The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguA. C. McClurg, 1890 - 302 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Adieu ADRIANOPLE affairs affectionate mother agreeable amusement answer assure Atalantis beauty believe blessing charms compliments to Lord confess Constantinople COUNTESS OF BUTE COUNTESS OF MAR court daughter dear child dear sister desire dress Duchess Earl of Mar endeavor England entertaining Epictetus esteem excuse fancy fear folly fond fortune friendship give glad hands happiness hear heard heart honor hope Horace Walpole husband imagine janizaries journey kind Lady Mary Pierrepont LADY MARY WORTLEY Lady Mary's live London look Lord Bute manner marriage married MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU mind natural never obliged opinion passion perhaps persuaded pleased pleasure poor Pope pounds reason received sense sincere sorry speak suppose sure surprised Tatler tell temn tender things thought tion told town truth uneasy vanity Venice Vienna Walpole wish woman WORTLEY MONTAGU write young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 262 - H. Fielding has given a true picture of himself and his first wife in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, some compliments to his own figure excepted ; and I am persuaded, several of the incidents he mentions are real matters of fact.
עמוד 263 - Fielding has really a fund of true humour, and was to be pitied at his first entrance into the world, having no choice, as he said himself, but to be a hackney writer or a hackney coachman. His genius deserved a better fate ; but I cannot help blaming that continued indiscretion, to give it the softest name, that has run through his life, and I am afraid still remains...
עמוד 284 - The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I would confine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. I must be content with what I can find.
עמוד 157 - I must applaud your good nature in supposing that your pastoral lovers, (vulgarly called Haymakers) would have lived in everlasting joy and harmony, if the lightning had not interrupted their scheme of happiness.
עמוד 113 - ... there with one's clothes on. The two other domes were the hot baths, one of which had cocks of cold water turning into it, to temper it to what degree of warmth the bathers pleased to have.
עמוד x - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
עמוד 107 - ... 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 matter 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 128 - 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 122 - She guessed at my thoughts, and told me that she was no longer of an age to spend either her time or money in superfluities ; that her whole expense was in charity, and her whole employment praying to God. There was no affectation in this speech ; both she and her husband are entirely given up to devotion.
עמוד 65 - You will reflect for my sake you have abandoned the conversation of a friend that you liked, and your situation in a country where all things would have contributed to make your life pass in (the true volupte) a smooth tranquillity.