Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER VI.
Lord Nuneham--Madame de Sévigné--Charles Fox--Mrs. Clive and Cliveden--Goldsmith and Garrick--Dearth of News--Madame de Trop--A Bunch of Grapes--General Election--Perils by Land and Water--Sir Horace Mann--Lord Clive--The History of Manners--A Traveller from Lima--The Sçavoir Vivre Club--Reflections on Life--The Pretender’s Happiness--Paris Fashions--Madame du Deffand ill--Growth of London--Sir Joshua Reynolds--Change in Manners--Our Climate 124