| 单词 | Horace Walpole |
| 例句 | There were virtuosos in the form, like Horace Walpole. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But then life is, after all, a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel, to borrow from Horace Walpole. Theater Review: ‘Le Cid’ at the Theater of the Church of Notre Dame 2013-01-21T23:51:21Z The result is not at all what you’d expect, but would have made even that old Gothic Horace Walpole happy. Review | Fairies and their magical worlds have captivated us for centuries. Here are some of the books that did it best. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, was many things. Tour one of England’s most extraordinary Gothic Revival mansions 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z "There is the devil to pay in Denmark," wrote Horace Walpole. A Royal Affair: one to remember 2012-07-06T08:53:50Z On the outskirts of London, copies of beds auctioned off nearly two centuries ago are being installed at Strawberry Hill, home of the writer Horace Walpole. Museums Are Trying New Things in the Bedroom 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In the mid-18th century, English earl Horace Walpole constructed Strawberry Hill, a sprawling Gothic Revival castle on the banks of the Thames. Explore London’s Strawberry Hill Through 3-D-Printed Models 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And nearby, “The Ladies Waldegrave,” by the renowned British portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, advertises the charms of three marriageable sisters, all grandnieces of the writer Horace Walpole. Masterpieces From Scotland Visit the Frick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Honour began contributing reviews and articles to The Times of London and The Connoisseur magazine and wrote “Horace Walpole,” a study of the 18th-century politician and man of letters, published in 1957. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Horace Walpole, a writer, historian and collector, was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister. Special Report: Museums: The Gothic Pioneer Horace Walpole Finally Gets His Due 2011-03-22T17:00:08Z The trust is completing a $13.5 million building restoration and has helped organize an exhibition, “Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill,” on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London through July 4. Antiques: Horace Walpole?s London Home Is Restored 2010-04-15T21:29:00Z Kent, as Horace Walpole said, "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden". Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z Kent was not really much of a painter, despite his Italian training; the writer and art historian Horace Walpole rated his efforts “below mediocrity,” an assessment that rings true today. Art Review: ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain’ at Bard 2014-01-02T22:03:54Z The so-called Cellini bell, encrusted with live-cast lizards, grasshoppers, snails and foliage, once belonged to the 18th-century collector Horace Walpole, who ecstatically described it as “the uniquest thing in the world.” A Sleek Home at British Museum for Ferdinand’s Gift 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Horace Walpole applied ancestral coats of arms to his furniture partly out of insecurity; his family had wealth and power but not a stellar aristocratic lineage. Museums Are Trying New Things in the Bedroom 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill is at the V&A until 4 July; The Surreal House is at the Barbican until 12 September. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z In the 18th century, the critic Horace Walpole spoke of the pastoral landscape movement transforming grand estates such as Alnwick. A passionate gardener who cut his roots and wanders the world 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He was one of the initiators of the naturalistic English-style garden, and writer Horace Walpole called the park at Rousham “the most engaging of all Kent’s works,” playfully dubbing it Kentissimo. Designer Brian Sawyer Visits England's Stately Homes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and other masters of the romantic and horror genres set some of their most famous works in Italy. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z As Horace Walpole later wrote, “The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.” Perspective | Five myths about George Washington 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z And there are headlines and articles particularly when the Bengal famine breaks out in 1772 and people like Horace Walpole are writing, "We have out done the Spanish conquest of the Incas." What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z English politician and author Horace Walpole coined the term "serendipity" in 1754 in a letter to his friend Horace Mann, basing it on a Persian folktale, "The Three Princes of Serendip." The science of serendipity 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z He, in turn, might have been answering a call by Horace Walpole, a politician and writer fascinated by the pseudoscience of phrenology: studying skulls for clues to intelligence. Your Thursday Evening Briefing: Brussels, Radovan Karadzic, Argentina 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Paul Hentzner, a German tutor, visited England in 1598, and wrote a graphic account of his travels in the country, which were translated into English by Horace Walpole. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Among the many famous portraits of this year and the next was that of the Countess Waldegrave, Horace Walpole's beautiful niece Maria, afterwards Duchess of Gloucester. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Mr. Radcliffe and Horace Walpole are relegated to the land of dreams and shadows; give us vraisemblance to whet our blunted susceptibilities. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Horace Walpole, son of the great minister, wrote from Florence that the picture had "diverted him extremely," and that the likenesses were "admirable." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Hervey’s bitter account of court life and intrigues resembles in many points the memoirs of Horace Walpole, and the two books corroborate one another in many statements that might otherwise have been received with suspicion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z From 1771 to 1776 he acted as governor to two of the king’s sons, a “solemn phantom” as Horace Walpole calls him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z If truth were told, there are a hundred who commune with Pepys and Horace Walpole, to ten who find delight in Hume. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Chesterfield, Bolingbroke, Horace Walpole and others, bear witness to the fashion which prevailed. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z He found the heavy youth an insufferable bore, and he was soon, as his relation, Horace Walpole, relates, "thoroughly fatigued with the insipidity of his pupil." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Horace Walpole speaks of his “decorum and piety” and refers to him as a “perfect courtier,” but says that he had “too great propensity to heap emoluments on his children.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z At the Print Room in the British Museum there is also a very interesting set of sixteen designs for the series called “Industry and Idleness,” the majority of which formerly belonged to Horace Walpole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z His foibles are more to the taste of some of us than the affectations of Horace Walpole. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z He therefore warmly resents Wordsworth's remark about "that cold and false-hearted, frenchified coxcomb, Horace Walpole." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z One cannot deny that Horace Walpole did well to expose the absurd vagaries which were being perpetrated about his time under Dutch influences. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z But some of her friends found the writing too often modelled on Johnson’s, and Horace Walpole thought the personages spoke too uniformly in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Mrs. Greer, for instance, had Horace Walpole's Letters—which never failed. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z Horace Walpole, who had loved Houghton in his youth, himself wrote in after life a catalogue of these pictures and a description of the apartments in which they hung. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z What has Horace Walpole done except to give us a picture of his own disposition and incidentally of the world he lived in? The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z But, as Horace Walpole might say, "it is not peculiar to Mr Robinson to think in that manner." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z On a debate arising out of the Bill for the Encouragement and increase of Seamen, in 1740, Pitt is represented as attacking Mr. Horace Walpole for having ventured on a reference to his youth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Horace Walpole gives an amusing account of Kelly’s famous crystal, and of the useful part it played in a burglary committed at his house in Arlington Street in the spring of 1771. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z But Horace Walpole pronounced one of his pictures to be "in the style of Rubens, and by far the best landscape ever painted in England, and equal to the great masters." Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z His heart was won by a single sentence in one of Horace Walpole's letters: "I write to you as I think." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Horace Walpole said that it acted well, but read ill, though he could distinguish in it “strokes of Mr Bentley.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z —Horace Walpole speaks in many of his letters of the great benefit he had experienced from the use of bootikins in his attacks of gout. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z I came across his name in one of the volumes of Horace Walpole's letters. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Horace Walpole called him "extravagant, absurd, disgusting; in short, a Methodist parson in Bedlam." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z I have summered and wintered with Horace Walpole and he has never played me false; he has shown himself exactly as he is. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Here, to be sure, was nothing but what Horace Walpole used to call “the mob.” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Horace Walpole was violently hostile to Hardwicke, and his criticism, therefore, must be taken with extreme reserve. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z One of the difficulties of a life of Chatham lies in the rough notes of his speeches preserved by Horace Walpole. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Just or unjust, the world has never forgiven Horace Walpole for Chatterton’s misery. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Horace Walpole speaks slightingly of the earl, and says he and his mistress, Mary Anne Faulkner, “had sold every employment in his gift.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Horace Walpole's Postscript to his Tragedy will of course be known to most of your readers. