 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 דפים
...up of all nations ; and when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. A Hungarian servant takes your...by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you bave changed your name five times without the expense of an act of parliament.' In a letter written... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 600 דפים
...up of all nations ; and when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. A Hungarian servant takes your...parliament.' In a letter written after Lady Mary's death, the sате writer says : ' Lady Mary W. Montagu returned to England, as it were, to finish where she had... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 דפים
...else. Her domestic establishment is made up of all nations, and when you get into her drawing-room you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of...times without the expense of an Act of Parliament." This strange personage, the most amusing letter-writer of her time, a graceful poetess and essayist,... | |
 | 1873 - 914 דפים
...you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door j he gives it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman...times, without the expense of an act of Parliament." " I was told " (Mrs. Montagu writes from Edinburgh) " Mr. Gray was rather reserved when he was in Scotland,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - 1873 - 400 דפים
...when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door : he...Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that, by the K time you get to her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times, without the expense... | |
 | 1877 - 796 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...times without the expense of an act of parliament. ner on, Horace Walpole wrote to Mann :— " Lady Mary is deShe brought over a cancer in her breast,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 422 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...times without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Lady Mary's return to her native country was probably connected with the settlement of the affairs... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...times without the expense of an Act of Parliament' Lady Mary died on the 2ist of August 1762. The direct cause of her death was cancer, which, with indomitable... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 דפים
...a house there and fills it with servants. A cousin, speaking of a call upon her, says: " It is like the Tower of Babel ; a Hungarian servant takes your...times, without the expense of an Act of Parliament." • Dilke ; Papers, etc., vol. it pp. 354-5. Horace Walpole pays her a visit, and says, " she was old,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 דפים
...when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he...times without the expense of an Act of Parliament." [See Moy THOMAS, Life and Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu."] Hanson's, Berkeley Square — went... | |
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... of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he gives it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you... 
