Strawberry Hill from the Thames.
Selwyn Acknowledges the "Sovereignty of ThePeople."
"A Treasure for a Lady"—Sheridan and theLawyer.
Theodore Hook's Engineering Frolic.
Sydney Smith's Witty Answer to the Old ParishClerk.
The Commoners of England.—Horace's Regret for theDeath of his Mother.— Little Horace in ArlingtonStreet.—Introduced to George I.— CharacteristicAnecdote of George I.—Walpole's Education.—SchoolboyDays.—Boyish Friendships.—Companionship ofGray.—A Dreary Doom.— Walpole's Description of YouthfulDelights.—Anecdote of Pope and Frederic of Wales.—ThePomfrets.—Sir Thomas Robinson's Ball.—An AdmirableScene.—Political Squibs.—Sir Robert's Retirement fromOffice.—The Splendid Mansion of Houghton.—Sir Robert'sLove of Gardening.—What we owe to the 'GrandesTours.'—George Vertue.—Men of One Idea.—The NoblePicture-gallery at Houghton.—The 'Market Pieces.'— SirRobert's Death.—The Granville Faction.—A very goodQuarrel.— Twickenham.—Strawberry Hill.—TheRecluse of Strawberry.—Portraits of the DigbyFamily.—Sacrilege.—Mrs. Darner's Models.—The LongGallery at Strawberry.—The Chapel.—'A Dirty LittleThing.'—The Society around Strawberry Hill.—AnneSeymour Conway.—A Man who never Doubted.—Lady SophiaFermer's Marriage.—Horace in Favour.—Anecdote of SirWilliam Stanhope.—A Paper House.—Walpole'sHabits.—Why did he not Marry?— 'Dowagers as Plenty asFlounders.'—Catherine Hyde, Duchess ofQueensberry.—Anecdote of Lady Granville.—KittyClive.—Death of Horatio Walpole.—George, third Earl ofOrford.—A Visit to Houghton.—FamilyMisfortunes.—Poor Chatterton.—Walpole's Concern withChatterton.— Walpole in Paris.—Anecdote of MadameGeoffrin.—'Who's that Mr. Walpole?'—The MissBerrys.—Horace's two 'Straw Berries.'—Tapping a NewReign.—The Sign of the Gothic Castle.—Growing Old withDignity.— Succession to an Earldom.—Walpole's LastHours.—Let us not be Ungrateful.
A Love of Horrors.—Anecdotes of Selwyn'sMother.—Selwyn's College Days.—OratorHenley.—Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak.—The Profession of aWit.—The Thirst for Hazard.—Reynolds'sConversation-Piece.—Selwyn's Eccentricities andWitticisms.—A most Important Communication.—An AmateurHeadsman.—The Eloquence of Indifference.—Catching aHousebreaker.—The Family of the Selwyns.—The Man of thePeople.— Selwyn's Parliamentary Career.—TrueWit.—Some of Selwyn's Witty Sayings.—The Sovereignty ofthe People.—On two kinds of Wit.—Selwyn's Home forChildren.—Mie-Mie, the Little Italian.—Selwyn's LittleCompanion taken from him.—His Later Days andDeath.
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