"His pamphlet came out this day sennight, and is far superior to what was expected, even by his warmest admirers. I have read it twice; and though of three hundred and fifty pages, I wish I could repeat every page by heart. It is sublime, profound, and gay. The wit and satire are equally brilliant; and the whole is wise, though in some points he goes too far: yet in general there is far less want of judgement than could be expected from him. If it could be translated—which, from the wit and metaphors and allusions, is almost impossible—I should think it would be a classic book in all countries, except in present France. To their tribunes it speaks daggers; though, unlike them, it uses none."
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Horace Walpole to Mary Berry (8 November 1790), quoted in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Vol. XIV: 1787–1791, ed. Paget Toynbee (1905), pp. 313–314
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