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z For the earl, see also Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It is evident that Horace Walpole believed, prematurely, that the matter was settled early in January. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It is well for genius that there are souls in the world more sympathising, less worldly, and more indulgent, than those of such men as Horace Walpole.” Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Horace Walpole, writing more than twenty-five years later, never tired of mentioning the elaborate precautions he had taken to secure his correspondence against inspection. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Even Horace Walpole, who has misled so many with regard to Caxton, has expressed himself very forcibly on the value of real portraits. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z There is no sufficient ground for Horace Walpole’s charge that the fall of Sir Robert was brought about by Hardwicke’s treachery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Before that time she seems to have lived for a while at Twickenham; at least Horace Walpole speaks of her as a close neighbour. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The poems were submitted to competent antiquaries, and pronounced forgeries, whereupon Horace Walpole refused the boy’s application for help, at the same time reproving the attempted fraud in the most cold and cutting terms. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Indeed, it was so usual an occurrence that Horace Walpole tells us of a certain Lady Brown who, visiting here, always went provided with a purse full of brass tokens for the highwaymen. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z So extraordinary was the contrast between Goldsmith’s published works and the silly things which he said, that Horace Walpole described him as an inspired idiot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Horace Walpole published a print said to represent earl Rivers "introducing Caxton to Edward IV." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-03T02:00:27.757Z Horace Walpole, the elder, said, with some reason, that Pitt ought to be the last man in the House to complain of irregularity. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z She received many foreigners of distinction, Hume and Horace Walpole among others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z This passage occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole in 1737. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z The lives of Horace Walpole, of Thomas Warton, of Sir Walter Scott, and many others show how medieval literary studies may be nourished along with other kindred antiquarian tastes. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z At Eton he came to know Horace Walpole, travelled with him over Europe, after leaving Cambridge, until they quarrelled and each took his own path. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Yet, as Horace Walpole wrote at the time, 'Pitt had ridden in the whirlwind and directed the storm with abilities beyond the common reach of the genii of the tempest.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z “There was a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman’s Fields,” writes Horace Walpole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z We get a glance at him in one of Horace Walpole's letters, which, sparkling as it does with vanity, spite, and humour, is always pleasant. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Of Pearce Tempest, the engraver, the particulars collected by Vertue were so extremely slight that Horace Walpole merely enumerates him among those of whom nothing is known. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z It would be idle to compare them with those of Gray, Horace Walpole, Cowper, Byron or Fitzgerald, the acknowledged masters of that form of composition. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Not less humorous is the story preserved by Horace Walpole that the night the Hanoverian troops were voted, he summoned his German cook and ordered himself an exceptionally good supper. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z This is the very picture that Horace Walpole mentions as lost or abstracted from the collection at Windsor. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Horace Walpole when in Paris did his best to make this plain, but he failed. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Now let us hear Horace Walpole, antiquarian, virtuoso, dilettante, filosofastro—but, in truth, no poet. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z They were afterwards collected and published by Horace Walpole. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Old Horace Walpole had said that if one spoke against Hanover it might cause a rebellion. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Little was there in common between John Milton and Horace Walpole, or between a Cromwell and a Newcastle. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z "Horace Walpole said that no one before him could give to wood the airy lightness of a flower, and here he has given it to a stone." Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Does the reader remember Horace Walpole's pleasant description of a party of seers posting through the apartments of a show-place? Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z "Horace Walpole, the historian of the graphic arts." Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z Then followed an innuendo at old Horace Walpole which is immaterial and obscure. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It has been said by that brilliant satirist Horace Walpole, that every man has his price. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Thornton Wilder once compared me to Horace Walpole. Bookshelf: Views of New York, From Past to Present 2011-06-04T00:26:12Z Well might Horace Walpole say that the gallery at Althorpe was "endeared to the pensive spectator." Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Our grave chronicler, arrayed in his civic dignities, seems to have provoked the sensitiveness of the poetical critic in Warton, and the caustic wit in Horace Walpole. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Horace Walpole tells us that it was 'to the astonishment of all men.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The mischief began with the ridiculous medi�valism of Horace Walpole, which substituted amateur fancy for craftsmanship, and led in the following century to the complete extinction of any tradition whatever. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z He was succeeded by his nephew, Robert Horace Walpole, elder son of the Hon. Frederick Walpole. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z I am surprised that they escaped the notice of Horace Walpole, in his remarks on the decorations of Hardwicke. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z These hints and these localities were sufficient to irritate the vague curiosity of Surrey’s readers, and more particularly of our critical researchers, of whom Horace Walpole first ventured to explain the inexplicable. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Horace Walpole writing at the moment says:—'The German Sir Thomas Robinson was thought on for the Secretary's seals; but has just sense enough to be unwilling to accept them under so ridiculous an administration. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole aspired to do in English for his own time something like what Madame de S�vign� had done in French for hers. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Only one comparison is possible, and that is with Horace Walpole; but Wilde's was infinitely the richer intellect. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Horace Walpole has drawn a picture of him at that time which Lord Holland, Fox’s beloved and admiring nephew, speaking from his early recollections of his uncle, confesses has “some justification.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The chief legacies of that era to literature are the letters of Gray and Horace Walpole, and the life of the Dictator himself. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z One passage, at any rate, in his speech on the second motion, has been authentically preserved by Horace Walpole, for it was a compliment to himself. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Three years ago an American firm issued a princely edition of The Memoir of Horace Walpole, written by Austin Dobson. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z Franklin's eloquent mock humility inspired Horace Walpole to write: Sarcastic Sawney, swol'n with spite and prate, On silent Franklin poured his venal hate. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Several private presses were thus set up during the second half of the eighteenth century, the most famous of them being that of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z In Horace Walpole's quaint diction: "His letters are the best I ever saw, and had more novelty and wit." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Horace Walpole only says that Pitt shook his sister off in an unbecoming manner. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The volume contains facsimiles of Horace Walpole's handwriting, an etching of Lawrence's portrait, and a reproduction of the sketch of Strawberry Hill which illustrated the catalogue of 1774. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z I think there's a good deal of Horace Walpole's Inspired Idiocy in this world. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z One of his songs has been preserved by that delicious retailer of court-gossip, Horace Walpole; and I copy it from the Appendix to his Memoirs, without agreeing in his flippant censure. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z With that independence so characteristic of him, Gray and Horace Walpole are perhaps the only writers of the time who entirely escape the Johnsonian contagion. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Ann went on living at Kensington a somewhat frivolous life so far as we know anything about it, in intimate relations with Horace Walpole and his society. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z And like a lot of naturalists, he was ridiculed for it, notably by his friend Horace Walpole, who scoffed at Sloane’s fondness for “sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese!” Specimens: How Species Save Our Lives 2011-02-28T12:46:50Z Sir Horace Walpole had called her on one occasion "The American Beauty," and the sobriquet clung like a perfume to her. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z Apart from the novelists, the middle period of the 18th century is strong in prose writers: these include Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Horace Walpole's copy with notes in his handwriting. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Horace Walpole, who had come to hate all Pitts, confirms this in his sardonic way. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The first poem is dedicated to Horace Walpole, the second to Mrs. Vesey. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z WALPOLE, Horace.—Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries; including numerous original letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Such works as this last might well seem the outcome of Horace Walpole’s maxim: In this scribbling age “let those who can’t write, glean.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Horace Walpole said of Italy, that it was "a land in which the memory saw more than the eye," and in Canada hope must play the part of memory. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z We hear of her choice but miniature balls, and her band of French horns, which Horace Walpole enjoyed and described. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole's stately mansion of Strawberry Hill is not far off. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z MDCCLXXV. 4to, green morocco, back and sides richly tooled with brackets and floral festoons, the arms of Horace Walpole on both covers, gilt edges. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z But the most mundane of the letter writers, the most frivolous, and also the most pungent, is Horace Walpole, whose writings are an epitome of the history and biography of the Georgian era. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Horace Walpole has attempted to cast doubts upon the murder of the princes, and Sir C.R. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Lee, as we have seen, had attempted one, but, in spite of Horace Walpole's eulogy, he does not seem to have repeated the experiment. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z All glaziers condemn the work of the great Sir Joshua, and even most art critics agree with Horace Walpole that the painting of this large subject is “washy.” Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Presentation copy from Mrs. Wood to Horace Walpole, with a note from Elmsly inserted, stating that he had orders to "bind the copy in the most elegant manner." A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Horace Walpole, the fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole, was born at 17 Arlington Street on 24 September, 1717. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In spite of their dulness many of his works are of considerable value, although Horace Walpole questioned his “parts, taste and judgment.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Horace Walpole says of him that he had the figure of a spectre and the gesticulations of a puppet. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z We have Horace Walpole’s authority for saying that the oaths with which they were plentifully besprinkled were far more masculine than they can be said to have been tender. A Cursory History of Swearing He 'shone extremely at Louisbourg,'23 wrote Horace Walpole, and Walpole owns that he did not love him. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical To Sir Walter Scott, however, Horace Walpole’s castle was anything but an occasion for mirth. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The sneers of Horace Walpole, and the savage attack of Smollett in The Adventures of an Atom, are animated by personal or political spite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" So wrote Horace Walpole in the first enthusiasm produced by this effort. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I decline alluding to the Black Hole of Calcutta, but will take a specimen dug up by some sanitary gardener from Horace Walpole's letters. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Horace Walpole writes of him: 'Ambition, activity, industry, passion for the service, were conspicuous in Wolfe. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical Horace Walpole invited me to breakfast in his Gothic priory. Lives of Celebrated Women But her most remarkable correspondence, and perhaps her most interesting one, was with Horace Walpole, the most French of contemporary Englishmen. A Short History of French Literature There Horace Walpole's notes branch off into a tangle of headings and exclamations which it is difficult and unnecessary to unravel. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of newsmonger. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Horace Walpole writes of him as a man 'whose proud and sullen and contemptuous temper never suffered him to wait for thwarting his superiors till risen to a level with them. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical Horace Walpole thought himself honored in being permitted to print some of her pieces in the most lavish style of expense, at the press of Strawberry Hill. Lives of Celebrated Women Horace Walpole, for instance, found himself bored by it. A Short History of French Literature He won the heart of Horace Walpole, whose neighbour he was, until they quarrelled, as of course they were sure to do. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole perhaps rates Egremont’s talents too low when he says he “had neither knowledge of business, nor the smallest share of parliamentary abilities.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Similarly Horace Walpole, on hearing the bad news, wrote: 'We are on a sudden reading our book backwards.' A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical “He resembled,” writes Horace Walpole, with his usual sneer, “the Black Prince only in dying before his father.” The Night Side of London One of them is described by Horace Walpole, who graphically narrates how Lady Caroline Petersham stewed chickens over a lamp; and how Betty, the fruit girl, supped with them at a side table. Here and There in London One of these led to a quarrel with Horace Walpole, arising out of the dismissal of Conway, which produced a lengthy correspondence, still extant. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Reversing an earlier opinion Horace Walpole says Downshire was “a pompous composition of ignorance and want of judgment.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" A few days before the French treaty with America was known, Horace Walpole had written to Mason that the new levies "don't come, consequently they will not go." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 Horace Walpole was a man of the world and a courtier; he had quick natural parts and much acquired discernment. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Margaret also visited Miss Berry, the friend of Horace Walpole, long a celebrity, and at that time more than eighty years old. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Horace Walpole describes him epigrammatically in a letter written on the stirring day after Pelham's death: 'Pitt has no health, no party, and has what in this case is allowed to operate, the King's negative.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Both Akenside and Gray, before Wordsworth's time, had signalised his merit, in opposition to the dicta of Johnson and Horace Walpole. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) "He laboured them," says Horace Walpole, "as much as the Essay on Man, and as they were written to everybody they do not look as if they had been written to anybody." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Sheridan, Reynolds, Burke and Horace Walpole were among her constant visitors, and Mrs Siddons was her closest friend. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" His demeanor inspired Horace Walpole's famous epigram: The calm philosopher, without reply, Withdrew, and gave his country liberty. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 The day after the admission of Fox to the Cabinet, Newcastle despatched old Horace Walpole to Pitt to see if they could not come to terms. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole, in one of his papers in "The World," praises the following letter, written by Lady Pembroke in the reign of Charles II. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Another distinguished man of letters who never entered the bonds of matrimony was Horace Walpole. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Horace Walpole placed in his garden an urn to her memory, bearing an inscription, of which the last two lines run: “The comic muse with her retired And shed a tear when she expired.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Charles, the third duke, was born in it: it is his duchess, Lady Catherine Hyde, whose pranks are so frequently recorded in Horace Walpole's letters—"very clever, very whimsical, and just not mad." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. This seems to have raised an animated debate, memorable to us as having produced two fine speeches from Pitt, which Horace Walpole alone mentions, and of which he gives a spirited sketch. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The "tale of terror" had been started by Horace Walpole in the Castle of Otranto, and had, as we have seen, received a new and brilliant illustration in the hands of Beckford. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Horace Walpole, in his graceful way, called Goldsmith an inspired idiot. Oliver Goldsmith He died rich, and, according to Horace Walpole, built the Danish church in London, where he lies buried beside his second wife, to whom he erected a monument. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Horace Walpole says that, as a sort of advertisement, Gibbons carved an exquisite pot of flowers in wood, which stood on his window-sill, and shook surprisingly with the motion of the coaches that passed beneath. Old and New London Volume I Some years afterwards, Horace Walpole wrote of her that she had at times been out of her senses. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The reader may find a lively summary of the contents of these Papers in Horace Walpole’s account of his visit to Ragley, in his letter to George Montague, 20th August, 1758. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "Will Horace Walpole's tongue never stop scandal?" says your wife over your shoulder. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Horace Walpole said that as Bayes in The Rehearsal he made the part what it was intended to be, the burlesque of a great poet, whereas David Garrick degraded him to a “garretteer.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Two days before her execution she dressed in scarlet, and sat to Hogarth for a sketch, which Horace Walpole bought for £5. Old and New London Volume I Then she returned to England, virulent against her brother William, 'whose kindness to her,' says Horace Walpole, no biassed witness, 'has been excessive. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Horace Walpole wrote bitterly of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, that ‘His grace signed his own proper name—Thomas Cant.,’ which would certainly have read better as ‘Thomas Cantuar.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects "Miss Berry," the elder of the famous sisters who began by fascinating Horace Walpole and ended by charming Thackeray: "Donna Agnes" was the younger. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Have your researches into English literature ever chanced to lead you into reading Horace Walpole, I wonder? Miss Cayley's Adventures Once a year, says Horace Walpole, the good old man was carried to St. Paul's, to contemplate the glorious chef-d'œuvre of his genius. Old and New London Volume I The house, which was of considerable antiquity, had been, for my great-grandmother's benefit, modernized or Elizabethanized under the influence of Horace Walpole and Wyat. Memoirs of Life and Literature He was an early and intimate acquaintance of Horace Walpole’s, and they visited France together in 1765. