Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M------e: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe ...T. Cadell, 1784 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 6
עמוד 221
... SMILINDA and CARDELIA . CARDELIA . THE Baffette - table spread , the Tallier come ; Why stays Smilinda in the dreffing - room ? Rife , penfive nymph ! the tallier waits for you : SMILINDA . Ah ! madam , fince my Sharper is untrue , I ...
... SMILINDA and CARDELIA . CARDELIA . THE Baffette - table spread , the Tallier come ; Why stays Smilinda in the dreffing - room ? Rife , penfive nymph ! the tallier waits for you : SMILINDA . Ah ! madam , fince my Sharper is untrue , I ...
עמוד 222
... SMILINDA . Is that the grief which you compare with mine ? With ease the fmiles of Fortune I refign : Would all my gold in one bad deal were gone ; Were lovely Sharper mine , and mine alone . CARDELIA . A lover loft is but a common care ...
... SMILINDA . Is that the grief which you compare with mine ? With ease the fmiles of Fortune I refign : Would all my gold in one bad deal were gone ; Were lovely Sharper mine , and mine alone . CARDELIA . A lover loft is but a common care ...
עמוד 223
... SMILINDA . This fnuff - box , once the pledge of Sharper's love , When rival beauties for the prefent ftrove ; At Corticelli's he the raffle won ; Then first his paffion was in public shown : Hazardia blufh'd , and turn'd her head afide ...
... SMILINDA . This fnuff - box , once the pledge of Sharper's love , When rival beauties for the prefent ftrove ; At Corticelli's he the raffle won ; Then first his paffion was in public shown : Hazardia blufh'd , and turn'd her head afide ...
עמוד 224
... SMILINDA . How many maids have Sharper's vows deceiv'd s How many curs'd the moment they believ'd ? Yet his known falfehoods could no warning prove ? Ah ! what is warning to a maid in love ? CARDELIA . But of what marble muft that ...
... SMILINDA . How many maids have Sharper's vows deceiv'd s How many curs'd the moment they believ'd ? Yet his known falfehoods could no warning prove ? Ah ! what is warning to a maid in love ? CARDELIA . But of what marble muft that ...
עמוד 225
... SMILINDA . ? What more than marble must that heart compose , Can hearken coldly to my Sharper's vows ? That when he trembles , when his blushes rise , When aweful love ... SMILINDA . 1 SMILINDA . Soft Simplicetta doats upon a beau ; ( 225 )
... SMILINDA . ? What more than marble must that heart compose , Can hearken coldly to my Sharper's vows ? That when he trembles , when his blushes rise , When aweful love ... SMILINDA . 1 SMILINDA . Soft Simplicetta doats upon a beau ; ( 225 )
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affured agreeable almoſt anſwer aſk Baffa Bagnio beauty becauſe boaſt breaſt charms Chriftians Conftantinople curiofity daugh dear defigned defire drefs eaſy efteem Engliſh eyes fafe faid falfe fame faſhion fecret feem feen ferve fhall fhew fhort fhould fide figh filk fince firft firſt fituation flaves fmile fofa fome foul friendſhip ftill ftone fubject fuch fuppofe fure give greateſt Greek happineſs heart herſelf honour houfe houſe huſband ladies laft laſt leaſt lefs letter live loft lover marble Mary Wortley Montague miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never nymph obferve paffed paffion Paul Rycaut pleaſed pleaſure praiſe preſent purſue reaſon reft Sarah Drew ſay ſee ſeem ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhe SILLIANDER SMILINDA ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtay ſtill taſte tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion Turkiſh Turks underſtanding uſe vifit whofe whoſe wiſh
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 25 - ... close joined together, of the most lively green, perfectly matched, every one as large as a half-crown piece, and as thick as three crown pieces ; and another of small emeralds, perfectly round. But her earrings eclipsed all the rest. They were two diamonds, shaped exactly like pears, as large as a big hazel-nut.
עמוד 26 - European queen has half the quantity ; and the empress's jewels, though very fine, would look very mean near hers. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, and the hafts set with diamonds.
עמוד 263 - No pedant, yet learned ; no rake-helly gay, Or laughing, because he has nothing to say ; To all my whole sex obliging and free, Yet never be fond of any but me ; In public preserve the decorum that's just, And shew in his eyes he is true to his trust.
עמוד 77 - I don't expect from you the insipid railleries I should suffer from another in answer to this letter. You know how to divide the idea of pleasure from that of vice, and they are only mingled in the heads of fools. But I allow you to laugh at me for the sensual declaration in saying, that I had rather be a rich effendi, with all his ignorance, than sir Isaac Newton with all his knowledge.
עמוד 263 - But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of repentance for moments of joy. Oh ! was there a man (but where shall I find...
עמוד 76 - They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some science to which we can never attain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves.
עמוד 172 - French manners and characters, though this I believe would require but little study, as there is no great depth in either. It appears, on a superficial...
עמוד 260 - tis by far the wifer courfe, Superior art mould meet fuperior force : Hear, but be faithful to your intereft ftill : Secure your hearts — then fool with whom you will.
עמוד 233 - And orerfeen the card he would have play'd. * The bold and haughty by fuccefs made vain, Aw'd by my eyes, have trembled to complain : The bafhful 'Squire touch'd by A.
עמוד 25 - English ribbon, entirely covered with diamonds. Round her neck she wore three chains, which reached to her knees: one of large pearl, at the bottom of which hung a fine coloured emerald, as big as a...