Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER V.
The Gout--Visits to Paris--Bath--John Wesley--Bad Weather--English Summers--Quitting Parliament--Madame du Deffand--Human Vanity--The Banks of the Thames--A Subscription Masquerade--Extravagance of the Age--The Pantheon--Visiting Stowe with Princess Amelia--George Montagu--The Countess of Ossory--Powder-Mills Blown up at Hounslow--Distractions of Business and Pleasure 99