Horace Walpole: A memoir With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press
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 Gallery.--'A Sermon on Painting.'--Lord Orford as Moses.--The 'Ædes Walpolianæ.'--Prior's 'Protogenes and Apelles.'--Minor Literature.--Lord Orford's Decline and Death; his Panegyric.--Horace Walpole's Means. 57