A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between 1763 and 1787, Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, M.a, Volume 4Rivington, 1809 |
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Page 50 - ... is the very castle once haunted by Hamlet's ghost, but of this I have no positive assurance ; though, as it is at Elsineur, I think such an imagination as yours and mine may fairly enough make out the rest. In the letter, which the King of Denmark wrote to ours, he only mentioned, in general terms, that the queen had behaved in a manner which obliged him to imprison her, but that from regard to his Majesty her life should be safe.
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Page 85 - ... violence beat upon him. In all the conversations upon his misfortunes to which I have been witness, I do not recollect ever to have heard him utter a single murmur or complaint. It pleased God to try him in the " furnace of affliction," and like gold he came out with the greater purity and the brighter lustre.