 I cannot imagine why they should not be allowed to do so. I rather think it a virtue to be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The workmanship...  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 259מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 416 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Mabel Duckitt - 1913 - 488 דפים
...be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The...think, has a much better claim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima, than the finest... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 דפים
...be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The...think, has a much better claim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima than the finest... | |
 | Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - 2003 - 364 דפים
...it Virtue to be able to admire without any Mixture of desire or Envy. . . . For me, I am not asham'd to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous...the finest piece of Sculpture could have given me" (350-51). If Lady Mary attempts to deny that she experiences desire upon gazing at Fatima, her excessive... | |
 | 1825 - 344 דפים
...side of her head some bodkins of jewels." aa • • • " The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The...beauteous Fatima, than the finest piece of sculpture could liave given me. She told me the two girls at her feet were her daughters, though she appeared too young... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 דפים
...be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The...think, has a much better claim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima than the finest... | |
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