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Horace Walpole described Anna's mother in 1765 as an old rough humourist, who passed for a wit.
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Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".
Strawberry Hill House | Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the " Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic revival " style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.
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At Rome, the goddess Necessitas, the divine personification of necessity, was also depicted with a nail, " the adamantine nail / That grim Necessity drives ," as described by the Augustan poet Horace.
John Clerk of Penicuik described it as ' Rather curious than convenient ', whilst Horace Walpole referred to the villa as ' the beautiful model '.
* Horace Ridler (" The Great Omi "), tattooed in a pattern of curved black stripes, often described as zebra-like
Horace Walpole described Barré as " a black, his hair was black robust man, of a military figure, rather hard-favoured than not, young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was a bullet lodged loosely in his cheek, and which gave a savage glare to one eye.
Horace Walpole described him as " a favourite by descent of the Old Whigs " and " errant bigot to the Pelham faction as ever Jacques Clément was to the Jesuits ".
Horace Walpole described Devonshire as possessing " an impatience to do everything, and a fear to do anything, he was always in a hurry to do nothing ".
The marriage between Anne Horton and the Duke of Cumberland was described as a “ conquest at Brighthelmstone ” ( now Brighton ) by Mrs. Horton, " who ", Horace Walpole says, " had for many months been dallying with his passion, till she had fixed him to more serious views than he had intended.
The effect was first described in a paper by Horace Lamb in 1883 for the case of spherical conductors, and was generalised to conductors of any shape by Oliver Heaviside in 1885.
), described by Horace Donisthorpe as " the father of British myrmecology "
Leptacinus intermedius is a European rove beetle, described in 1935 by Horace Donisthorpe.
He was described by Horace Donisthorpe as " the father of British myrmecology " ( the branch of entomology dealing with ants ).
Roberts described working for the Posts legendary editor George Horace Lorimer as follows: " I told him my ideas, which he instantly rejected or accepted ....
The story of the case is described in Daniel Kevles ' 1998 book The Baltimore Case, in a chapter of Horace Freeland Judson's 2004 book The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, and in a 1993 study by Serge Lang, updated and reprinted in his book Challenges ( New York: Springer-Verlag ; 1997 ).
Horace Walpole described her performance at Richmond in 1748 as " deplorable ".
Horace says, for example: " A comic subject is not susceptible of treatment in a tragic style, and similarly the banquet of Thyestes cannot be fitly described in the strains of everyday life or in those that approach the tone of comedy.
One of the most important landmarks in the late Georgian period was the introduction of many new species of trees and flora from around the world, which Horace Walpole described as giving the " richness and colouring so peculiar to the modern landscape ".
The story is used as the scenario of the orchestral work Horace Victorieux by Arthur Honegger, composed in 1920 and described as a ' mimed symphony ' ( symphonie mimée d ' après Tite-Live ) though it was originally conceived as a ballet.
Horace Walpole sarcastically described the drawing room as " worthy of Eve before the fall.
Derided by satirists as " Sir Bullface Doublefee ," and described by Horace Walpole as one who rose from obscure infamy to that infamous fame which will long stick to him, his character was also assailed by " Junius ".
This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' in 1820 on to modern times.
Horace Walpole described Gibbs as being around 1720 as " the architect most in vogue ".
British statesman Horace Walpole referred to the controversy surrounding Jumonville's death as the " Jumonville Affair " and described it as " a volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.
In 1743 Horace Walpole condemned its affectations and described it as such ; "... a club, for which the nominal qualification is having been in Italy, and the real one, being drunk: the two chiefs are Lord Middlesex and Sir Francis Dashwood, who were seldom sober the whole time they were in Italy "
He was described by Horace Walpole, in his Memories, as "… Blackbourn, the jolly old Archbishop of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman ; but he retained nothing of his first profession, except his seraglio.
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