...HORACE WALPOLE, THE PROPRIETOR OF STRAWBERRY HILL. He was the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious, of men. His mind was a hundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered hy mask within mask. When...

...we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious, of men....still as far as ever from seeing the real man. He plaved innumerable parts, and over-acted them all. When he talked misanthropy, he out-Timoned Timon....

...his features covered with mask within mask, " which, when the outer disguise of obvious affecta" tion was removed, you were still as far as ever " from seeing the real man." "Affectation is " the essence of the man. It pervades all his " thoughts, and all his expressions....

...we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His...obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far from seeing the real man. He played innumerable parts, and overacted them all. When he talked misanthropy,...

...bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations — his features covered with mask within mask, which, when the outer disguise of obvious affectation was...were still as far as ever from seeing the real man." — " Affectation is the essence of the man. It pervades all his thoughts and all his expressions....

...bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations — his features covered with mask within mask, which, when the outer disguise of obvious affectation was...were still as far as ever from seeing the real man." — " Affectation is the essence of the man. It pervades all his thoughts and all his expressions....

...affectations," continues Mr. Macaulay. " His features were covered by mask within mask. When the entire disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were...philanthropy he left Howard at an immeasurable distance." What Mr. Macaulay means by his playing innumerable parts is not easy to understand, since Walpole was,...

...frivolous occupations." 3 Macauley says of him that he was "the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men —...a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations." 3 From such a man, who said " that he would rather have written the most absurd lines in Lee, than...

...we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, have last d`z,* ont-Timoned Timon. When he talked philanthropy, he left Howard at an immeasurable distance. He scoffed...

...we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious, of men....inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were high, admits this fact. " C'est une erreur," says he in his Btrnnge memoirs of the Duke of Berri, "de...