9 Metaphors for walpole

But Walpole's was not merely a scholastic education: he was destined for the lawand, on going up to Cambridge, was obliged to attend lectures on civil law.

Horace Walpole, writing of Hagley in Sept. 1753 (Letters, ii. 352), says:'There is extreme taste in the park: the seats are not the best, but there is not one absurdity.

She was seventy years of age when Horace Walpole, at fifty, became her passion.

Horace Walpole, after mentioning that George III's mother, who died in 1772, left but £27,000 when she was reckoned worth at least £300,000, adds:'It is no wonder that it became the universal belief that she had wasted all on Lord Bute.

Horace Walpole was a virtuoso in Gothic art, and in his castle at Strawberry Hill he made a collection of ancient armor, illuminated manuscripts, and bric-a-brac of all kinds.

If authors had a turn for politics, Sir Robert Walpole was an excellent paymaster.

Gray was an enthusiastic scholar; Walpole was then a gay and giddy voluptuary, although predestined to sour down into the most cold-blooded and cynical of gossips.

If he had lived in Paris, if he had been a member of her little clique, subject to the unceasing searchlight of her nightly scrutiny, who can doubt that, sooner or later, Walpole too would have felt 'le fléau de son amitié'?

When Walpole became First Lord of the Treasury, the Duke again became Lord Privy Seal, and held the post until his death.

9 Metaphors for  walpole