Horace Walpole/last Years - 1788%e2%80%931797

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    “Patty was a modest maid;
    Patty was of men afraid:
    Patty grew her fears to lose,
    And grew so brave, she lost her nose.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “He sighed with relief. He had got the job. He was safe.
    Putting on his gown, he prepared for the long years to come....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)