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Horace Walpole made hits at both for reasons which we may call personal at second-hand, because the one was a friend of his sister-in-law and the other an enemy of his father. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Horace Walpole, however, uses it in the former sense: "Virette absconds, and has sent M. de Pecquigny word that he shall abscond till he can find a proper opportunity of fighting him." Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Horace Walpole speaks of her as one of the beauties of his time. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II This was less a coterie of fashion, and more entirely of intellect; and included Voltaire, D'Alembert, Hénault, and Horace Walpole when in Paris. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Singularity of opinion, vivacity of ridicule, and polished epigrams in prose, were the means by which Horace Walpole sought distinction. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Other letters, from Horace Walpole's downwards, may contain a panorama of life as brilliant as these give, or more brilliant. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing As Horace Walpole has been pronounced the most French of Englishmen, so may Francis Jeffrey be pronounced the most French of Scotchmen. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But whether or not Horace Walpole approved, it is certain that Mrs. Barbauld possessed to a full and generous degree a quality which is now less common than it was in her day. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen Horace Walpole testifies that at one of the most fashionable clubs, at Almack’s, they played only for rouleaux of two hundred and fifty dollars each. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series His great age and his good sense opened his eyes on himself; and Horace Walpole seems to have judged too contemptuously of Horace Walpole. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors At Eton he had as contemporaries Richard West, son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Horace Walpole, son of the triumphant Whig minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Select Poems of Thomas Gray The eighteenth century pseudo-classical abominations and sham Gothic, so favoured by Horace Walpole and his admirers, can be briefly dismissed. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them Dr. Aikin, whose estimate of his sister was very different from Horace Walpole's, occasionally reproached her for not writing more constantly. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen Soon afterwards, however, he accompanied Horace Walpole on a tour through France and Italy, and spent the greater part of two years in Paris, Rome, and Florence. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer There were times when Horace Walpole’s natural taste for his studies returned with all the vigour of passion—but his volatility and his desultory life perpetually scattered his firmest resolutions into air. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors In the spring of 1739, Gray was invited by Horace Walpole to accompany him as travelling companion in a tour through France and Italy. Select Poems of Thomas Gray It is not too much to say that this work, though not so ambitious in its style as Horace Walpole’s well-known ‘Correspondence,’ is much more interesting. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses He had borrowed that too from Horace Walpole, and only wanted notice. Love and Lucy Molloy’s “Court Life Below Stairs,” Waldegrave’s “Memoirs,” Horace Walpole’s writings, and many other volumes, will find ample corroboration of any statement made in this volume. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Was Horace Walpole a Socrates before his time? was he born that prodigy of indifference, to despise the secret object he languished to possess? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Horace Walpole in the last century wrote that Sheffield is "one of the foulest towns in England in the most charming situation." England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Since the publication of Horace Walpole’s Letters, no book of greater historical interest has seen the light than the Greville Memoirs. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The lively lady's anecdotage, dateless and confused, he could afford to despise as 'too void of method even for such a farrago,' as Horace Walpole said of it. James Boswell Famous Scots Series Oh, never mind that manuscript in its old French binding, and those exquisitely-wrought silver clasps, and dear old Horace Walpole’s books. A Walk from London to Fulham Horace Walpole was as willing to vilify the truly great, as to beautify deformity; when he imagined that the fame he was destroying or conferring, reflected back on himself. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The skeleton is said to have been seven feet long, and Horace Walpole got a lock of the king's hair. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Horace Walpole was under the impression that this was the Duke of Norfolk's picture, but the Hampton Court Catalogue claims the other one as the work of Streetes. Six Centuries of Painting Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Oxford, a famous English literary gossip, amateur, and wit. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Mrs. Brittania," remarked Horace Walpole, "orders her Senate to proclaim America a continent of cowards, and vote it should be starved, unless it would drink tea with her. The Siege of Boston Let us estimate the genius of Horace Walpole by analysing his talents, and inquiring into the nature of his works. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Horace Walpole himself, with all his sinister acidity, nowhere hits harder—we had almost said more bitterly—than does Lord Shelburne in this short sketch of his. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 He then essayed Horace Walpole, sending an ode on King Richard I. for his work "Anecdotes of Painting," and undertaking to furnish the names of several great painters, natives of Bristol. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Horace Walpole's informant, who stood close by, told him that she was "well-dressed, and not at all embarrassed." The Countess of Albany Another critic, Horace Walpole, was in two minds about balloons. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force It was the simplicity of childhood in Chatterton to imagine Horace Walpole could be a patron—but it is melancholy to record that a slight protection might have saved such a youth. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, ii. 181-231.Drama, real object of, i. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) He afterwards told Mrs. Orr that Milton, Quarles, Voltaire, Mandeville, and Horace Walpole were the authors in whom, as a boy, he particularly delighted. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Frances Hokes, who died in 1622, is represented in Greek costume, and Horace Walpole and others have highly praised this statue. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave would, however, be very serviceable—more so, I conceive, than the printed notes of M. Horace Walpole. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Fortunately, Horace Walpole saw the edifice before the contractor for the new building had cast his "desiring eyes" upon it, and has recorded his impressions in one of his letters. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Acknowledgment must also be made of a copious use of Horace Walpole’s Letters, the Chevalier Johnstone’s History of the Rebellion, and other eighteenth century sources of information concerning the incidents of the times. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 She christened Pope the "wicked wasp of Twickenham", and did not escape scatheless either from his attacks or from those of Horace Walpole. The Dukeries Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century, called Paris "the beastliest town in the universe." The Story of Paris The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of which thirty were sent to Paris. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Horace Walpole says—“My Lady Rochford desired me t’other day to give her a motto for a ruby ring,” so that at that time poesies were not confined to wedding rings. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture To the foregoing names may be added Edward Jerningham, the friend of Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, a dramatist as well as a poet; George Butt, the divine, and chaplain to George III.; Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Shortly after he had entered Lambert's service, his office was removed to Corn Street, and here, from the house delineated in our cut, he dated his first communication to Horace Walpole. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Horace Walpole tells an anecdote of a fine young French lady, a Madame de Choiseul. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Miss Glyn, or Mrs. Dallas, is playing Lady Macbeth at the theatre, and Mr. Shirley Brooks is giving two lectures at the Philosophical Society on the House of Commons and Horace Walpole. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 He was a contemporary therefore of Horace Walpole. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions The Yorkshire Philosophical Society own two unique specimens of sixteenth-century tapestry, formerly in the possession of Horace Walpole. Chats on Household Curios "We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is," laughed Horace Walpole, "for fear of missing one." History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 He was the dearest friend of Horace Walpole; and Walpole, who regarded politics in a personal light, exercised an unfortunate influence upon him. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Dr. Franklin, according to Horace Walpole, said “he would furnish Mr. Gibbon with materials for writing the History of the Decline of the British Empire.” Historical Essays No news from Horace Walpole—no reply to his repeated demands for his manuscripts—nothing but complaints of him at the office—nothing but indignities in the house where he lived as a servant. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century Several of the wealthier French refugees settled at Richmond, and there found Horace Walpole as charmer and friend. William Pitt and the Great War "For weeks," laughs Horace Walpole, "it rained gold boxes." History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 Conway was almost persuaded to follow their example, for Chatham treated him with haughty coldness, but he yielded to the urgent advice of his friend Horace Walpole, and remained in the ministry, uneasy and vacillating. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Horace Walpole's "Letters to Sir Horace Mann" give a minute account of his father's fall. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 She was one of Horace Walpole's pets at Strawberry Hill, his country-seat, when Gray visited him there. Old Valentines A Love Story Lord Byron was of opinion that people abused Horace Walpole for several sinister reasons, of which the first is represented to be that he was a gentleman. