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, until he became painfully aware that he was no longer a match for his clever daughter. She was a furious letter-writer, which occupation, if it sharpened her wit, also developed in her that insatiable intellectual vanity which afterwards became her ruling passion, distinguished her as a Bluestocking from her more modest rivals and prevented her from being as universally liked as a Mrs. Vesey. Her biographer Mr. Huchon says that
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, and was more respected than loved. Sentimentality was not among her weaknesses, her sound practical sense dictated both to herself and to others. She strongly opposed the love-match which her ward Miss Dorothea Gregory--one of the daughters to whom the well-known physician of that name addressed his legacy of advice--asked her permission to make, and the ubiquitous Fanny Burney writes that Mrs. Montagu once asked her,
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, which vexed Fanny's
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, Mr. Crisp, as it
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. Her own marriage (1742) was purely a
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, the husband being considerably older, and a man of great wealth. Mrs. Chapone afterwards called her with reason
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:
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is a good specimen both of her proficiency in the French language and of her quickness of repartee. However, she often descended from the heights of rhetoric, and her affectation of speech seems to have been a weakness into which she was occasionally betrayed by a momentary lapse of her fine judgment. Speaking of Mr. Gray she once said:
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I think he is the first poet of my age; but if he comes to my fireside, I will teach him not only to speak prose, but to talk nonsense, if occasion be.
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At the same time she criticised others freely, which procured her many enemies. Mr. Crisp thought her
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; Wraxall judged that
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; and an essay by Cumberland in the _Observer_ of 1785 describes the
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Feast of Reason at Mrs. Montagu's house in Portman Square, where the lady herself is satirised under the name of
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Vanessa . It describes her as stimulated to charity, affability and hospitality exclusively by the dictates of inordinate vanity, and even accuses her of bribing her critics:
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Authors were fee'd for dedications, and players patronised on benefit nights
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God is the loving father of all
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Queen of the Blues , and Fanny Burney