The Works of John Dryden, Volume 12: Amboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe , edited...

... [1836 or 1837?] My dear Fanny, William brought me your list of Commissions yesterday just as I was setting out to a haymaking party at Waterloo,16 and said they must go out that evening by the mail. I stated my case to him, but for some time he was strict upon the point, and I hope you...

...), 364 Tltoinas A. Kirby 365 lowing apparently hitherto unpublished letter, written in 1873 by FitzGerald to a not exactly identifiable correspondent :5 Market hill : Woodbridge. June 19. [ 18731 Dear...

..., for I know I am not clever. I always knew that. I can remember, when I was a very little girl indeed, I used to say to my doll, when we were alone together, “Now, Dolly, I am not clever, you know very well, and you must be patient with me, like a dear!” . . . My dear...