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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.+
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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;
- 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
- 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
- 300 (417) Pope in his second Dialogue for the Year 1738, has transmitted Sir William's character to posterity-- "How can I, Pultney, Chesterfield, forget, While Roman spirit charms, and Attic wit?Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The maste
- 299 Letter 205 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.Berkeley Square, Dec. 19, 1780. (page 263) I cannot leave you for a moment in error, my good Sir, when you transfer a compliment to me, to which I have not the most slender claim, and defraud another of it to whom it is due
- 298 I did not go to Malvern, and therefore cannot certify you, my good Sir, whether Tom Hearne mistook stone for bra.s.s or not, though I dare to say your criticism is just.My book, if I can possibly, shall go to the inn to-morrow, or next day at least. You w
- 297 (389) Here Mr. Walpole had sketched in a rough draught of the arms.Letter 194 To Mrs. Abington.(390) Strawberry Hill, June 11, 1780. (page 251) Madam, You may certainly always command me and my house. My common custom is to give a ticket for only four per
- 296 (380) John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury; who arriving in Paris, as amba.s.sador from Richard II. to demand in marriage the Princess Isabel, daughter of Charles V., soon after the death of Castel, the husband of Christine, was so struck with her beauty and
- 295 It was the present Bishop Dean who showed me the pictures and Ann's tomb, and consulted me on the new altar-piece. I advised him to have a light octangular canopy, like the cross at Chichester, placed over the table or altar itself, which would have
- 294 Yours most sincerely.Letter 178 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.Strawberry Hill, August 12, 1779. (page 232) I write from decency, dear Sir, not from having any thing particular to say, but to thank you for your offer of letting me see the arms of painted gla.s.s; w
- 293 Pray tell me how you like the pictures when you have examined them. I shall search in Edmondson's new Vocabulary of Arms for the coat which contains three bulls' heads on six pieces; but the colours are either white and black. or the latter is b
- 292 Strype's account, or rather Stow's, of Richard's person is very remarkable--but I have done with endeavouring at truth. Weeds grow more naturally than what one plants. I hear your Cantabrigians are still unshaken Chattertonians. Many men ar
- 291 I am actually printing my Justification about Chatterton, but only two hundred copies to give away; for I hate calling in the whole town to a fray, of which otherwise probably not one thousand persons would ever hear. You shall have a copy as soon as ever
- 290 I know no particular news, but that Lord Bute was thought in great danger yesterday; I have heard nothing of him to-day. I do not know even a match, but of some that are going to be divorced; the fate of one of the latter is to be turned into an exaltatio
- 289 (325) See vol. i. p. 258, letter 69. Among the Mitch.e.l.l MSS. is a letter from Lord Barrington, in which he says, "No man knows what is good for him: my invariable rule, therefore, is to ask nothing, to refuse nothing; to let Others place me, and t
- 288 I am not in the least acquainted with the Mr. Bridges you mention, nor know that I ever saw him. The tomb for Mr. Gray is actually erected, and at the generous expense of Mr. Mason, and with an epitaph of four lines,(316) as you heard, and written by him-
- 287 Strawberry Hill, June 10, 1778. (page 187) I am as impatient and in as much hurry as you was, dear Sir, to clear myself from the slightest intention of censuring your politics. I know the sincerity and disinterested goodness of your heart, and when I must
- 286 Arlington Street, March 31, 1778. (page 181) I did think it long, indeed, dear Sir, since I heard from you, and am very sorry the gout was the cause. I hope after such long persecution you will have less now than you apprehend. I should not have been sile
- 285 That confessor said, "d.a.m.n him, he has told a great deal of truth, but where the devil did he learn it?" This was St.Atterbury's testimony.I shall take the liberty of reproving you, too, dear Sir, for defending that abominable murderess
- 284 Don't be alarmed at this thousandth letter in a week. This is more to Lady Hamilton(272) than to you. Pray tell her I have seen Monsieur la Bataille d'.Agincourt.(273) He brought me her letter yesterday: and I kept him to sup, sleep in the moder
- 283 (262) On the 17th of August 1776, when the English army, under the command of General Howe, defeated the Americans at Flat Bush, in Long Island.-E.Letter 116 To The Earl Of Strafford.Strawberry Hill, Nov. 2, 1776. (page 162) Though inclination, and consci
