Versailles; gives suppers twice a-week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts... The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Page 469by Horace Walpole - 1857Full view - About this book
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, snppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...She goes to operas, p'.ays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or any body, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds-with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or... | |
| 742 pages
...suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new eougs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one...years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming lettters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy nud... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...penetration in going to the bottom of them, and a pencil that never fails in a likeness — seldom a favourable one. She exacts and preserves, spite...remembers every one that has been made these fourscore jears. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...; gives suppers twice a week ; has everything new read to her - makes new songs and epigrams, aye, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made...and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers." She died in 1780, at the age of eighty-four. Of the Duchess de Choiseul, he says, in the same letter,... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...: gives suppers twice a week ; has everything new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, aye, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made...corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to biro, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers."... | |
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