The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford novel. A total of 343 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Letters of Horace Walpole.Volume 1.by Horace Walpole.PREFACE.The letters of Horace W
The Letters of Horace Walpole.Volume 1.by Horace Walpole.PREFACE.The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, as. .h.i.therto published, have consisted of,- 1. The letters contained in the quarto edition of his works, published in the year 1798.2. His l
- 301 At the same time with yours I received a letter from another cousin at Paris, who tells me Necker is on the verge, and in the postscript says, he has actually resigned. I heard so a few days ago; but this is a full confirmation. Do you remember a conversa
- 302 Strawberry Hill, July 7, 1781. (PAGE 284) My good Sir, you forget that I have a cousin, eldest son of Lord Walpole, and of a marriageable age, who has the same Christian name as I. The Miss Churchill he has married is my niece, second daughter of my siste
- 303 Now, Sir, for the epilogue. I have taken the liberty of desiring Mr. Harris to have one prepared, in case yours should not arrive in time. It is a compliment to him, (I do not mean that he will write it himself,) will interest him still more in the cause;
- 304 I congratulate your lords.h.i.+p on the discovery of the Scottish monarch's portrait in Suabia, and am sorry you did not happen to specify of which; but I cannot think of troubling your lords.h.i.+p to write again on purpose; I may probably find it m
- 305 'A saint in c.r.a.pe, is twice a saint in lawn.'Will you then be so good as to have this paragraph put into the Morning Herald, the Morning Chronicle, the Morning Post, and any other fourth paper you choose? 'We hear that the Rev. Martin Sh
- 306 Letter 247 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.Berkeley Square, June 1, 1782. (page 313) I thank you much, dear Sir, for your kind intention about Elizabeth of York;. but it would be gluttony and rapacity to accept her: I have her already in the picture of her marriage,
- 307 I had not time yesterday to say what I had to say about your coming hither. I should certainly be happy to see you and Lady Ailesbury at any time: but it would be unconscionable to expect it when you have scarce a whole day in a month to pa.s.s at your ow
- 308 Mr. Mason is to come to me on Sunday, and will find me mighty busy in making my lock of hay, which is not Yet cut. I don't know why, but people are always more anxious about their hay than their corn, or twenty other things that cost them more. I sup
- 309 I have seen Lord Carlisle's play, and it has a great deal of merit--perhaps more than your lords.h.i.+p would expect. The language and images are the best part, after the two princ.i.p.al scenes, which are really fine.(507) I did, as your lords.h.i.+
- 310 Your cherries, for aught I know, may, like Mr. Pitt, be half ripe before others are in blossom; but at Twickenham, I am sure, I could find dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges, as soon as a cherry in swaddling-clothes on my walls. The very leaves
- 311 Adieu! my dear lord! If my reveries are foolish, remember, I give them for no better, If I depreciate human wisdom, I am sure I do not a.s.sume a grain to myself; nor have any thing to value myself upon more than being your lords.h.i.+p's most oblige
- 312 In those days Old Sarum will again be a town and have houses in it. There will be fights in the air with wind-guns and bows and arrows; and there will be prodigious increase of land for tillage, especially in France, by breaking up all public roads as use
- 313 Letter 289 To John Pinkerton, Esq.(542) June 22, 1785. (page 365) Since I received your book,(543) Sir, I scarce ceased from reading till I had finished it; so admirable I found it, and so full of good sense, brightly delivered. Nay, I am pleased with mys
- 314 (552) Now first printed.(553) The Due de Nivernois' translation of Walpole's Essay on Gardening.-E.Letter 295 To The Earl Of Buchan.(554) Strawberry Hill, Sept. 23, 1785. (page 373) Your lords.h.i.+p is too condescending when you incline to keep
- 315 (566) Lord Euston, who, in 1811, succeeded his father as fourth Duke of Grafton, married, in November 1784, Charlotte Maria, daughter of the Earl of Waldegrave.-E.Letter 300 To Miss Hannah More.Berkeley Square, Feb. 9, 1786. (page 380) It is very cruel, m
- 316 Letter 304 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Strawberry Hill, Oct. 29, 1786. (page 386) I was sorry not to be apprised of your intention of going to town, where I would have met you; but I knew it too late, both as I was engaged, and as you was to return so soon.
