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" 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 469
by Horace Walpole - 1857
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

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,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

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,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

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,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral ..., Volume 6, Parts 11-12

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,...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 2

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,...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

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...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 36-37

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...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 5

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...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 4

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,...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

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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