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South Atlantic Quarterly (1929) 28 (2): 174–189.
Published: 01 April 1929
...Karl J. Holzknecht Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 HORACE WALPOLE AS DRAMATIST KARL J. HOLZKNECHT New York University THE VARIED career of Horace Walpole is perhaps the greatest example English literature affords of what a man can do who is so fortunate as not to be obliged...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 1967
...Benjamin Boyce Horace Walpole: A Biography . By Ketton-Cremer R. W. . Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press , 1966 . Pp. xv , 317 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 125 by his friend Richard Wagner, from which all were excluded save three...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 513–526.
Published: 01 July 1968
...Lodwick Hartley Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 A Late Augustan Circus: Macaulay on Johnson, Boswell, and Walpole Lodwick Hartley In 1831 young Thomas Babington Macaulay, almost exactly as old as the new century, had already established a considerable repu­ tation...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 January 1962
...Barbara W. Brandon Sir Robert Walpole: The King’s Minister . By Plumb J. H. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1961 . Pp. 363 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 134 The South Atlantic Quarterly Sir Robert Walpole: The King s Minister. By J. H. Plumb...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 387–388.
Published: 01 July 1957
...W. T. Laprade Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman . By Plumb J. H. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1956 . Pp. xv , 407 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 387 told and set with the utmost fidelity against what little is known...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 542–550.
Published: 01 July 1968
... of the history of England in the decades just before and after 1700; his most substantial publication is a life of Walpole. The announced subject for his Ford Lectures at Oxford in 1965 concerned the chief subject of his interest.1 But he remembered that he had commented unfavorably in the English Historical...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 385–387.
Published: 01 July 1957
... that some day a scholar of comparable endowments will devote a similarly intuitive and sympathetically critical study to Richard s nemesis, Henry Tudor. In his own unheroic, nonchivalric, even colorless way he richly deserves it. ARTHUR B. FERGUSON Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman. By J. H...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1929) 28 (3): 281–292.
Published: 01 July 1929
... as sources for the first minute history of the oldest English colony in America; he was the first man in Virginia to report legal cases; he was in­ fluential in the passage of the colony s tobacco inspection law of 1730; and he played an important part in the controversy accompanying Walpole s unsuccessful...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1941) 40 (1): 84–93.
Published: 01 January 1941
... economy is inevitable? To Mr. Chase, apparently, the answer to this question is merely a choice of words a problem in semantics. THT arold THT. THT utcheson. 88 The South Atlantic Quarterly WALPOLE HIMSELF Horace Walpole. By R. W. Ketton-Cremer. London: Duckworth, 1940. Pp. 368. $5.00. The first thing...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (4): 587–605.
Published: 01 October 1973
... Phedra and Hipolitus Lord ha mercy upon us; see what we may all come to!4 Fortunately for the Duchess, she at last came to her senses and sent Lord Sidney on his way. But this young man was not easily dis­ couraged and, according to Walpole s note to Lady Mary s letters, was afterwards in hopes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1971) 70 (2): 203–214.
Published: 01 April 1971
...James M. Kuist Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Conclusion of Gray s Elegy James M. Kuist In June of 1750, when he sent Horace Walpole the manuscript of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Gray called special attention to the concluding passages. The beginning...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 January 1967
... Quarterly collections of art offer a vivid, lively, highly biased record. Mr. KettonCremer s plan is more or less chronological, with generous attention to Walpole s internationally celebrated Strawberry Hill as Walpole kept enlarging it and stuffing it with treasures and curiosities. Walpole s bestknown...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (3): 393–394.
Published: 01 July 1946
... and the first year or two of George I. One is tempted at once to protest carelessly that this interpretation fails to stress sufficiently Walpole and Walpole s policies as a point of attack. But Walpole was already in those early days a thorn in the side of Swift s friends, leader of the Whig opposition...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1915) 14 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 January 1915
... will be at the unnecessary pains to load their heads with. John Carteret possessed the modern languages as well. He was sent in 1719 ambas­ sador extraordinary to Sweden, and the next year, with a like designation, to the Congress of Brunswick. In 1721 he was a Secretary of State. He worked against Walpole, and being able...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1928) 27 (4): 426–434.
Published: 01 October 1928
... a cause without its support in the press. Many persons remembered for other things achieved a large part of their reputation as writers for news­ 428 The South Atlantic Quarterly papers. Among them were Horace Walpole (in his father s time), Fielding, Smollett, Arthur Murphy, Wilkes, and Burke. Others who...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 625–631.
Published: 01 October 1999
... to the need for cultural self-reflection, this sense of the garden as an in­ terpretative experience entails both active and passive dimensions. Just as a garden affects the landscape, something happens to us when we engage with a garden. The first historian ofthe modern garden, Horace Walpole, claimed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (4): 594–595.
Published: 01 October 1951
... university on the expansion of its museums and libraries and its press upon one of the larger publication ventures devoted to the works of a Book Reviews 595 single man in a time notable for such ventures. By making Walpole his career, Mr. Lewis is thus erecting a notable joint memorial to himself and his...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (4): 595–596.
Published: 01 October 1951
...Lewis Leary The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 . Edited by Paige D. D. . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1951 . Pp. 358 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 595 single man in a time notable for such ventures. By making Walpole his...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 1967
... consistency. OHIO UNIVERSITY OSCAR CARGILL Horace Walpole: A Biography. By R. W. Ketton-Cremer. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966. Pp. xv, 317. $6.95. Mr. Ketton-Cremer s delightful, admirable biography of Horace Walpole provides not only an intimate and detailed portrait of its subject but also...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (1): 99–102.
Published: 01 January 1985
..., partly the consequence of sheer chance and luck. Alexander Pope, the great poet, and Horace Walpole, the eccentric hermit and wealthy bachelor son of the prime minister, built their little kingdoms there: respectively Pope s villa and Strawberry Hill ; shortly thereafter, the place gained...