HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS WORLD
Sir T. Laurence. Pinx. A. Dawson. Ph. Sc. W. Evans. Sc.
Horace Walpole.
HORACE WALPOLE
AND HIS WORLD
SELECT PASSAGES FROM HIS LETTERS
EDITED BY
L. B. SEELEY, M.A.
Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS AFTER
Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence
LONDON
SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, 54, FLEET STREET
1884
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Introduction—Birth and Parentage—Education—Appointments—Travels—Parliamentary Career—Retirement—Fortune—Strawberry Hill—Collections—Writings—Printing Press—Accession to Title—Death—Character—Political Conduct and Opinions—The Slave Trade—Strikes—Views of Literature—Friendships—Charities—Chatterton—Letters | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Country Life—Ranelagh Gardens—The Rebel Lords—The Earthquake—A Frolic at Vauxhall—Capture of a Housebreaker—Strawberry Hill—The Beautiful Gunnings—Sterne | 33 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| A new Reign—Funeral of the late King—Houghton revisited—Election at Lynn—Marriage of George III.—His Coronation | 62 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| General Taste for Pleasure—Entertainments at Twickenham and Esher—Miss Chudleigh’s Ball—Masquerade at Richmond House—The Gallery at Strawberry Hill—Balls—The Duchess of Queensberry—Petition of the Periwig-makers—Ladies’ Head-gear—Almack’s—“The Castle of Otranto”—Plans for a Bower—A late Dinner—Walpole’s Idle Life—Social Usages | 78 |
| [vi]CHAPTER V. | |
| The Gout—Visits to Paris—Bath—John Wesley—Bad Weather—English Summers—Quitting Parliament—Madame du Deffand—Human Vanity—The Banks of the Thames—A Subscription Masquerade—Extravagance of the Age—The Pantheon—Visiting Stowe with Princess Amelia—George Montagu—The Countess of Ossory—Powder-Mills Blown up at Hounslow—Distractions of Business and Pleasure | 99 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Lord Nuneham—Madame de Sévigné—Charles Fox—Mrs. Clive and Cliveden—Goldsmith and Garrick—Dearth of News—Madame de Trop—A Bunch of Grapes—General Election—Perils by Land and Water—Sir Horace Mann—Lord ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |