The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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.
עמוד 356 - ... 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| מאת | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| עורך | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale |
| מהדורה | מהדורה מעודכנת |
| הוצאה | Roberts Brothers, 1876 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת הרווארד |
| דיגיטלי | 9 פברואר 2008 |
| אורך | 407 עמודים |
| ייצא ציטוט ביביליוגרפי | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |