Women of Letters, כרך 1R. Bentley, 1894 A collection of biographies of five English women authors supplemented by diary entries and selections from the authors' writings. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance admiration affection afterwards Agnes amongst amusement beauty Berry's brother called charming correspondence Countess Court dance daughter dear death Delany Delany's delight diary dress Duchess of Portland Duke Earl England English eyes fashion father favourite fortune friends garden give graceful happy hear heart honour hope Horace Walpole humour husband Joanna Baillie King Lady Cowper Lady Hervey Lady Llanover Lady Mary Lady Mary's letters literary lived London look Lord Bristol Lord Cowper Lord Hervey Lord Houghton Lord Macartney Madame Madame de Staël manner Margaret marriage married Mary Berry mind Miss Berry Montagu mother never Newcastle Pendarves person pleasure Pope Prince Princess of Wales Queen says Lady Anne sister society spirits Strawberry Hill taste tell things thought told wife wish woman women Wortley writes wrote young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 166 - Whose laughs are hearty, though his jests are coarse, And loves you best of all things - but his horse. In some fair ev'ning, on your elbow laid, You dream of triumphs in the rural shade; In pensive thought recall the fancied scene, See coronations rise on ev'ry green ; Before you pass th...
עמוד 32 - Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
עמוד 129 - I was so struck with admiration that I could not for some time speak to her, being wholly taken up in gazing. That surprising harmony of features, that charming result of the whole ! that exact proportion of body ! that lovely bloom of complexion unsullied by art ! the unutterable enchantment of her smile — But her eyes ! — large and black, with all the soft languishment of the blue ! every turn of her face discovering some new grace.
עמוד 155 - I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it. Your youngest son is perhaps at this very moment riding on a poker with great delight, not at all regretting that it is not a gold one, and much less wishing it an Arabian horse which he would not know how to manage.
עמוד 80 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for foxhunters and bear abundance of ruddy complexioned children.
עמוד 127 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
עמוד 34 - Duchesse hath been a good, comely woman, but her dress so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration.
עמוד 44 - I answer that it is true, that 'tis to no purpose to the readers, but it is to the authoress, because I write it for my own sake, not theirs. Neither did I intend this piece for to delight, but to divulge; not to please the fancy, but to tell the truth, lest after-ages should mistake, in not knowing I was daughter to one Master Lucas of St.
עמוד 224 - The night silenced all but our divine doctor, who sometimes uttered things fit to be spoken in a season when all nature seems to be hushed and hearkening. I followed, gathering wisdom as I went, till I found, by my horse's stumbling, that I was in a bad road, and that the blind was leading the blind. So I placed my servant between the doctor and myself; which he not perceiving, went on in a most philosophical strain, to the great...
עמוד 125 - They resemble one another as Mrs. Salmon's court of Great Britain, and are in as much danger of melting away by too nearly approaching the fire.