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A Bookaholic: his letters, his memoirs, his drypoints and, last but not least, his rugs
"The author, Boswell, is a strange being, and, like Cambridge, has a rage of knowing anybody that ever was talked of. He forced himself upon me at Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors, and I see has given a foolish account of all he could pick up from me about King Theodore. He then took an antipathy to me on Rousseau's account, abused me in the newspapers, and exhorted Rousseau to do so too: but as he came to see me no more, I forgave all the rest."
from Horace Walpole's 'Selected Letters', published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1967 (p. 203, 'To Mr. Gray, Feb. 18, 1768)
A Bookaholic: his letters, his memoirs, his drypoints and, last but not least, his rugs
"The author, Boswell, is a strange being, and, like Cambridge, has a rage of knowing anybody that ever was talked of. He forced himself upon me at Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors, and I see has given a foolish account of all he could pick up from me about King Theodore. He then took an antipathy to me on Rousseau's account, abused me in the newspapers, and exhorted Rousseau to do so too: but as he came to see me no more, I forgave all the rest."
from Horace Walpole's 'Selected Letters', published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1967 (p. 203, 'To Mr. Gray, Feb. 18, 1768)