Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… in 1780, she describes 'a circle of superior spirits, feeding their own mortal part with an excellent breakfast, and feasting their hearers with the flow of sense!', naming Leonard Smelt and his wife, Elizabeth Carter and Hester Chapone. …
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