Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… she insists on scolding those she inveigles to her. She has little taste and less knowledge, but protects artisans and authors, and courts a few people to have the credit of serving her dependents. She was bred under the famous Madam e … venture to hate her because she is not rich. She has an old friend who m I must mention, a Monsieur Pondevelle, author of the Fat puni, and the Complaisant, and of those pretty novels, the Comte de Cominge, the Siege of Calais, and …
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