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
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 512 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...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. TO THE ABB£ X CONSTANTINOPLE, May igth, OS, 1718. You see, sir, these people are not so unpolished... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 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...I 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... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 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... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 396 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...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. To THE ABB£ X . CONSTANTINOPLE, May 19th, OS, 1718. • ••••••• You see, sir, these... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 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...to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own that I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima than the finest piece of sculpture could... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 580 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... | |
| Ada M. Ingpen - 1909 - 506 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... | |
| Ada M. Ingpen - 1912 - 486 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...our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better < laim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own 1 took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous... | |
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