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Congreve, who really regarded himself as the peer of Shakespeare, was won, and sent Voltaire on his way with letters to Horace Walpole of Strawberry Hill. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Horace Walpole found his relative, Lord Hertford, engaged with his sons in loading muskets to be in readiness for the insurgents. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III London at large vacillated very much as Horace Walpole vacillated. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II The person selected for this somewhat delicate mission was Horace Walpole, Robert Walpole's only surviving brother. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Possibly Horace Walpole did not care about selling, but wished to measure his own intrinsic power as a novelist, for which purpose it was a better course to preserve his incognito. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Horace Walpole told this story, I suppose for the first time; he is good authority for the fact of circulation, but for nothing more. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Dashwood was a vulgar fool, who, as Horace Walpole said, with the familiarity and phrase of a fishwife, introduced the humors of Wapping behind the veil of the Treasury. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Horace Walpole, the Horace Walpole, Sir Robert's youngest son, made his first speech in the House of Commons, in defence of his father, against such a motion. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Horace Walpole says of him that he was simply a Jacobite priest. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Horace Walpole aspired to do in English for his own time something like what Madame de Sévigné had done in French for hers. Classic French Course in English Raynal failed to give better men than Horace Walpole the sense of power. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Horace Walpole described Hillsborough as nothing more than a pompous composition of ignorance and want of judgment. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III His son, Horace Walpole, gives a very touching picture of him in these decaying years. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Schaub was recalled; Horace Walpole was appointed ambassador in his place. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Horace Walpole, who was something of a Gallomaniac, makes repeated allusion to Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws," in letters of his written at about the time of the appearance of the book. Classic French Course in English Horace Walpole met him at “dull Holbach’s,” and the abbé at once began to tease him across the table as to the English colonies. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Lord Cutts was not merely a famous commander, but a poet, and his verses are quoted by Horace Walpole. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Among the best letters of this class may be reckoned the correspondence of Horace Walpole, Madame de Sévigné, the poets Gray and Cowper, Lord Macaulay, Lord Byron, and Charles Dickens. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Horace Walpole declares him to be superior in one set of qualities to his father. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Horace Walpole expressed his opinion to the effect that virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favourite pursuits. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting No allusion was made to the subject during my visit of last week, and indeed the conversation was chiefly on Stuart Papers, Horace Walpole, &c. &c. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents Macaulay censures the following as a solecism: 'It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill press produced some thirty works from 1757 to 1789, in editions varying from fifty to six hundred copies. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Horace Walpole said of him many years after that, "without the particular features of any Stuart, the Chevalier has the strong lines and fatality of air peculiar to them all." A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Horace Walpole, referring to James West's sale in 1773, says: 'Mr. West's books are selling outrageously. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting They have preferred the evidence of Horace Walpole to that of their own senses. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation A letter writing faculty has immortalized more than one English author, Horace Walpole for example, who had this in common with Anna Seward, that he had the bad taste not to like Dr. Johnson. Immortal Memories His taste in landscape gardening was honoured with the approbation of Horace Walpole, and he spent £1,000 upon a grotto, which incurred the ridicule of Johnson. Obiter Dicta Second Series Horace Walpole has left a description of King George which is worth citation. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I One of his schoolfellows was the famous Horace Walpole. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Another of their resorts was Devonshire House, which Horace Walpole pronounced "good and plain as the Duke of Devonshire who built it." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography You know what a superb picture of eighteenth century life has been presented to us in the nine volumes of correspondence we have by Horace Walpole. Immortal Memories Horace Walpole, the coxcomb of literature, smiled at him contemptuously from his gilded carriage. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Horace Walpole, the brother of Robert, was at his own request recalled from Paris. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "There has been nothing of note in Parliament," wrote Horace Walpole, "but one slight day on the American taxes." Beginnings of the American People This steeple has been described by Horace Walpole as a masterpiece of absurdity. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London Horace Walpole=233= gave the news that "Dr. Franklin, at the age of seventy-two or seventy-four, and at the risk of his head, had bravely embarked on board an American frigate." Benjamin Franklin "The quarrel between Gray and me," said Horace Walpole, "arose from his being too serious a companion." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 This was written while Horace Walpole was still Ambassador at the French Court. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "We look upon America as at our feet," wrote Horace Walpole. Beginnings of the American People But a certain contempt for the professional writer is becoming characteristic, even of men like Horace Walpole, who have a real taste for literature. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Strawberry Hill reminds you of witty, keen-sighted Horace Walpole, and his gossiping chit-chat concerning wrangling princes, feeble-minded ministers, and all the other imbecilities of the last century. She and I, Volume 1 Horace Walpole was a virtuoso in Gothic art, and in his castle, at Strawberry Hill, he made a collection of ancient armor, illuminated MSS., and bric-a-brac of all kinds. Brief History of English and American Literature Horace Walpole the younger describes the event by a happy phrase as "Compton's evaporation." A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Adieu, my dear brother, Believe me, ever most affectionately yours, W. W. G. I think our distant projects for the Government of Ireland, are something like Horace Walpole's "Butterfly and Rose." Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 Horace Walpole in his essay upon gardening remarks a point which may symbolise the principle. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century "What a great way of thinking," remarks Horace Walpole, "on such an occasion." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Maria Clementina, reported by Horace Walpole to have been "lively, insinuating, agreeable, and enterprising," had encountered, soon after her marriage with James, the too frequent fate of many who were sacrificed to royal marriages. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Lady Mary always had a dread of growing old; and she grew old and ill-favored, as Horace Walpole was spiteful enough to put on record. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Horace Walpole obtained a lock of his hair at this time. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland The qualifications, says Horace Walpole, were drunkenness and a visit to Italy. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The Serjeant-at-Arms was then distinctly heard proclaiming silence; and the Lord High Steward delivered what Horace Walpole has termed, "his very long, and very poor speech, with only one or two good passages in it." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Horace Walpole says that, dating from Wilkes's famous No. 45, no less than two hundred informations had been laid, a much larger number than during the whole thirty-three years of the previous reign. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Horace Walpole, British Ambassador to the French Court, had been brought over from Paris to explain and justify his brother's foreign policy. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The history of England, throughout a very large segment of the eighteenth century, is simply a synonym for the works of Horace Walpole. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) So Horace Walpole remarks that Vanbrugh wrote so well because he was familiar with the conversation of the best circles. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The pension, as it appears from Horace Walpole's letters, was taken from Lord Kilmarnock by Lord Wilmington. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. But it is pleasant to retire to the Tale of a Tub, Tristram Shandy, and Horace Walpole, after being tossed on his canvas waves. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 A note in a copy of this volume states that it was printed by Thomas Farmer, who had also assisted Horace Walpole at the Strawberry Hill press. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 So Horace Walpole retired to Strawberry Hill and made toys of Gothic architecture, or heraldry, or dilettante antiquarianism. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Horace Walpole, in a letter to George Montagu, April 29, 1762.—Ed. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica A frequent guest at Mrs. Cosway's during the last ten years of his life was Horace Walpole, very pleased at receiving 'little Italian notes of invitation' from the winning lady. Art in England Notes and Studies Adolphus's History will receive some illustration from Horace Walpole's letters of that period.... The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 None of the curious hobbies ridden by Horace Walpole became him better, or was more useful, than his fancy for running a printing-press. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 He could not have a better counsellor than Lady Bertie, who had herself travelled, at least to the Faubourg St. Honor�, and, as Horace Walpole says, after Calais nothing astonishes. Tancred Or, The New Crusade "I believe I told you that King Theodore is here," wrote Horace Walpole in 1749, to Sir Horace Mann, our Envoy at Florence. