Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I

Horace Walpole

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Title: Letters of Horace Walpole Volume I
Author: Horace Walpole
Release Date: April 18, 2004 [EBook #12073]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG
EBOOK LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE ***
Produced by Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team.LETTERS
OF
HORACE WALPOLE
SELECTED AND EDITED BY
CHARLES DUKE YONGE, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF FRANCE
UNDER THE BOURBONS," "A LIFE OF MARIE
ANTOINETTE," ETC., ETC.
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME I
London
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARENEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
MDCCCXCCONTENTS.
1736-1764.
1. TO MONTAGU, May 2, 1736.—Marriage of the
Princess of Wales—Very lively
2. TO THE SAME, May 6, 1736.—Fondness for
Old Stories—Reminiscences of Eton, etc.
3. TO THE SAME, March 20, 1737.—Wish to
Travel—Superiority of French Manners to English
in their manner to Ladies
4. TO WEST, April 21, 1739.—Theatres at Paris—
St. Denis—Fondness of the French for Show, and
for Gambling—Singular Signs—The Army the only
Profession for Men of Gentle Birth—Splendour of
the Public Buildings
5. TO THE SAME, 1739.—Magnificence of
Versailles—The Chartreux Relics
6. TO THE SAME, February 27, 1740.—The
Carnival—The Florentines Civil, Good-natured, and
Fond of the English—A Curious Challenge
7. TO THE SAME, June 14, 1740.—Herculaneum
—Search should be made for other Submerged
Cities—Quotations from Statius
8. TO CONWAY, July 5, 1740.—Danger of Malaria—Roman Catholic Relics—"Admiral Hosier's
Ghost"—Contest for the Popedom
9. TO THE SAME, July 9, 1740
10. TO WEST, Oct. 2, 1740.—A Florentine
Wedding—Addison's Descriptions are Borrowed
from Books—A Song of Bondelmonti's, with a Latin
Version by Gray, and an English One by the Writer
11. TO MANN, Jan. 22, 1742.—Debate on
Pulteney's Motion for a Committee on Papers
Relating to the War—Speeches of Pulteney, Pitt,
Sir R. Walpole, Sir W. George, etc.—Smallness of
the Ministerial Majority
12. TO THE SAME, May 26, 1742.—Ranelagh
Gardens Opened—Garrick, "A Wine-merchant
turned Player"—Defeat of the Indemnity Bill
13. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1742.—Debate on
Disbanding the Hanoverian Troops—First Speech
of Murray (afterwards Earl of Mansfield)—Bon Mot
of Lord Chesterfield
14. TO THE SAME, Feb. 24, 1743.—King
Theodore—Handel Introduces Oratorios
15. TO THE SAME, July 4, 1743.—Battle of
Dettingen—Death of Lord Wilmington
16. TO THE SAME, Sept. 7, 1743.—French Actors
at Clifden—A new Roman Catholic Miracle—Lady
Mary Wortley17. TO THE SAME, March 29, 1745.—Death of his
Father—Matthews and Lestock in the
Mediterranean—Thomson's "Tancred and
Sigismunda"—Akenside's Odes—Conundrums in
Fashion
18. TO THE SAME, May 11, 1745.—Battle of
Fontenoy—The Ballad of the Prince of Wales
19. TO MONTAGU, August 1, 1745.—M. De
Grignan—Livy's Patavinity—The Maréchal De
Belleisle—Whiston Prophecies the Destruction of
the World—The Duke of Newcastle
20. TO MANN, Sept. 6, 1745.—Invasion of
Scotland by the Young Pretender—Forces are said
to be Preparing in France to join him
21. TO THE SAME, Sept. 20, 1745.—This and the
following Letters give a Lively Account of the
Progress of the Rebellion till the Retreat from
