excerpt from 'Letter from Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 May 1786' pp. 383 (145 words)
excerpt from 'Letter from Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 May 1786' pp. 383 (145 words)
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I am going to my quiet little hill, after having been in public to-day more than I purposed ever to be again. I attended Princess Amelie to the rehearsal of Handel’s Jubilee in Westminster Abbey, which I had been far from meditating; but, as she had the Bishop of Rochester’s gallery, it was quite easy, and I had no crowd to limp through. The sight was really very fine, and the performance magnificent; but the chorus and kettle-drums for four hours were so thunderful, that they gave me the headache, to which I am not at all subject. Rubinelli’s voice sounded divinely sweet, and more distinctly than at the Opera. The Mara’s not so well, nor is she so much the fashion. I have been but once at the Opera, and twice at the play, this year. |
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