As warm as his my zeal for you,
Great princess! could I show it:
But though you have a Horace too-
Ah, Madam! he's no poet.

(14.93) To the Countess of Upper Ossory. Oct. 19, 1788. Walpole encloses some verses which he has written to the Miss Berrys, in which is the stanza:

Rome's ancient Horace sweetly chants
Such maids with lyric fire;

Albion's old Horace sings nor paints-
He only can admire.

(14. 335) To the Countess of Upper Ossory. Dec. 10, 1790. I have seen it [the vanity of learning] the case of great lawyers retired from business, who, having taken to reading the classics, have quoted the commonplaces of Horace, which an Etonian of twenty would blush to cite, knowing all his contemporaries were as familiar with them as he.

C. IMPLICIT ALLUSION TO HORACE.

(3. 431) To John Chute. June 8, 1756. My uncle has chosen no motto nor supporters yet. . . . Mr. Fox said to him, 'Why don't you take your family motto?' He replied, 'Because my nephew would say, I think I speak as well as my brother.' I believe he means me.

Cf. E. 1. 4. 9.

(5.64) To Lady Mary Coke. June 3, 1761. But I had a better reason than all these; I was seriously afraid of your hurting yourself, and my having staggered your resolution proves to me, that if our divines make no more converts, it is because they do not feel what they preach. I was eloquent because I spoke from my heart.

Cf. A. P. 102-103.

(5.89) To Sir Horace Mann. July 23, 1761. You left it [England] a private little island, living upon its means. You would find it the capital of the world; and, to talk with the arrogance of a Roman, St. James's Street crowded with nabobs and American chiefs, and Mr. Pitt attended in his Sabine farm by Eastern monarchs and Borealian electors, waiting, till the gout is gone out of his foot, for an audience. There is only a remote suggestion of Horace here-of his descriptions of Rome under Augustus, and of his Sabine farm.

(9.33) To the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway. Aug. 18, 1774. For my part, I wish you was returned to your plough. Your Sabine farm [Park Place] is in high beauty.

(9.148) To the Countess of Upper Ossory. Jan. 21, 1775. In heroic poems it is a rule to begin in the middle, and great poets and great orators are very like in more instances than

one.

Cf. A. P. 148-149.

(10. 208) To Sir Horace Mann. March 17, 1778. [Walpole has been speaking of the American war, and of the threatened war with France.] However, every one must know that a French war is not exactly a compensation for the loss of America. We, the herd, the Achivi, must take the beverage our rulers brew for us.

Cf. E. 1. 2. 14 and 27.

(10. 268) To the Rev. William Mason. June 26, 1778. We, the Achivi, are to be the sufferers, and particularly we the Achivi of these islands.

Cf. E. 1. 2. 14.

I detained my

(13. 231) To Dr. Warton. Dec. 9, 1784. own fourth volume of Painters for nine years, though there is certainly no abuse in it, lest it should not satisfy the children of some of those artists.

Cf. A. P. 388.

(15.371) To Miss Mary Berry, Sept. 12, 1795. have gulped enough of the fountain, etc.

If you

Cf. O. 3. 13. 1; and letter of Aug. 25 (15. 356).1

1 See under Quotation or Reference.