Derby, after which no particular interest attaches to
it
22. TO THE SAME, Sept. 27, 1745.—Defeat of
Cope
23. TO THE SAME, Oct. 21, 1745.—General
Wade is Marching to Scotland—Violent
Proclamation of the Pretender
24. TO THE SAME, Nov. 22, 1745.—Gallant
Resistance of Carlisle—Mr. Pitt attacks the Ministry
25. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1745.—The RebelArmy has Retreated from Derby—Expectation of a
French Invasion
26. TO THE SAME, April 25, 1746.—Battle of
Culloden
27. TO THE SAME, Aug. 1, 1746.—Trial of the
Rebel Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock
28. TO THE SAME, Oct. 14, 1746.—The Battle of
Rancoux
29. TO CONWAY, Oct. 24, 1746.—On Conway's
Verses—No Scotch_man_ is capable of such
Delicacy of Thought, though a Scotchwoman may
be—Akenside's, Armstrong's, and Glover's Poems
30. TO THE SAME, June 8, 1747.—He has bought
Strawberry Hill
31. TO THE SAME, Aug. 29, 1748.—His Mode of
Life—Planting—Prophecies of New Methods and
New Discoveries in a Future Generation
32. TO MANN, May 3, 1749.—Rejoicings for the
Peace—Masquerade at Ranelagh—Meeting of the
Prince's Party and the Jacobites—Prevalence of
Drinking and Gambling—Whitefield
33. TO THE SAME, March 11, 1750.—Earthquake
in London—General Panic—Marriage of Casimir,
King of Poland
34. TO THE SAME, April 2, 1750.—General Panic
—Sherlock's PastoralLetter—Predictions of more Earthquakes—A
General Flight from
London—Epigrams by Chute and Walpole himself
—French Translation of
Milton
35. TO THE SAME, April 1, 1751.—Death of
Walpole's Brother, and of the Prince of Wales—
Speech of the young Prince—Singular Sermon on
His Death
36. TO THE SAME, June 18, 1751.—Changes in
the Ministry and Household—The Miss Gunnings—
Extravagance in London—Lord Harcourt, Governor
of the Prince of Wales
37. TO THE SAME, June 12, 1753.—Description of
Strawberry Hill—Bill to Prevent Clandestine
Marriages
38. TO MONTAGU, May 19, 1756.—No News
from France but what is Smuggled—The King's
Delight at the Vote for the Hanover Troops—Bon
Mot of Lord Denbigh
39. TO THE SAME, Oct. 17, 1756.—Victory of the
King of Prussia at Lowositz—Singular Race—
Quarrel of the Pretender with the Pope
40. TO THE SAME, Nov. 4, 1756.—Ministerial
Negotiations—Loss of Minorca—Disaster in North
America
41. TO THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, July 4, 1757.
—The King of Prussia's Victories—Voltaire's"Universal History"
42. TO ZOUCH, August 3, 1758.—His own "Royal
and Noble Authors"
43. TO THE SAME, Oct. 21, 1758.—His "Royal
and Noble Authors"—Lord Clarendon—Sir R.
Walpole and Lord Bolingbroke—The Duke of Leeds
44. TO MANN, Oct. 24, 1758.—Walpole's
Monument to Sir Horace's Brother—Attempted
Assassination of the King of Portugal—Courtesy of
the Duc D'Aiguillon to his English Prisoners
45. TO ZOUCH, Dec. 9, 1758.—A New Edition of
Lucan—Comparison of "Pharsalea"—Criticism on
the Poet, with the Aeneid—Helvetius's Work, "De
L'Esprit"
46. TO CONWAY, Jan. 19, 1759.—State of the
House of Commons
47. TO DALRYMPLE, Feb. 25, 1759.—Robertson's
"History of Scotland"—Comparison of Ramsay and
Reynolds as Portrait-Painters—Sir David's "History
of the Gowrie Conspiracy"
48. TO THE SAME, July 11, 1759.—Writers of
History: Goodall, Hume, Robertson—Queen
Christina
49. TO CONWAY, Aug. 14, 1759.—The Battle of
Minden—Lord G. Sackville
50. TO MANN, Sept. 13, 1759.—Admiral