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Gravely does Miss Hannah More address Mr. Horace Walpole, concerning what she terms the 'demoniacal mummery'—'the operation of fraud upon folly' which then occupied the country. Art in England Notes and Studies Footnote 22: Near Twickenham, formerly the residence of Horace Walpole, and filled with his collection of pictures and objets de vertu. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 Next to the press of Horace Walpole, that of George Allan, M. P. for Durham, at the Grange, Darlington, must be noticed. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 The stone used by him came into the possession of Horace Walpole, and was long, if not now, in the Strawberry Hill collection. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales No wonder that Horace Walpole exclaimed more than twenty years before Boswell's book was published, "I hate the Genoese; they make a commonwealth the most devilish of all tyrannies!" Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Horace Walpole says nothing of this story; but the brothers, it was well known, were not friends, seldom if ever met, and probably were not closely informed of each other's proceedings. Art in England Notes and Studies According to Horace Walpole, Holbein's palace lodging was probably 'the little study called the new library' of square glazed bricks of different colours, designed by the painter at Whitehall. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Horace Walpole characterized him in a series of his smartest antitheses as "a singular person whose life was one contradiction." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" "We are forced," said Horace Walpole, the wit of his day, "to ask every morning what new victory there is, for fear of missing one." Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Poor brave Paoli!" wrote Horace Walpole, "but he is not disgraced. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica THE Place was old Bath, in the days immediately succeeding those of Alexander Pope and William Hogarth, and dovetailing into those of Horace Walpole and the Wesleys. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes She must have been at that time both witty and pretty, for Mrs. Montagu and the Reynoldses were delighted with her, Dr. Johnson gave her pet names, and Horace Walpole called her Saint Hannah. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Encouraged by the advice and help of Horace Walpole, she became a skilful copyist, and it is said imitated the works of some earlier painters with a genius that fairly depreciated the originals! Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation To Horace Walpole we owe the phrase which describes Goldsmith as an "inspired idiot." Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series Horace Walpole, who had seen him, describes him as "a comely, middle-sized man, very reserved, and affecting much dignity." Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Horace Walpole's reasons for thinking Saint-Germain 'not a gentleman' scarcely seem convincing. Historical Mysteries She once wrote to me: "I should like to tell you all about it, but alas! old Horace Walpole's talent has not descended on me." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Horace Walpole owned, at Strawberry Hill, a famous old curfew, in copper, elaborately decorated with vines and the York rose. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance This, as Horace Walpole remarks, was sure of finding him within a certain fathom.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 By the time Boswell was six-and-twenty he could boast that he had made the acquaintance of Adam Smith, Robertson, Hume, Johnson, Goldsmith, Wilkes, Garrick, Horace Walpole, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Paoli. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica The plot of Bandello's thirty-fifth story is the same as that of Horace Walpole's comedy The Mysterious Mother, and of the Queen of Navarre's thirtieth tale. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) But against the urbane lines written by one Horace some while before Juvenal let us set a passage from another Horace—Horace Walpole, seventeen hundred years later and some little while ahead of Johnson. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 It was probably a profound want of confidence in the accuracy of biographical writing that led Horace Walpole to beg for "anything but history, for history must be false." Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Horace Walpole—not the Horace—but 'Uncle Horace,' or 'old Horace,' as he was called, was then ambassador to the court of the Tuileries. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Horace Walpole had written to beg him to read the book. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica "A man," says Horace Walpole, "endowed with every great talent, who must have been the greatest man of his age if he had only common sincerity, common steadiness, and common sense." Life of Adam Smith Horace Walpole writes:—'The Church was moderate and, when the Ministry required it, yielding.' The English Church in the Eighteenth Century "We are ridiculous animals," observes Horace Walpole unsympathetically, "and if angels have any fun in their hearts, how we must divert them." Americans and Others She must have been eighty years old when Horace Walpole wrote of her to that other Horace—Mann: 'Tell Mr. Chute that his friend Bracegirdle breakfasted with me this morning. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Horace Walpole is commended for giving us ghosts without furnishing explanations. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Stuart's candidature was defeated, Horace Walpole says, by Lord Mansfield, but eventually no appointment was made, because Parliament intervened, and forbade any such commission to be sent out at all. Life of Adam Smith Even men like Lord Hervey, and Horace Walpole and Lord Chesterfield rarely bring, and still more rarely substantiate, any charges against them on this head. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Horace Walpole writes of her as "Mrs. Selwyn, mother of the famous George, and herself of much vivacity, and pretty." George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life She was, even Horace Walpole allows, 'of the softest, mildest temper in the world,' and fondly beloved by her sister Caroline, and by the 'Butcher of Culloden,' William, Duke of Cumberland. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 "These are studies, indeed, proverbially dull," he once wrote, speaking of Horace Walpole's antiquarian researches, "but it is only when they are pursued by those whose fancies nothing can enliven." Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature I read the other day that Horace Walpole thanked God that he came into the world when there were still such terms as 'afternoon' and 'evening.' The Measure of a Man Horace Walpole tells us that in 1766 it was quite the rage at Bath among persons in high life to form parties to hear the different preachers who 'supplied' the chapel. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Horace Walpole called her "one of the empresses of fashion." George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life If we can almost say that we know the London of the last century as well as the London of to-day it is largely to Horace Walpole's letters that our knowledge is due. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Mr. Shorter, Horace Walpole's mother's father, was walking down Norfolk Street in the Strand, to his house there, just before poor Mountfort the player was killed in that street by assassins hired by Lord Mohun. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 He sauntered along up Strawberry Hill, taking a good look at the snug little house upon which Mr. Horace Walpole was spending much money and pains. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Horace Walpole tells an extraordinary story of Gloucester Cathedral in 1753. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century He succeeded his nephew as fourth Lord Orford in 1791, but he preferred the name which he had made more widely known, and signed himself "Horace Walpole, uncle of the late Earl of Orford." George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life It is curious to contrast the comparative enthusiasm with which the Whartons write about Horace Walpole with the invective of Lord Macaulay. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Now Macaulay says that Horace Walpole's works rank as high among the delicacies of intellectual epicures as the Strasburg pie among the dishes described in the Almanach des Gourmands. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Horace Walpole's cynical remark is not true now, nor was it true even in his own corrupt era. The Art of Public Speaking As it is, the dull stains and enamels employed by Jarvis give it what Horace Walpole called 'a washed-out' effect. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century He was a friend of Gray, the poet, and of Horace Walpole. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Horace Walpole had human affections, though a most inhuman pen: and Wharton was famous for his good-humour. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 On another such day, Twickenham, and all its delights of trees, bowers, and villas, were flashing in the sun as brightly as ever in the best days of Horace Walpole or of Pope. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 But Horace Walpole, who found his "Sentimental Journey" very pleasing, declares that of "his tiresome 'Tristram Shandy,' he could never get through three volumes." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Cumberland returned to London on January 5, and Horace Walpole no longer dreaded “a rebellion that runs away.” A Short History of Scotland He had such admiration for Rousseau that he brought him to England, assisting him there in spite of Horace Walpole's ill-natured jest on the flight of the susceptible French philosopher. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Horace Walpole affected to despise men of letters. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Besides the ordinary Christian virtues I would recommend to any one, who would fit himself to live happily as well as efficiently, the cultivation of that auxiliary virtue or grace which Horace Walpole called "Serendipity." Humanly Speaking Some have considered that there was a severity of delineation in my character of Horace Walpole. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions I take a huge pleasure in dipping from time to time, into the books of Horace Walpole, and an almost equal pleasure in cherishing a hearty contempt for the man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Judging from some observations in Horace Walpole's "Correspondence," the English, though surfeited with victory, were much pleased with their Cuban conquest. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The chests at Strawberry Hill are cleared of their contents; Horace Walpole's latest letters are before us; Pepys and Evelyn have thoroughly dramatized the days of Charles II.; The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Let ambitious correspondents take example by Horace Walpole, and learn that simplicity is the first, best—nay, the only—object to be aimed at by the letter-writer. Side Lights Horace Walpole said of him in his Catalogue of Engravers, "I must observe that his life, which was extended to eighty-six years, was a course of inquiry, study, curiosity, instruction and benevolence." Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets He, I understand, thinks that the Reform Act of 1832 was a great mistake, and dislikes Horace Walpole's Letters because their writer was a Whig. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary In 1739 he went to France and Italy with Horace Walpole. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The writers who took the chief part in originating and sustaining the romantic revival in English fiction were Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Mrs. Radcliffe. A History of English Prose Fiction It is impossible to imagine a more insensate collection of gamblers than the women of Horace Walpole's society. Side Lights He was immensely popular as a poet in his own day, and there was truth in the statement of Horace Walpole, that "Milton was forced to wait till the world had done admiring Quarles." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Horace Walpole used to call his servants his family. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary The "Elegy" was published in 1751; the two "sister odes," "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard," were struck off from Horace Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill in 1757. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The novel of "Evelina," the letters of Horace Walpole and Mrs. Delany corroborate each other, and may be appropriately placed on the same shelf in a well-ordered library. A History of English Prose Fiction Some of Horace Walpole's letters prove plainly enough that great gentlemen conducted themselves occasionally very much as wild seamen would do in Shadwell or the Highway. Side Lights He sent some of them with letters to Horace Walpole, and, as Walpole did not immediately answer, he wrote to him quite impertinently. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In looking through the library of Congress one day, he found an edition of Horace Walpole's letters, which he read with a keen relish. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Horace Walpole, the son of the great prime minister, Robert Walpole, was a person of varied accomplishments and undoubted cleverness. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Horace Walpole, indeed, boldly ascribed it to Fielding, and asserted that he had discovered among his father's papers an imperfect copy of the play. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The sole results were a half-rebuke from the King, and a malicious fling from the lips of Horace Walpole. Washington's Birthday Among his college friends were Horace Walpole, West, the son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and William Mason, who afterwards wrote the poet's life. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Horace Walpole was often in Paris, and often saw the philosophic circle, but it did not please his supercilious humour. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) It is no more possible to take Monk Lewis seriously than to take Horace Walpole seriously. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Boswell states that "Horace Walpole thought Johnson a more amiable character after reading his Letters to Mrs. Thrale, but never was one of the true admirers of that great man." Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings One 353 circumstance is mentioned by Horace Walpole, which, if true, was indeed flagitious. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals Horace Walpole, the Right Honorable, and afterwards Earl of Orford, 1717-1797: he was a wit, a satirist, and a most accomplished writer, who, notwithstanding, affected to despise literary fame. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Something of the exhilaration of these years we can still catch in the letters which show the effort made by the jaded Horace Walpole to turn off with easy laughter his deep sense of pride. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham "Mr. Dyer," wrote Gray to Horace Walpole in 1751, "has more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number; but rough and injudicious." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The letters of Junius and of Horace Walpole were familiar to him "in boyhood," we are assured with provoking indefiniteness by Mrs Orr; as well as "all the works of Voltaire." Robert Browning "Who the deuce was thinking of Quebec?" says Horace Walpole. Montcalm and Wolfe His maligner and only slightly younger contemporary, Horace Walpole, in some of his letters, writes in a fashion which, putting mere slang aside, has hardly any difference from that of to-day. The English Novel The questions were submitted, and Lord Mansfield, instead of meeting them, "with most abject soothings," as Horace Walpole gleefully says, "paid the highest compliments to Lord Camden." International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Romanticism was something more, then, than a new literary mode; a taste cultivated by dilettante virtuosos, like Horace Walpole, college recluses like Gray, and antiquarian scholars like Joseph and Thomas Warton. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Horace Walpole has said that Queen Caroline's patronage of Stephen Duck, the thresher poet, ruined twenty men, who all turned poets. Thrift Wolfe calls him "a man of approved courage and fidelity"; and even the caustic Horace Walpole speaks of him as "a brave, sensible young man, of great temper and good nature." Montcalm and Wolfe But it was Horace Walpole who had opened the door to Romance herself. The English Novel Soon afterwards we reached the fair-sized village or town of Callington, which under the old franchise returned two Members to Parliament, one of whom had been Horace Walpole, the son of the famous Robert Walpole. From John O'Groats to Land's End Everybody," Horace Walpole wrote to his friend Sir Horace Mann, "is on the quest for tickets for her Grace of Kingston's trial. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Horace Walpole once said, "I hope that there will not be another sale, for I have not an inch of room nor a farthing left." Thrift During these proceedings, the English Governor, Cornwallis, seems to have justified the character of good temper given him by Horace Walpole. Montcalm and Wolfe The seed of Gothic story, sown at random by Horace Walpole, had by 1798 taken firm root in the soil. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author. An English Grammar Horace Walpole calls this degenerate Shirley "a low wretch, a mad assassin, and a wild beast." Love Romances of the Aristocracy Return to Table of Contents Horace Walpole was “a dainty rogue in porcelain” who walked badly. The Art of Letters I confess, after my morning with the lunatics, I am half inclined, like Horace Walpole, to think everything serious ridiculous. Marcella To Horace Walpole, whose Castle of Otranto was published on Christmas Eve, 1764, must be assigned the honour of having introduced the Gothic romance and of having made it fashionable. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I With one of them, Horace Walpole, the well-known author and collector, he traveled on the continent soon after leaving the university; and although they quarreled and separated the friendship was renewed later. Selections from Five English Poets As a letter-writer he does not, I think, stand in the same rank as Horace Walpole and Charles Lamb. The Art of Letters Horace Walpole on his travels spent his time in a way that would have been censured by the Elizabethans. English Travellers of the Renaissance Horace Walpole, in his Royal and Noble Authors, states that the publication in 1712 was the "second edition corrected;" and Mr. Park says in a note, that the first edition was in 1695, 8vo. Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 My present book is Horace Walpole; I get endless stuff out of it; epic, tragic, lyrical, didactic: all inarticulate indeed. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I His autobiography has been edited by Horace Walpole and Scott. Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 There was never a more loyal son than Horace Walpole. The Art of Letters In 1765, Horace Walpole was depressed by the solemnity and austerity of French society. English Travellers of the Renaissance Among celebrated foreigners, the Englishman Horace Walpole played the same character in this house which the Swede Creutz had assumed in that of Geoffrin. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Dodsley having failed him, Chatterton next took the bolder step of writing to Horace Walpole, who must have been much in his mind for some years before his sending the letter. The Rowley Poems He thought Locke "a fine, satisfactory sort of a fellow, but very long-winded"; considered Horace Walpole's "the best wit ever published in the shape of letters"; and dismissed Madame de Sévigné as "very much over-praised." Sydney Smith Readers of Horace Walpole’s letters, however, will remember still earlier examples of the romantic attitude to nature. The Art of Letters I have never heard any one go so far, however, as Hannah Moore says was the case with Horace Walpole, who contended that the ten commandments were not meant for people of quality. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland Horace Walpole, speaking of the opening of the budget one year, says, “The rest of the night was spent in a kind of avoirdupoise war.” The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 486, April 23, 1831 If England prevails, said Horace Walpole, English and American liberty is at an end; if one fell, the other would fall with it. Burke In the Congressional Library, one day, he found an edition of Horace Walpole's Letters, which amused him very much. Famous Americans of Recent Times He is an enthusiast within limits for the genius of Sterne and the genius of Horace Walpole. The Art of Letters Horace Walpole's Correspondence would make but a dull book cut in "little stars" in the letter style; and Lord Byron, as a letter writer, resembles Walpole more closely than any other writer of his time. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 474, Supplementary Number The inimitable Letters of Horace Walpole contain, as might be expected, more than one mention of this cause célèbre. Trial of Mary Blandy Horace Walpole describes a dinner at his house in the summer of 1761. Burke Horace Walpole says, Jonathan Richardson was undoubtedly one of the best painters of a head that had appeared in England. Yesterdays with Authors This leads him to enlarge upon the wonders that the Horace Walpole of posterity will be able to possess when the miraculous discoveries have been made. The Art of Letters It occurred to Horace Walpole at once, but he laid no stress on it. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Horace Walpole, who died Earl of Orford, was a little old man with small features—very lively and amusing,—who talked just as he wrote: but a little too fond of baubles and curiosities. