Horace Walpole And His World: Select Passages From His Letters
Horace Walpole And His World: Select Passages From His Letters
Horace Walpole, Leonard Benton Seeley
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Arlington Street, 7th. •* I am just come to town, and find your letter. . . . The approaching death of the Pope will be an event of no consequence. That old mummery is near its con- clusion, at least as a political object. The history of Digitized by Google Sir Horace Mann. 137 the latter Popes will be no more read than that of the last Constantinopolitan Emperors. Wilkes is a more conspicuous personage in modern story than the Ponti- fex Maximus of Rome. The poll for Lord Mayor ended last nigh...t; he and his late Mayor had above 1,900 votes, and their antagonists not 1,500. It is strange that the more he is opposed, the more he succeeds !" The foregoing is an average sample of the bulk of Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann. It was to these Macaulay referred when he said, sneeringly, that Walpole " left copies of his private letters, with copious notes, to be published after his decease." There can be no doubt that their author regarded them as a valuable contribution to the history of his times.
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