![]() ![]() The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, The lines used by Walpole were extracted from a passage commemorating the conquests of various Caesars in the region of the Rhine, the Nile and the Euphrates Rivers: ![]() This poem is about the images of the departed Roman empire as depicted on ancient medals and coins:Ĭon vinc'd, she now contracts her vast design Walpole did not write the lines himself: they were adapted from Alexander Pope's Epistle To Mr Addison, occasioned by his Dialogues on Medals and first published in 1720. It is actually no more than an example of his tendency to plagiarise. ![]() This romantic description, with its arcadian undertones, is often taken as an example of Walpole's facility for elegant description. (Note: Sometimes written as of gold when quoted by later writers.) He described the place and the stream which ran through it in some detail as:Ī small Euphrates through the piece is roldĪnd little finches wave their wings in gold. Horace Walpole wrote to his cousin Henry Conway* on 8 June 1747, shortly after he had taken possession of Strawberry Hill still known then as 'Chopped Straw Hall'. ![]()
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