Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… in all companies. He has succeeded still better in Les Caracteres de la danse,16 to which he has adapted words that express all the characters of love. With all this, he has not the least idea of cheerfulness in conversation; seldom speaks … of which is atoned for by the most interesting sound of voice, and forgotten in the most elegant turn and propriety of expression. Oh! it is the gentlest, amiable, civil, little creature that ever came out of a fairy egg! So just in its … … France … Eloquence … Text taken from The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937-1983), vol. 14, p. 148-157. Full volume (with notes) and full correspondence on the Lewis Walpole Library …
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