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I had forgotten my eagerness to know whence they had heard of my plight, when some words from Comyn aroused me. "The carriage is Mr. Horace Walpole's, Richard. He has taken a great fancy to you." "But I have never so much as clapped eyes upon him!" I exclaimed in perplexity. "How about his honour with whom you supped at Windsor? how about the landlord you spun by the neck?
I asked him what he had said to the King; and he replied, that he had been so confused, he scarcely knew what he had said. But, cried I, your speech must be sent to the papers; I'll write it for you. I did so immediately, and it was printed forthwith." Tooke gave the same account to Isaac Reed. Walpole's Letters, v. 238, note. Stephens continues: 'The speech in reply, as Mr.
When Wilkes the year before, during his mayoralty, had presented An Address, 'the King himself owned he had never seen so well-bred a Lord Mayor. Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III, i. 484. Johnson's London, a Poem, v. 145. 'How when competitors like these contend, Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend. See ante, ii. 154. Johnson had said much the same at a dinner in Edinburgh.
It is remarkable that Waller, in his Reflections on the several Petitions, in that sacred form of devotion, has understood this in the same sense; 'Guard us from all temptations of the FOE. BOSWELL. Dr. Lort is often mentioned in Horace Walpole's Letters. Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit, comes from Horace, Odes, i. xxiv. 9, translated by Francis, How did the good, the virtuous mourn.
'All right, come on! And the speaker led the way, cautiously, however, and slowly, the others after him. 'No, not yet, whispered Kate, as she pressed her hand upon Walpole's. 'I hear voices up there, cried the leader from below.
Steele's argument against the government brought on him the hostility of the Duke of Newcastle, then Lord Chamberlain; and it was partly to defend himself and his brother patentees against hostile action threatened by the Duke, that Steele, in January, 1720, started his paper called the 'Theatre'. But he was dispossessed of his government of the theatre, to which a salary of L600 a-year had been attached, and suffered by the persecution of the court until Walpole's return to power.
Now night descending the proud scene was o'er, But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. In the third book the ghost of Settle acts the part of guide in the Elysian shade. Johnson implies, no doubt, that they were both Americans by birth. Trecothick was in the American trade, but he was not an American. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III, iii. 184, note.
There are also some instances of perhaps not unnatural confusion between one merely local British celebrity and another, as where it is set forth that in Mr Noyes's collection "there is a fine copy of Sir Robert Walpole's works, in five large quarto volumes, embellished with plates."
And in accordance with this principle modern England has accepted, as if it were a part of perennial morality, a tenth-rate job of Walpole's worst days called the Censorship of the Drama.
The tale was the precursor of a whole series of Gothic romances, and for fifty years afterwards English readers were afforded an unfailing supply of the supernatural and the horrible. A more important if less direct achievement of Walpole's was that by "The Castle of Otranto" he heralded the romantic revival that culminated in the masterpieces of Scott. Walpole died on March 2, 1797.
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