- 282 Strawberry Hill, June 1, 1776. (page 154) Mr. Granger's papers have been purchased by Lord Mount Stewart,(252) who has the frenzy of portraits as well as I; and, though I am at the head of the sect, I have no longer the rage of propagating it, nor wo
- 281 Letter 102 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.January 26, 1776. (page 148) I have deferred answering your last letter, dear Sir, till I cannot answer with my own hand. I made a pilgrimage at Christmas to Queen's Cross, at Ampthill, was caught there by the snow, Im
- 280 It will look like a month since I wrote to you; but I have been coming, and am. Madame du Deffand has been so ill, that the day she was seized I thought she would not live till night. Her Herculean weakness, which could not resist strawberries and cream a
- 279 (213) Mr. Raftor brother to Mrs. Clive.-E.Letter 92 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.(214) Strawberry Hill, August 9, 1775. (page 137) Well, I am going tout de bon, and I heartily wish I was returned.It is a horrid exchange, the cleanness and verdure and tranquil
- 278 (204) The Right Hon. William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, member for the county of Worcester. He died at Nice, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health.-E.(205) The Hon. Thomas Hervey, second son of John first Earl of Bristol.-E.Letter 88 To The R
- 277 Letter 85To The Rev. Mr. Cole.Arlington Street, Jan. 9, 1775. (page 124) I every day intended to thank you for the copy of Nell Gwyn's letter, till it was too late; the gout came, and Made me moult my goosequill. The letter is very curious, and I am
- 276 (168) To see the Lit de Justice held by Louis XVI. when he recalled the Parliament of Paris, at the instigation of the Chancellor Maupeou, and suppressed the new one of their creation.(169) The Duke de Choiseul.(170) The King's Speech announced, &quo
- 275 (148) The d.u.c.h.ess of Kingston; against whom an indictment for bigamy was found on the 8th of December, she having married the Duke of Kingston, having been previously married to the Hon.Augustus John Hervey, then living, and who, by the death of his b
- 274 Letter 76 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Strawberry Hill, Sunday, Oct. 16, 1774. (page 106) I received this morning your letter of the 6th from Strasburg; and before you get this you will have had three from me by Lady Ailesbury. One of them should have reached
- 273 The young Mr. c.o.ke is returned from his travels n love with the Pretender's queen,(124) who has permitted him to have her picture. What can I tell you more? Nothing. Indeed, if I only write to postmasters, my letter is long enough. Every body'
- 272 Mr. Pennant has given a new edition of his former Tour, with more cuts. Among others, is the vulgar head, called the Countess of Desmond. I told him I had discovered, and proved past contradiction, that it is Rembrandt's mother. He owned it, and said
- 271 if you will settle with the Churchills your journey to Chalfont, and will let me know the day, I will endeavour to meet you there; I hope it Will not be till next week. I am overwhelmed with business--but, indeed, I know not when I shall be otherwise! I w
- 270 Walpole enjoins me to charge himself with the chief blame in their quarrel - confessing that more attention and complaisance, more deference to a warm friends.h.i.+p, superior judgment and prudence, might have prevented a rupture that gave such uneasiness
- 269 At Buckden, in the Bishop's palace, I saw a print of Mrs.Newcome: I Suppose the late mistress of St. John's. Can you tell me where I can procure one? Mind, I insist that you do not serve me as you have often done, and send me your own, if you ha
- 268 P. S. I had like to have forgotten the most obliging, and to me the most interesting part of your letter-your kind offer of coming hither. I accept it most gladly; but, for reasons I will tell you, wish it may be deferred a little. I am going to Park-plac
- 267 I have not heard from Mr. Mason, but I have written to him. Be so good as to tell the Master at Pembroke,(65) though I have not the honour of knowing him, how sensible I am of his proposed attention to me, and how much I feel for him in losing a friend of
- 266 Friday, 9th.This was to have gone by a private hand, but cannot depart till Monday; so I may be continuing my letter till I bring it myself. I have been again at the Chartreuse; and though it was the sixth time, I am more enchanted with those paintings(52
- 265 I just write you a line, dear Sir, to acknowledge the receipt of the box of papers, which is come very safe, and to give you a thousand thanks for the trouble you have taken. As you promise me another letter I will wait to answer it.At present I will only
- 264 This whale has swallowed up all gudgeon-questions. Lord Harcourt writes, that the d'Aiguillonists had officiously taken opportunities of a.s.suring him, that if they prevailed it would be peace; but in this country we know that opponents turned minis
