Complete Works of Thomas Gray by Thomas Gray

Author:Thomas Gray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

[To Thomas Ashton, from Paris, May, 1739]

. . . We have seen here your “Gustavus Vasa” that had raised the general expectation so high, long ago. A worthy piece of prohibited Merchandise, in truth! The Town must have been extreme mercifully disposed; if for the sake of ten innocent lines that may peradventure be picked out, it had consented to spare the lives of the ten thousand wicked ones, that remain. I don’t know what condition your Stage is in, but the French is in a very good one at present. Among the rest they have a Mademoiselle Dumenil whose every look and gesture is violent Nature, she is Passion itself, incarnate.

I saw her the other Night do the Phaedra of Racine, in a manner which affected me so strongly, that as you see, I can’t help prattling about her even to you, that do not care two Pence. . . .

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