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 There is the famous boast attributed to him by Horace Walpole. George Washington Horace Walpole, in his summary of the excellencies and defects of great painters, observed with much justice, that "Titian wanted to have seen the antique; Poussin to have seen Titian." Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 Horace Walpole’s daintiness recoiled from the spirit of an author who did not know how to sup decently. The Art of Letters The bronze doors of this screen were of a most singular and elegant pattern: Horace Walpole imitated them in his bed-room, at Strawberry-Hill. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 True; they were both cheats; Horace Walpole from apprehensive vanity; Chatterton from proud oblique humility. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 He had come to London with letters of introduction from Horace Walpole, the English Ambassador at Paris, to various eminent persons in the Government. Books and Characters French and English I say so to Arthur—and he raves—and quotes Horace Walpole—and all sorts of people. Fenwick's Career His health, his nerves, an entire absence of the sense of humor, and his lack of repartee, made him shun like Pope and Horace Walpole the bibulous and gluttonous element of eighteenth-century British society. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 SW. of London; a fashionable resort in the 18th century; the dwelling-place of Pope, Horace Walpole, Turner, and others. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Horace Walpole wove a standard collection of anecdotes from the lives and works of painters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 During the second, which lasted for the rest of her life, her salon, purged of the Encyclopaedists, took on a more decidedly worldly tone; and the influence of Horace Walpole was supreme. Books and Characters French and English Horace Walpole's History of Modern Gardening is now so little read that authors think they may steal from it with safety. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Horace Walpole mentions this seat, and ascribes the design to Francesco Cleyn, who worked for Charles I. and some of the Court. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time She was a granddaughter of the Duke of Argyle, a relative of the Marquis of Hertford, and a cousin of Horace Walpole. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. I had every ground to believe that Horace Walpole, a vile, malignant, and unnatural wretch, though a very clever writer of Letters, was nine-tenths of the Holland House authority for the tale. Studies in Literature Often, even before the arrival of the old pensioner, she was at work dictating a letter, usually to Horace Walpole, occasionally to Madame de Choiseul or Voltaire. Books and Characters French and English Horace Walpole said that they contained scenes worthy of the bold pencil of Rubens, and subjects for the tranquil sunshine of Claude de Lorraine. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden They were "the patriots that saved Briton," says Horace Walpole, in referring to their anti-Jacobitism, and yet the most of them are forgotten. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Horace Walpole, the third son of Sir Robert Walpole, was born in 1717. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Horace Walpole was a virtuoso in Gothic art, and in his castle at Strawberry Hill he made a collection of ancient armor, illuminated manuscripts, and bric-a-brac of all kinds. From Chaucer to Tennyson Horace Walpole had come upon her at a psychological moment. Books and Characters French and English Horace Walpole in his lively and pleasant little work on Modern Gardening almost anticipates this thought. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Men like Horace Walpole wrote to their friends of a retreat to the garrets of Hanover. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Horace Walpole was as enthusiastic as either of them; good eighteenth century prelates like Hurd and Percy, found in what they called the Gothic an inexhaustible source of delight. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge He had at Eton become intimate with Horace Walpole and with Richard West, a young man of high promise, who died early. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The late Mrs. Paget Toynbee, while preparing her edition of Horace Walpole's letters, came upon the trace of the original manuscripts, which had long lain hidden in obscurity in a country house in Staffordshire. Books and Characters French and English The deliberation with which trees grow," wrote Horace Walpole, in a letter to a friend, "is extremely inconvenient to my natural impatience. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden "It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author." Famous Reviews He is a pleasant contrast in this, as in much else, to Horace Walpole, who succeeded, in the course of a long life, in breaking with almost all his old friends. Samuel Johnson He had intended to study law, but was diverted from his purpose by Horace Walpole, who invited him to take in his Company the "grand tour." Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Horace Walpole relates a number of curious instances of this sort, he himself having been robbed in broad day, with Lord Eglinton, Sir Thomas Robinson, Lady Albemarle, and many more. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Lord Orford, in his correspondence with Horace Walpole, mentions two curious instances. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) In the latest journals of Horace Walpole his inveterate gambling, his open profligacy, his utter want of honour, is disclosed by one of his own opinion. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) Considering that such men as Horace Walpole and his like were enjoying sinecures of more than twice as many thousands for being their father's sons, the bounty does not strike one as excessively liberal. Samuel Johnson Horace Walpole said that the best of all bulls was that of the man who, complaining of his nurse, said, ``I hate that woman, for she changed me at nurse.'' Literary Blunders Horace Walpole, writing to Montagu in December 1766, professes to have laughed over them till he cried. De Libris: Prose and Verse In 1772 Horace Walpole compressed the glories of the place into a few sentences. Yorkshire His wife is mentioned by Horace Walpole, in his letter to George Montague, May 18th, 1749, which letter is printed in his Correspondence. The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Horace Walpole, writing to Mason, May 12, 1778, mentions her when she was at the height of her beauty. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Besides these associations of his early life there were Canning, a frequent visitor, as has been mentioned, at his father's house, and Hannah More—"Holy Hannah," as Horace Walpole called her. The Grand Old Man It is the fashion to abuse Horace Walpole, but I really think him the most delightful writer that ever existed. Vivian Grey In the latest journals of Horace Walpole, his inveterate gambling, his open profligacy, his utter want of honour, is disclosed by one of his own opinions. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Horace Walpole speaks of her as half mad. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Horace Walpole says that 'Lord Mansfield was afraid, and would not venture the pillory.' Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Horace Walpole writes:—'Paoli's character had been so advantageously exaggerated by Mr. Boswell's enthusiastic and entertaining account of him, that the Opposition were ready to incorporate him in the list of popular tribunes. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 I fear that the Newgate Calendar of the day would tell us more of the ways of living then prevailing than the letters of Lady Mary W. Montagu or of Horace Walpole. The Life of Cicero Volume One Horace Walpole's saying of the 'inspired ideot' is recorded in Davies's Garrick, ii. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 England of the eighteenth century was peculiarly rich in them; but Horace Walpole, Cowper, Gray himself, would willingly have acknowledged Cicero as their master. Latin Literature Horace Walpole had succeeded to his title after the publication of the first edition of this book. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Horace Walpole ends his account of the Marriage Bill by saying:—'Thus within three weeks were the Thirty-nine Articles affirmed and the New Testament deserted.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 Horace Walpole ascribed 'The Golden Rump' to Fielding, and said that he had found an imperfect copy of the play among his father's papers. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 Horace Walpole, too, does not seem to have doubted it. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 All this furnished Churchill with matter for his "Duellist," which even Horace Walpole pronounced "glorious." Poetical Works Horace Walpole says of Lord Mansfield's speech on the Habeas Corpus Bill of 1758:—'Perhaps it was the only speech that in my time at least had real effect; that is, convinced many persons.' Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Horace Walpole describes him as 'the rankest of all Scotchmen, and odious for that bloody speech that had fixed on him the nick-name of Starvation! Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 I had also mentioned that Sir James Mackintosh had expressed an opinion that Mr. Southey had formed his style on the model of Horace Walpole. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Horace Walpole, however, inclined to the belief that Cameron was engaged in a new scheme of rebellion. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Pope is always the parvenu, always giving himself the airs of a fine gentleman, and, like Horace Walpole and Byron, affecting superiority to professional literature. Among My Books First Series Horace Walpole, writing of April of this year when, in the alarm of a French invasion, the militia were called out, says:—'The King's behaviour was childish and absurd. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Horace Walpole said of his Champagne Speech,—'It was Garrick writing and acting extempore scenes of Congreve.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 Mackintosh's notice, as you inform me, that my style is founded on Horace Walpole, is ridiculous. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey No one with a spark of true manliness, of which Horace Walpole had none, could have written it. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But by all means keep it from Horace Walpole. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty Horace Walpole records of him a fact that 'showed a conscientious idea of honesty in him. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Horace Walpole described Lord Pembroke in 1764 as 'a young profligate.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 No one can forget the eloquent thanks of such men as Horace Walpole, and other persons of distinction, to the Misses Berry, in London, who kept up their evening receptions for sixty years. Manners and Social Usages |
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