...years later. A very different August visitor of 1748 was Gray. " He is ", wrote Walpole to Montagu, " the worst company in the world — from a melancholy...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily." To Conway he confessed about this time: My present and sole occupation is planting,...

...thirty years later. A very different August visitor of 1748 was Gray. "He is", wrote Walpole to Montagu, "the worst company in the world — from a melancholy...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily." To Conway he confessed about this time : My present and sole occupation is planting,...

...while on that continental tour was due to discrepancy of tastes. Horace wrote to a friend of Gray that "he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen and formed into sentences; his writings are...

...absolutely in your opinion about Gray', a seemingly candid Walpole confessed in September of that year, he is the worst company in the world - from a melancholy turn, from living reclusively, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily - all his words are measured,...