Category: Biographies
The Walpoles of Houghton.--Horace Walpole born, 24 September, 1717.--Lady Louisa Stuart's Story.--Scattered Facts of his Boyhood.--Minor Anecdotes--'La belle Jennings.'--The Bugles.--Interview with George I. before his Death.--Portrait at this time.--Goes to Eton, 26 April, 17...
Macaulay on Walpole.--Effect of the _Edinburgh_ Essay.--Macaulay and Mary Berry.--Portraits of Walpole.--Miss Hawkins's Description.--Pinkerton's Rainy Day at Strawberry.--Walpo...
21. CHAPTER IX.Occupations and Correspondence.--Literary Work.--Jephson and the Stage.--_Nature will Prevail._--Issues from the Strawberry Press.--Fourth Volume of the _Anecdotes of Painting_....
18. CHAPTER VII.State of French Society in 1765.--Walpole at Paris.--The Royal Family and the Bête du Gévaudan.--French Ladies of Quality.--Madame du Deffand.--A Letter from Madame de Sévigné.-...
16. CHAPTER V.The New House at Twickenham.--Its First Tenants.--Christened 'Strawberry Hill.'--Planting and Embellishing.--Fresh Additions.--Walpole's Description of it in 1753.--Visitors and...
13. CHAPTER II.Patent Places under Government.--Starts with Gray on the Grand Tour, March, 1739.--From Dover to Paris.--Life at Paris.--Versailles.--The Convent of the Chartreux.--Life at Rhei...
15. CHAPTER IV.Stage-gossip and Small-talk.--Ranelagh Gardens.--Fontenoy and Leicester House.--Echoes of the '45.--Preston Pans.--Culloden.--Trial of the Rebel Lords.--Deaths of Kilmarnock and...
17. CHAPTER VI.Gleanings from the _Short Notes_.--_Letter from Xo Ho._--The Strawberry Hill Press.--Robinson the Printer.--Gray's _Odes_.--Other Works.--_Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors._...
14. CHAPTER III.Gains of the Grand Tour.--'Epistle to Ashton.'--Resignation of Sir Robert Walpole, who becomes Earl of Orford.--Collapse of the Secret Committee.--Life at Houghton.--The Picture...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Old Friends and New.--Walpole's Nieces.--Mrs. Damer.--Progress of Strawberry Hill.--Festivities and Later Improvements.--_A Description_, etc., 1774.--The House and Approaches.-...
12. Chapter I. of the _Reminiscences_. How it came about he does not know,but at ten years old an overmastering desire seized him to inspect His Majesty. This childish caprice was so strong that his mother, who seldom thwarted him, solicited the Duche...
11. CHAPTER I.The Walpoles of Houghton.--Horace Walpole born, 24 September, 1717.--Lady Louisa Stuart's Story.--Scattered Facts of his Boyhood.--Minor Anecdotes.--'La belle Jennings.'--The Bu...
20. Volume II. of the _Works_ (pp. 393-516). The intention in the main hashere been to lay stress upon those articles which bear most directly upon Walpole's biography. It will also be observed that, during the prolonged progress of the house towards...
9. CHAPTER IX.Occupations and Correspondence.--Literary Work.--Jephson and the Stage.--_Nature will Prevail._--Issues from the Strawberry Press.--Fourth Volume of the _Anecdotes of Painting_....
1. CHAPTER I.The Walpoles of Houghton.--Horace Walpole born, 24 September, 1717.--Lady Louisa Stuart's Story.--Scattered Facts of his Boyhood.--Minor Anecdotes--'La belle Jennings.'--The Bug...
2. CHAPTER II.Patent Places under Government.--Starts with Gray on the Grand Tour, March, 1739.--From Dover to Paris.--Life at Paris.--Versailles.--The Convent of the Chartreux.--Life at Rhei...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Old Friends and New.--Walpole's Nieces.--Mrs. Damer.--Progress of Strawberry Hill.--Festivities and Later Improvements.--_A Description_, etc., 1774.--The House and Approaches.-...
5. CHAPTER V.The New House at Twickenham.--Its First Tenants.--Christened 'Strawberry Hill.'--Planting and Embellishing.--Fresh Additions.--Walpole's Description of it in 1753.--Visitors and...
7. CHAPTER VII.State of French Society in 1765.--Walpole at Paris.--The Royal Family and the Bête du Gévaudan.--French Ladies of Quality.--Madame du Deffand.--A Letter from Madame de Sévigné.-...
3. CHAPTER III.Gains of the Grand Tour.--'Epistle to Ashton.'--Resignation of Sir Robert Walpole, who becomes Earl of Orford.--Collapse of the Secret Committee.--Life at Houghton.--The Picture...
10. CHAPTER X.Macaulay on Walpole.--Effect of the _Edinburgh_ Essay.--Macaulay and Mary Berry.--Portraits of Walpole.--Miss Hawkins's Description.--Pinkerton's Rainy Day at Strawberry.--Walpo...
4. CHAPTER IV.Stage-gossip and Small-talk.--Ranelagh Gardens.--Fontenoy and Leicester House.--Echoes of the '45.--Preston Pans.--Culloden.--Trial of the Rebel Lords.--Deaths of Kilmarnock and...
6. CHAPTER VI.Gleanings from the _Short Notes_.--_Letter from Xo Ho._--The Strawberry Hill Press.--Robinson the Printer.--Gray's _Odes_.--Other Works.--_Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors._...