- 263 (16) The dispute with Spain relative to the possession of the Falkland Islands, had led to a considerable augmentation both of the army and navy; which gave an appearance of authenticity to the rumours of war which were now in circulation.-E.Letter 16 To
- 262 Letters of Horace Walpole, V4.by Horace Walpole.Letter 1 To Sir David Dalrymple.(1) Arlington Street, Jan. 1, 1770. (page 25) Sir, I have read with great pleasure and information, your History of Scottish Councils. It gave me much more satisfaction than I
- 261 (1097) Walpole had received a letter, of the 2d, from Madame du Deffand, describing the growing influence of Madame du Barry, and her increasing enmity to the Duc de Choiseul.-E.(1098) The d.u.c.h.ess of Aubign'e.Letter 375 To George Montagu, Esq.Arl
- 260 Adieu, my t'other dear old friend! I am sorry to say I see you almost as seldom as I do Madame du Deffand. However, it is comfortable to reflect that we have not changed to each other for some five-and-thirty years, and neither you nor I haggle about
- 259 (1079) The pet.i.tion of the livery of London, complaining of the unconst.i.tutional conduct of the King's ministers, and the undue return of Mr. Luttrell, when he Opposed Mr. Wilkes at the election for Middles.e.x.(1080) In a letter to the Earl of C
- 258 Beppo, st. 58.-E.Letter 360 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.Arlington Street, May 27, 1769. (page 541) Dear Sir, I have not heard from you this century, nor knew where you had fixed yourself. Mr. Gray tells me you are still at Waterbeche.Mr. Granger has published hi
- 257 You cannot wonder when I receive such kind letters from you, that I am vexed our intimacy should be reduced almost to those letters. It is selfish to complain, when you give me such good reasons for your system: but I grow old; and the less time we have t
- 256 Letter 349 To George Montagu, Esq.Arlington Street, Aug. 13, 1768. (page 529) indeed, what was become of you, as I had offered myself to you so long ago, and you did not accept my bill; and now it is payable at such short notice, that as I cannot find Mr.
- 255 Mr. Chute has found the subject of my tragedy, which I thought happened in Tillotson's time, in the Queen of Navarre's Tales; and what is very remarkable, I had laid my plot at Narbonne and about the beginning of the Reformation, and it really d
- 254 I have finished my tragedy,(1021) but as you would not bear the subject, I will say no more of it, but that Mr. Chute, who is not easily pleased, likes it, and Gray, who is still more difficult, approves it.(1022) I am not yet intoxicated enough with it t
- 253 No; but I concluded you did not intend, at least yet, to publish what you had written. As you did intend it, I might have expected a month's preference. You will do me the Justice to own that I had always rather have seen your writings than have show
- 252 With regard to my brother, I should apprehend nothing, were he like other men; but I shall not be astonished, if he throws his life away; and I have seen so much of the precariousness of it lately, that I am prepared for the event, if it shall happen. I w
- 251 (986) Francis Lord Beauchamp, son of the first Marquis of Hertford. His first wife, by whom he had no issue, was Alice Elizabeth, youngest daughter and coheiress of Herbert second Viscount Windsor. This lady died in 1772; when his lords.h.i.+p married, se
- 250 Letter 320 To Sir David Dalrymple.(976) Strawberry Hill, Nov. 5, 1766. (page 494) Sir, On my return from Bath, I found your very kind and agreeable present of the papers in King Charles's time;(977) for which and all your other obliging favours I giv
- 249 I have been most extremely ill; indeed, never well since I saw you. However, I think it is over, and that the gout is gone without leaving a codicil in my foot. Weak I am to the greatest degree, and no wonder. Such explosions make terrible havoc in a body
- 248 Letter 308 To The Right Hon. Lady Hervey.Strawberry Hill, June 28, 1766. (page 482) It is consonant to your ladys.h.i.+p's long experienced goodness, to remove my error as soon as you could. In fact, the same post that brought Madame d'Aiguillon
- 247 I should not have entrenched on Lord George's(953) province of sending you news of revolutions, but he is at Aubign'e; and I thought it right to advertise you in time, in case you should have a mind to send a bale of slouched hats to the support
- 246 I shall keep very near the time I proposed returning; though I am a little tempted to wait for the appearance of' leaves. As I may never come hither again, I am disposed to see a little of their villas and gardens, though it will vex me to lose sprin
- 245 She is false, artful, and insinuating beyond measure when it is her interest,(931) but indolent and a coward. She never had any pa.s.sion but gaming, and always loses. For ever paying court, the sole produce of a life of art is to get money from the King
- 244 January 9th.I had not sent away my letter, being so disappointed of a messenger, and now receive yours of December the thirtieth. My house is most heartily at your service, and I shall write to Favre to have it ready for You. You will see by the former pa