Horace Walpole Quote

On his retirement from the House of Commons:

These and the following scenes were what filled me with disgust, and made me quit that splendid theatre of pitiful passions.


Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, Vol. II (1845 edition), p. 10


These and the following scenes were what filled me with disgust, and made me quit that splendid theatre of pitiful passions.

These and the following scenes were what filled me with disgust, and made me quit that splendid theatre of pitiful passions.

These and the following scenes were what filled me with disgust, and made me quit that splendid theatre of pitiful passions.

These and the following scenes were what filled me with disgust, and made me quit that splendid theatre of pitiful passions.