excerpt from 'Letter from Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 May 1786' pp. 382 (97 words)
excerpt from 'Letter from Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 May 1786' pp. 382 (97 words)
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Curiosity carried me to a great concert at Mrs. Cosway’s t’other night—not to hear Rubinelli, who sung one song at the extravagant price of ten guineas, and whom for as many shillings I have heard sing half a dozen at the Opera House; no, but I was curious to see an English Earl [Earl Cowper] who had passed thirty years at Florence, and is more proud of a pinchbeck principality and a paltry Order from Wirtemberg, than he was of being a peer of Great Britain, when Great Britain was something.
Curiosity carried me to a great concert at Mrs. Cosway’s t’other night—not to hear Rubinelli, who sung one song at the extravagant price of ten guineas, and whom for as many shillings I have heard sing half a dozen at the Opera House; no, but I was curious to see an English Earl [Earl Cowper] who had passed thirty years at Florence, and is more proud of a pinchbeck principality and a paltry Order from Wirtemberg, than he was of being a peer of Great Britain, when Great Britain was something. |
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