Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century, מהדורה 1J. T. Merydew Remington, 1888 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Adieu affection ANNE OLDFIELD answer beauty believe Berry bless CELADON charms Clarinda correspondence creature DAVID HUME dear dear dear dearest Soul desire Dr Johnson Eliza esteem Esther Vanhomrigh eyes fear feel fortune friendship GEORGE FARQUHAR give happy hear heart Heaven honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant humour husband imagine kind LADY MARY WORTLEY LAURENCE STERNE leave live London Lord Lord Peterborough love letters lover M'Lehose madam marriage married MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU mind miserable Miss morning nature never night obliged pain passion PEG WOFFINGTON person Piozzi pleased pleasure pray Prue reason received sincerely soon speak STEELE Stella Sterne Strawberry Hill sure sweet Swift SYLVANDER talk tell tender thee thing thou thought tion told truth uneasy Varina Walpole wife wish woman word write written Yorick
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 158 - I am sure I could have borne the rack much better than those killing, killing words of yours. Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more ; but those resolves, to your misfortune, did not last long. For there is something in human nature, that prompts one so to find relief in this world, I must give way to it : and beg...
עמוד 261 - I wish that God may grant you every blessing, that you may be happy in this world for its short continuance, and eternally happy in a better state, and whatever I can contribute to your happiness I am very ready to repay for that kindness which soothed twenty years of a life radically wretched.
עמוד 204 - Kitty, I SHOULD be most unhappy myself, and I know you would be so too, if I did not write to you this post, tho' I have not yet heard a word from you.
עמוד 142 - Are you in a condition to manage domestic affairs, with an income of less perhaps than three hundred pounds a year? Have you such an inclination to my person and humour, as to comply with my desires and way of - living, and endeavour to make us both as happy as you can? Will you be ready to engage in those methods I shall direct for the improvement of your mind, so as to make us entertaining company for each other, without being miserable when we are neither visiting nor visited?
עמוד 64 - It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend business. As for me, all who speak to me find me out, and I must lock myself up, or other people will do it for me. ' A gentleman asked me this morning, " What news from Lisbon ? " and I answered,
עמוד 262 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
עמוד 211 - ... enough to be introduced as a friend to my fair Indian disciple, and to see her eclipse all other nabobesses as much in wealth, as she does already in exterior and (what is far better) in interior merit.
עמוד 143 - I shall be proud in giving all due returns towards making her happy. These are the questions I have always resolved to propose to her with whom I meant to pass my life ; and whenever you can heartily answer them in the affirmative, I shall be blessed to have you in my arms, without regarding whether your person be beautiful, or your fortune large. Cleanliness in [he first, and competency in the other, is all I look for.
עמוד 173 - tis what I should do with great pleasure, and could easily quit London upon your account : but a retirement in the country is not so disagreeable to me, as I know a few months would make it tiresome to you. When people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual interest not to grow weary of one another.
עמוד 138 - England : and how far you will stretch the point of your unreasonable scruples to keep me here, will depend upon the strength of the love you pretend for me. In short, madam, I am once more offered the advantage to have the same acquaintance with greatness that I formerly enjoyed, and with better prospect of interest.