The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 9Henry G. Bohn, 1861 |
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Page 292 - France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Page 276 - I have lost my oldest friend and acquaintance, G. Selwyn," writes Walpole to Miss Berry : " I really loved him, not only for his infinite wit, but for a thousand good qualities.
Page 25 - The more one learns of Johnson, the more preposterous assemblage he appears of strong sense, of the lowest bigotry and prejudices, of pride, brutality, fretfulness and vanity, — and Boswell is the ape of most of his faults, without a grain of his sense. It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.
Page 470 - Burney] knew the world and penetrated characters before she had stepped over the threshold ; and, now she has seen so much of it, she has little or no insight at all : perhaps she apprehended having seen too much, and kept the bags of foul air that she brought from the Cave of Tempests too closely tied.
Page xxii - ... under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was most usually in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour; partridge silk stockings and gold buckles, ruffles and frill generally lace.
Page 271 - Thirty years ago I had a dispute with Dame Macaulay on the same ground. I told her it was a settled maxim of mine that no great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go the lengths that may be necessary.
Page 453 - To his excellent friend MISS HANNAH MORE, this Book, which he knows to be the dearest object of her study, and by which, to the great comfort and relief of numberless afflicted and distressed individuals, she has profited beyond any person with whom he is acquainted, is offered as a mark of his esteem and gratitude, by her sincere and obliged humble servant, HORACE, EARL OF ORFORD, 1795.
Page 46 - Two days ago appeared Madame Piozzi's 'Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson.' I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean ; not in him. I had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style, and too void of method even for such a farrago. Her panegyric is loud in praise of her hero ; and almost every fact she relates disgraces him. She allows and proves he was arrogant, yet affirms he was not proud ; as...
Page 318 - I live so little in the world, that I do not know the present generation by sight: for, though I pass by them in the streets, the hats with valences, the folds above the chin of the ladies, and the dirty shirts and shaggy hair of the young men, who have levelled nobility almost as much as the mobility in France have, have confounded all individuality.
Page 250 - Last night the Earl of Barrymore was so humble as to perform a buffoon-dance and act Scaramouch in a pantomime at Richmond for the benefit of Edwin, jun., the comedian : ' and I, like an old fool, but calling myself a philosopher that loves to study human nature in all its disguises, went to see the performance.