- 317 Perhaps the spirit of your command did not mean that I should give you such manual proof of' my remembrance; and you may not know what to make of a subject who avows a mutinous spirit, and at the same time exceeds the measure of his duty. It is, I ow
- 318 (610) One of the Hieroglyphic tales, containing a description of Park-place. it will be found in Walpole's works.Letter 315 To Thomas Barrett, Esq.(611) Berkeley Square, June 5, 1788. (page 398) I wish I could charge myself with any merit, which I al
- 319 (619) Now first collected.Letter 321 To Miss Hannah More.(620) Strawberry Hill, August 17, 1788. (page 406) Dear Madam, In this great discovery of a new mine of Madame de S'evign'e's letters, my faith, I confess, is not quite firm. Do peopl
- 320 Letter 327 To Miss Hannah More.Berkeley Square, April 22, 1789. (page 414) Dear Madam, As perhaps you have not yet seen the "Botanic Garden" (which I believe I mentioned to you), I lend it you to read. The poetry, I think, you will allow most ad
- 321 (639) Miss More, in a letter written at this time to Walpole, says, "How you do scold me! but I don't care for your scolding; and I don't care for your wit neither, that I don't. half as much as I care for a blow which I hear you have
- 322 Penetration argues from reasonable probabilities; but chance and folly are apt to contradict calculation, and hitherto they seen) to have full scope for action. One hears of no genius on either side, nor do symptoms of any appear. There will perhaps: such
- 323 (662) Now first collected.(663) In reply to this, Miss More says, "You not only do all you can to turn my head by printing my trumpery verses yourself. but you call in royal aid to complete my delirium. I comfort myself you will counteract some part
- 324 (673) Lady Greenwich.(674) The " little Daniel" of the Pursuits of Literature, brother of Samuel Lysons, the learned antiquary, and author of "The Environs, twelve miles round London," in four volumes quarto-- "Nay once, for Purer air o'er rural gro
- 325 Letter 348 To Miss Hannah More.Berkeley Square, Feb. 20, 1790. (PAGE 446) It is very provoking that people must always be hanging or drowning themselves, or going mad, that you forsooth, Mistress, may have the diversion of exercising your pity and good-na
- 326 I must not pretend any longer, my dear lord, that this region is void of news and diversions. Oh! we can innovate as well as neighbouring nations. If an Earl Stanhope, though he cannot be a tribune, is ambitious of being a plebeian, he may without law be
- 327 The Marquisate(711) is just where it was--to be and not to be.The d.u.c.h.ess of Argyll is said to be worse. Della Crusca(712) has published a poem, called "The Laurel of Liberty," which, like the Enrag'es, has confounded and overturned all ideas. Ther
- 328 Your No. 15 came two days ago, and gives me the pleasure of knowing that you both are the better for riding, which I hope you will continue. I am glad, too, that you are pleased with your d.u.c.h.ess of Fleury and your Latin professor: but I own, except y
- 329 I have a story to tell you, much too long to add to this; which I will send next post, unless I have leisure enough to-day, from people that call on me to finish it to-day, having begun it last night; and in that case I will direct it to Miss Agnes. Mr.Ly
- 330 Berkeley Square, Feb. 26, 1791. (page 479) I have no letter from you to answer, nor any thing new that is the least interesting to tell you. The Duke of Argyll has sent a gentleman with a cart-load of affidavits, which the latter read to mother and daught
- 331 Letter 374 To The Miss Berrys.Berkeley Square, Sunday, March 27, 1791. (page 486) Though I begin my despatch to-day, I think I shall change my post-days, as I hinted from Tuesdays to Fridays; not only as more commodious for learning news for you, but as I
- 332 (775) James-Brownlow-William Gascoyne Cecil. in 1823, he succeeded his father as second Marquis of Salisbury.-E.(776) The wife of the banker in St. James's Street.(777) Mrs. Buller's only child.(778) Lady Charlotte Bertie.Letter 377 To Miss Berry.Strawb
- 333 Apropos: I hear there is a medal struck at Rome of her brother- in-law, as Henry the Ninth; which, as one of their Papal majesties was so abominably mean as to deny the royal t.i.tle to his brother, though for Rome he had lost a crown, I did not know they
- 334 Mr. Dundas has kissed hands for secretary of state; and Bishop Barrington, of Salisbury, is transferred to Durham, which he affected not to desire, having large estates by his wife in the south-but from the triple-mitre downwards, it is almost always true
- 335 Thursday night, late.Lady Di. has told me an extraordinary fact. Catherine Slay-Czar sent for Mr. Fawkener(816) and desired he will order for her a bust of Charles Fox; and she will place it between Demosthenes and Cicero (pedantry she learnt from her Fre
- 336 Tuesday.I am told that on the King's acceptance of the const.i.tution, there is a general amnesty published, and pa.s.sports taken off.If this is true, the pa.s.sage through France, for mere foreigners and strangers, may be easier and safer; but be a
- 337 I by no means would be understood to decline your obliging offer, Sir: on the contrary, I accept it joyfully, if you can trust me with your ma.n.u.script for a little time, should I have leisure to read it but by small s.n.a.t.c.hes, which would be wrongi
- 338 The tide of horrors has hurried me much too far, before I have vented a note of my most sincere concern for your bad account of your health. I feel for it heartily, and wish your frame were as sound as your soul and understanding. What can I recommend? I
- 339 (858) The seat of Sir George Cayley, Bart. near Scarborough.Letter 406 To The Miss Berrys.Strawberry Hill, Oct. 6, 1793. (page 544) You are welcome to Scarborough both, and buon proviccia! As you, Mrs. Mary, have been so mistaken about your sister, I shal
- 340 Lysons(876) has been drawing churches in Gloucesters.h.i.+re, and digging out a Roman villa and mosaic pavement near Cirencester, which he means to publish: but he knew nothing outlandish; so if the newspaper does not bring me something fresh for you pres
- 341 Letter 412 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Berkeley Square, Jan. 10, 1794. (page 555) I certainly sympathize with you on the reversed and gloomy prospect of affairs, too extensive to detail in a letter; nor indeed do I know any thing more than I collect from new
- 342 I believe the less that our opinions will coincide, as you speak so slightingly of the situation of Lee, which I admire. What a pretty circ.u.mstance is the little river! and so far from the position being insipid, to me it has a tranquil cheerfulness tha
- 343 Next arrived Dr. Burney, on his way to Mrs. Boscawen. He asked me about deplorable "Camilla." Alas! I had not recovered of it enough to be loud in its praise. I am glad, however, to hear that she has realized about two thousand pounds; and the w