Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… not tell you that the lower is galante, and still has pretensions. The upper is very sensible too, and has a measured eloquence that is just and pleasing—but all is spoiled by an unrelaxed attention to applause. You would think she was … fagots. The former out-chatters the Duke of Newcastle; and the latter, Madam e de Gisors, exhausts Mr Pitt's eloquence in defence of the Archbishop of Paris. Monsieur de Nivernois lives in a small circle of dependent admirers, and … understandings; some of them with wit, or with softness, or very good sense." … Correspondence … Women … France … Eloquence … Text taken from The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven: Yale University Press, …
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