The Castle of Otranto

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He had turned his house at Strawberry Hill, by the Thames, near Twickenham, into a Gothic villa - eighteenth-century Gothic - and amused himself by spending freely upon its adornment with such things as were then fashionable as objects of taste. But he delighted also in his flowers and his trellises of roses, and the quiet Thames. When confined by gout to his London house in Arlington Street, flowers from Strawberry Hill and a bird were necessary consolations. He set up also at Straw berry Hill a private printing press, at which he printed his friend Gray's poems, also in 1758 his own Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, and five volumes of Anecdotes of Painting in England, between 1762 and 1771.

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