Horace Walpole

He was born in 1717,

Hor­ace Wal­pole’s father died in 1745

Dur­ing this al­ter­ca­tion, some of the vul­gar spec­tat­ors had run to the great church, which stood near the castle, and came back open-mouthed, de­clar­ing that the hel­met was miss­ing from Alf­onso’s statue. Man­fred, at this news, grew per­fectly frantic; and, as if he sought a sub­ject on which to vent the tem­pest within him, he rushed again on the young peas­ant, cry­ing—