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Excerpt from Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Vol. 1 of 4: Now First Collected
In the estimate that has been made of the moral worth of Walpole, in the literary works of the day, there has been too much of supercilious tri?ing. He had certainly great failings; but his pure, zealous, and watchful regard of his father's memory, and his constant, unshaken, and disinterested attachment to general Conway, are redeem ing virtues that ought never to be forgotten - they were not evidenced in acts of mo mentary passion, but from the first to the last hour of a life protracted beyond ordinary limits. But we must not wonder that lite rary men speak slightingly of \valpole;they but echo back the opinion he had previously expressed of them Lalpole was probably the more correct in his estimate, but it is impolitic to irritate men to whom we must eventually refer for character, if we hope or deserve to have one; and Walpole was not indifferent to fame, though he affected to laugh at it.
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