Versailles • gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him,... The Quarterly Review - Page 509edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...short time mistress of the regent, is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...short time mistress of the regent, is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...short time mistress of the regent, is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...short time mistress of the regent, is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that... | |
| 742 pages
...and stone-blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeablene.-s. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles...a week; has everything new read to her; makes new eougs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years.... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...Paris, in January 1766 : — " She is now very old and stone-blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...everything new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, aye, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...Paris, in January 1766 : — " She is now very old and stone-blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...everything new read to her - makes new songs and epigrams, aye, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...short time mistress of the Regent, is now very old and stone-blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a-week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...short time mistress of the Regent, is now very old and stone-blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions, and agreeableness. She...plays, suppers, and Versailles ; gives suppers twice a-week ; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a-week; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay,...admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourseore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him,... | |
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