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Quotation by Horace Walpole
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Correspondence Yale edition (1937-83)Correspondence Yale edition (1937-1983)Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795 ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978)Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795 ed. by Lars E. Troide, copyright Yale University Press (1978)The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Patty was a modest maid;
Patty was of men afraid:
Patty grew her fears to lose,
And grew so brave, she lost her nose.
Patty was of men afraid:
Patty grew her fears to lose,
And grew so brave, she lost her nose.
Horace Walpole (1717–1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 108, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).
"Epigram," written in 1785; losing one's nose was a consequence of advanced syphilis.
"Epigram," written in 1785; losing one's nose was a consequence of advanced syphilis.
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