... perfection, the sweets of flattery mingled with the sweets of friendship. Mrs. Thrale,then at the height of prosperity and popularity-with gay spirits, quick wit, showy, though superficial,acquirements, ... drawers, and laying fine clothes in theirproper places. Then the queen was to be powdered and dressed for the day. Twice a week her majesty's hairwas curled and craped; and this operation appears ... as the air of the Pomptine marshes with health of body. From the first day,she espouses the cause of Hastings with a presumptuous vehemence and acrimony quite inconsistent with the modesty and...