The letters of lady M.W. Montagu during the embassy to Constantinople, 1716-18, כרך 1 |
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acquaintance admiration Adrianople agreeable amongst ancient answer assure Atalantis bagnio beauty Belgrade believe built called charms Christian church compliment Constantinople COUNTESS OF BRISTOL COUNTESS OF MAR Countess of Tripoli court curiosity Danube dare dear sister desire diamonds diversion dress E. W. MONTAGU easy emperor entertained esteem expression eyes face fancy forbear gardens give gold grand-signior Greek hands happiness head hear heart Hewet honour hope Hungary imagine janizaries jewels journey LADY MONTAGU Lady Rich letter liberty live London look Lord madam magnificent manner marble married mosque nature never night obliged opinion palace pashá passed passion Paul Rycaut pleased pleasure received round Sarah Drew seen slaves sort speak sultan suppose sure surprised tell thing thought town travellers truth Turkish Turks vast Vienna whole wish woman women Wortley write young
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עמוד 90 - The labourers, 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 discolouring on their bodies, only that Sarah's...
עמוד 90 - Live well, and fear no sudden fate : When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike '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 51 - I depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart. 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 94 - 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 130 - The small-pox, 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...
עמוד 142 - It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery between two ranks of beautiful young girls, with their hair finely plaited, almost hanging to their feet, all dressed in fine light damasks, brocaded with silver.
עמוד 130 - Ambassador; — and the richer they are, the greater is their danger. Those dreadful stories you have heard of the Plague have very little foundation in truth. I own, I have much ado to reconcile myself to the sound of a word which has always given me such terrible ideas; though I am convinced there is little more in it than in a fever.
עמוד 131 - ... you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell ; and in this manner opens four or five veins.
עמוד 111 - ... very well to be distinguished through it. The antery is a waistcoat, made close to the shape, of white and gold damask, with very long sleeves falling back, and fringed with deep gold fringe, and should have diamond or pearl buttons.
עמוד 132 - I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue for the good of mankind. But that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have...