Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… sometimes playing with the King on the carpet ; which, altogether, exhibits such a delightful scene, as would require an Addison's pen, or a Vandyke's pencil, to do justice to it (Llanover, vol. 4, 328). And yet, she still kept a sense of the …
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