The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguRoberts Brothers, 1876 - 407 páginas |
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acquaintance ADRIANOPLE affectionate mother agreeable amusement answer assure beauty Belgrade believe charms confess Constantinople conversation Countess of Bute Countess of Tripoli court daughter DEAR CHILD-I dear sister desire dress Duchess Duchess of Montagu Duke Earl Edward Wortley Montagu endeavor England English entertained esteem fancy father fear fortune give glad hands happy hear heard heart honor hope Horace Walpole imagine janizaries journey Lady Mary LADY MARY PIERREPONT LETTER live London Lord Bute LOUVERE madam magnificent manner married Mary Wortley Montagu ment mind Montagu nature never night obliged occasion opinion Padua passed passion perhaps persuaded pleased pleasure Pope reason received sort surprised taste tell thing thought tion told town truth Turkish Turks Twickenham uneasy Venice wish woman women Wortley write wrote young
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Página 154 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Página 358 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened.
Página 153 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps this very day, in the intervals of their work, they were talking of their...
Página 84 - When I took my leave, two maids brought in a fine silver basket of embroidered handkerchiefs; she begged I would wear the richest for her sake, and gave the others to my woman and interpretess.
Página viii - ... drinking-glass. The company consisting of some of the most eminent men in England, she went from the lap of one poet, or patriot, or statesman, to the arms of another, was feasted with sweetmeats, overwhelmed with caresses, and, what perhaps already pleased her better than either, heard her wit and beauty loudly extolled on every side. Pleasure, she said, was too poor a word to express her sensations ; they amounted to ecstasy : never again, throughout her whole future life, did she pass so happy...
Página 49 - ... tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good ; riches being another word for power, towards the obtaining of which the first necessary qualification is impudence, and (as Demosthenes said of pronunciation in oratory) the second is impudence, and the third, still, impudence. No modest man ever did or ever will make his fortune.
Página 69 - I was in my travelling habit, which is a riding dress, and certainly appeared very extraordinary to them. Yet there was not one of them that showed the least surprise or impertinent curiosity, but received me with all the obliging civility possible.
Página 127 - ... stage was built over a very large canal, and, at the beginning of the second act, divided into two parts, discovering the water, on which there immediately came from different parts two fleets of little gilded vessels, that gave the representation of a naval fight. It is not easy to imagine the beauty of this scene, which I took particular notice of. But all the rest were perfectly fine in their kind. The story of the opera is the...
Página 21 - I take more pains to approve my conduct to myself than to the world ; and would not have to accuse myself of a minute's deceit. I wish I loved you enough to devote myself to be for ever miserable, for the pleasure of a day or two's happiness. I cannot resolve upon it. You must think otherwise of me, or not at all.
Página 174 - I am only in purgatory ; and that after whining and grunting a certain number of years, I shall be translated to so'me more happy sphere, where virtue will be natural, and custom reasonable ; that is, in short, where common sense will reign.