The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 10 (of 12)

by William Hazlitt

LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE

A review of Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, Esq. From the year 1736 to 1770, published in 1818. This and other volumes of Walpole’s correspondence were reprinted in Peter Cunningham’s collected edition of Walpole’s Letters (9 vols., 1857–1859), where the passages quoted by Hazlitt may be found.

PAGE [159]. Princess Amelia. George II.’s daughter. See Walpole’s Letters, passim. George Selwyn. George Augustus Selwyn (1719–1791), the wit, Walpole’s ‘oldest acquaintance and friend.’ Mr. Chute. John Chute (1703–1776), a great friend of Walpole’s. See especially a letter to Sir Horace Mann, 27 May, 1776. [160]. ‘Of outward show,’ etc. Paradise Lost, VIII. 539. Pam. The Knave of Clubs, and the best trump at one form of Loo.