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“He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.”

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

What could be more opposite than "the self-sequestered, melancholy Gray," and the eager, volatile Walpole, of whom Lady Townshend said, when some one talked of his good spirits, "Oh, Mr. Walpole is spirits of hartshorn."

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter