cuando todo germino, cuando
Horace Walpole, "hijo del Primer Ministro del gobierno ingles" y "IV conde de Oxford", con gran clarividencia por haber sabido captar el cambio de sensibilidad que se estaba produciendo y que clamaba una atencion distinguida, inicio la tradicion de la novela gotica con la obra El castillo de Otranto.
In close contexts or passim, repeatedly used words and countless restatements of overarching ideas make for a redundant narrative that lacks the rigorous editing that may have caught misspellings, confusions of proper names ("Henry" for
Horace Walpole [47, 276]), some factual errors, and even some misreadings (such as that regarding the Scottish William Lithgow [148]).
The Walpole's Leap exhibit is curated under the tenets of the brilliant
Horace Walpole, the 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797) an original and forward thinking art historian, architect, letter writer, Member of Parliament, Novelist and Publisher.
Horace Walpole By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss, and work 12 hours a day.
Cannon, one of the earliesi to use the word "serendipity" in science, tells us that it was coined in 1754 by
Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Oxford.
She is the author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995) and is at work on a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled, "Monstrous Pleasures:
Horace Walpole, Opera, and the Conception of Gothic.
See "Letter of Sir Robert Walpole to
Horace Walpole on the Riots Occasioned by the Gin Act," in Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.
The joke that swept the Graduate School that year was that Ralph's notes were more witty, erudite, and charming than the famously witty, erudite, and channing
Horace Walpole himself.
In vicious vein, following a heated conversation on the treatment of Christianity in The Decline and Fall,
Horace Walpole mercilessly satirized Gibbon's misplaced pride in his appearance (and by implication his intellectual achievements): `I well know his vanity, even about his ridiculous face and person, but thought he had too much sense to avow it so palpably.
6) And
Horace Walpole in a letter to Sir Horace Mann on 28 September 1761, within a week of the festivities, asks, "What is the finest sight in the world?
The book stretches from
Horace Walpole to William Godwin, with Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Wollstonecraft providing the peaks in between.
Christopher Anstey's New Bath Guide was first published late in 1766, and immediately delighted
Horace Walpole, who thought it combined the 'easiest wit, the most genuine humour, the most inoffensive satire, the happiest parodies, the most unaffected poetry, and the most harmonious melody in every kind of metre'.
