Justify the faith that Miss Waddell has in
you.
Does it become us, at pastthreescore each, to be
saying fine things to one another?
FeltonHervey, his two daughters and a favourite
footman and add, I hope itis not true.
For Horace Walpole was by temperament an amateur.
Instead of letters posterity will have confessions, diaries,notebooks, like M. And
what greater boon can any writer ask than to be trouncedby Lord Macaulay? It was
this common passion that brought the two friends togetheragain. The imagination of
the novelist must often fail; but the historian canrepose himself upon
fact.
It would be the work indeed of two other
men.
Against Colesmonolithic passion his own appears
frivolous and flimsy. Shades of meaning revealthemselves; the pompous language
becomes delicate and exact.
Yet it may be asked, what has the name of Coles
cooks sister got to dowith Horace Walpole? Oragain, One loves to find people care
for one, when they can have noview in it?
Without haste or effort he swingshis lantern where
he chooses. But neither dog nor guinea fowl seriously distracted him.
The ostrichs neck is three feet long,and composed
of seventeen vertebrae. Lewis has broughthis magnificent work to an end, to say what
indeed Horace Walpole was.
The richness, the variety of the scene absorb us.
Nobody is very good, but thennobody is very bad. Yet it may be asked, what has the
name of Coles cooks sister got to dowith Horace Walpole? ThusMann stood for
politics; Gray for literature; Montagu and Lady Ossoryfor society.
Alas, wherever I look I seeblight and mildew. She
sees theneighbours through the light of your eyes. The cupid and the monkey had each
settheir stamp on Horace Walpoles wax. The ostrichs neck is three feet long,and
composed of seventeen vertebrae.
Nevertheless, Cole was by no means without
distresses of his own.
But it is futile to make such contradictions clash.
All these are marks of a thin-bloodedpoverty-stricken disposition. Why, to take one
instance only, is notthe name of Coles temporary cooks sister divulged?
Coles niece was the daughter of acheesemonger;
Horaces niece married a Prince of the Blood Royal.
The ostrichs neck is three feet long,and composed
of seventeen vertebrae.
Again, hesuffered tortures when, showing
Dr.
Theinfallibility of historians is gravely mocked.
The Historian and theGibbon go hand in hand.