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Old and New London
… attended to witness so rare a circumstance." Horace Walpole records the incidents of this trial day by day, in …
Old and New London
… last century, as we learn by constant allusions in Horace Walpole's letters, most of the young nobility who were not … Abbey. The Rev. Mr. Mason, in one of his letters to Horace Walpole, tells an anecdote which shows to how great an extent …
Old and New London
… of Lepel, Lady Hervey, the friend of Pope and Horace Walpole. Lady Hervey was often a visitor at Buckingham House, … breathed her last." "Princess Buckingham," writes Horace Walpole, "is either dead or dying. She sent for Mr. Anstes, …
Old and New London
… Guards' ParadeFuneral of the Duke of WellingtonRobert Walpole and the CountrymanDover House. At the western end of … as "governor" with a small salary. To this we find Horace Walpole alludes in a tone of pleasant banter when, recording … lady of pleasure, and curse of our nation.' Horace Walpole, eighty years afterwards, speaks of receiving a card …
Old and New London
… in the year 1746. The poet Gray, in a letter to Horace Walpole, dated Burnham, Bucks, 1737, says, "We have old Mr. …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Beccles, who is the present lord. The manor-house, called Walpole Hall, is a mere fragment of a very old mansion. In …
Old and New London
… dramatic author, and the first licensee of the stage under Walpole's Licensing Act. A sermon preached at St. Botolph's … character of "Richard III." with enormous success. Horace Walpole writes his friend Mann about him, but says, "I see …
Survey of London
… of King Charles I's Collection of Pictures, etc., ed. H. Walpole.) P.R.O., Works, 5/17. P.R.O., E. 351/3285. "It is … vj foote square to be seene from the privy Lodgings." Walpole ( Anecdotes of Painting, 1888 edn., II, p. 16) quotes … and fronting westward the Privy Garden." (Note in H. Walpole's edition of Description of the King's Collection of …
Survey of London
… by Vanderdoort himself) has been edited by Horace Walpole. John De Critz, sergeant painter, was kept busily …
Old and New London
… us to attempt a rival account. Whitehall was, however, as Walpole tells us, "the most polite court in Europe;" and if … in the reign of James I. "These pieces," says Horace Walpole, "were sometimes composed at the command of the king …