Her Royal Highness, of course, spoke to me of you.

Baireuth is a delightful retreat, where one enjoys whatever there is agreeable in a Court, without the bother of grandeur.

Brunswick, where I am, has another species of charm.

'Tis a celestial Voyage this of mine, where I pass from Planet to Planet,"-- to tumultuous Paris; and, I do hope, to my unique Maupertuis awaiting me there at last.

[Voltaire, lxxiii.
122-125.]' We have only to remark farther, that Friedrich had again pressed Voltaire to come and live with him, and choose his own terms; and that Voltaire (as a second string to his bow, should this fine Diplomatic one fail) had provisionally accepted.