The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, כרך 2R. Bentley, 1837 |
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acquaintance agreeable amuse answer assure Avignon beauty believe Brescia charms Constantinople COUNTESS OF BRISTOL COUNTESS OF BUTE COUNTESS OF MAR court curiosity daughter DEAR CHILD dear madam dear sister desire dress Duchess Duchess of Montagu Duke Earl endeavour England English entertainment expence France French Genoa give glad Greek hands happiness hear heard honour hope imagine inclination Italy journey Lady Mary Lady Pomfret ladyship letter live London Lord Lord Bute lover magnificence manner marble marriage married Naples never night obliged palace Paris passed perhaps persuaded pleased pleasure Pomfret present Prince Prince of Saxony reason received Rome sent shew Signora sorry sort stay suppose surprized taste tell thing thither thought tion told town Turin Turkish Turks Twickenham Venice wish woman WORTLEY write wrote young
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עמוד 125 - 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 124 - The laborers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay. They first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discoloring on their bodies, only that Sarah's eye-brow...
עמוד 156 - ... rise, my gardens grow; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
עמוד 4 - Vizier's lady, and it was with a great deal of pleasure I prepared myself for an entertainment which was never before given to any Christian. I thought I should very little satisfy her curiosity (which I did not doubt was a considerable motive to the invitation) by going in a dress she was used to see, and therefore dressed myself in the court habit of Vienna, which is much more magnificent than ours.
עמוד 7 - ... four basins with a pleasing sound. The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets, that seemed tumbling down. On a sofa raised three steps, and covered with fine Persian carpets, sat the...
עמוד 6 - Vizier's; and the very house confessed the difference between an old devotee and a young beauty. It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery...
עמוד 154 - The Duke of Wharton has brought his Duchess to town, and is fond of her to distraction ; to break the hearts of all the other women that have any claim upon his. He has public devotions twice a day, and assists at them in person with exemplary devotion ; and there is nothing pleasanter than the remarks of some pious ladies on the conversion of BO great a sinner.
עמוד 124 - John was now matching several kinds of poppies and field-flowers to her complexion to make her a present of knots for the day. While they were thus employed (it was on the last of July), a terrible storm of thunder and lightning arose, that drove the labourers to what shelter the trees or hedges afforded.
עמוד 47 - Marlborough's, and of the same shape, fastened with two roses, consisting of a large ruby for the middle stone, and round them twenty drops of clean diamonds to each. Besides this, her headdress was covered with bodkins of emeralds and diamonds.
עמוד 139 - I think he does, and I am sure this is peculiarly true of the Frenchman ; but he walks merrily, and seems to enjoy the vision, and may he not therefore be esteemed more happy than many of our solid thinkers, whose brows are furrowed by deep reflection, and whose wisdom is so often clothed with a misty mantle of spleen and vapours...