Quotes by Walpole, Horace

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to t >>

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts >>

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. >>

Quotations about New World

I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singula >>

Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest d >>

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed f >>

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Walpole, Horace