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Hace 3 días · No. 45, on the west side of the square, was the house of the great Lord Clive, the founder of our Indian Empire—"that second Kouli Khan," as Horace Walpole styles him. Sated with success and honours, his restless spirit seems to have enfeebled his nervous system, and there is too much reason to fear that he fell by his own hand, in November ...
Hace 2 días · Hugh Walpole. Walpole c. 1920–1925. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and ...
Hace 2 días · También era un gran acuñador de definiciones para palabras imposibles, la mejor de las cuales es la de un concepto inglés que sir Horace Walpole se inventó en una hermosa carta del siglo XVIII ...
Hace 9 horas · Horace Walpole, man of letters and member of Parliament, was in bed in central London. Three days later, he reported to a friend outside London: “On a sudden I felt my bolster lift up my head; I thought somebody was getting from under my bed, but soon found it was a strong earthquake, that lasted near half a minute, with a violent vibration and great roaring” (Walpole, 1906 , pp. 198–199).
Hace 4 días · She was the author of those charming, lively, and witty letters, written at Constantinople, and addressed by Lady Mary to friends at home, descriptive of Turkish life and society, and in which, it has been said, she displays "the epistolary talents of a female Horace Walpole."
Hace 2 días · Horace Walpole, in announcing the marriage to the Miss Berrys, tells them that "Sir William has just married his gallery of statues," alluding to the fact that his wife used to sit as a model to artists. Here, too, was married in the year 1839, the Marquis of Douro (now Duke of Wellington).
Hace 1 día · In 2017, the Horace Walpole Library loaned the portrait of Theodosia Burr Alston to Museum of the Albemarle for a six-month period, during which it hung in the museum’s “My Story” exhibit ...
