Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones |
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acquainted admiration affection affectionate Alexander Pope Anne Boleyn answer beauty believe character Charles comfort Countess of Bute dear death desire Duke Earl Edmund Burke endeavour England English esteem father favour feel following letter fortune France French friendship George Crabbe give grace hand happy hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole HORATIO NELSON humble servant Isaac D'Israeli James Boswell John John Evelyn kind King Lady live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lordship Madam Majesty manner matter mean mind nature never obliged opinion passion person pleased pleasure poems poet poor Pope pray present Queen reason received Samuel Johnson sent sure tell thee things thought tion told true truth unto virtue William William Cowper wish word write written young
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