Then came being with child, &c., and you see what comes of being with child. Though, after all, I am still of opinion that it is extremely silly to submit to ill-fortune. One should pluck up a spirit, and live upon cordials when one can have no other... The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 188מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 572 דפים
...conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. To THE COUNTESS OF MAR. [September, 1727.] THIS is a vile world, dear sister, and I can...present every thing I like — but, alas ! she is yet in a white frock. At fourteen, she may run away with the butler : — there's one of the blessed consequences... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 580 דפים
...lives roll away glibly enough; but then we make laws, and we follow customs. By the first we cut ofl• our own pleasures, and by the second we are answerable...with a small damsel, who is at present every thing I like—but, alas ! she is yet in a white frock. At fourteen, she may run away with the butler:—there's... | |
| 1902 - 662 דפים
...extremely silly to submit to ill-fortune. One should pluck up a spirit and live upon cordials when one on have no other nourishment. These are my present endeavours,...console myself with a small damsel, who is at present everything I like ; but, alas ! she is yet in a white frock. At fourteen she may run away with the... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 דפים
...spirit and live upon cordials, when one can have no other nourishment. These are my present endeavors, and I run about though I have five thousand pins and...heart. I try to console myself with a small damsel [her daughter, afterward Lady Bute] who is at present everything I like; but, alas, she is yet in a... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 דפים
...spirit and live upon cordials, when one can have no other nourishment. These are my present endeavors, and I run about though I have five thousand pins and...heart. I try to console myself with a small damsel [her daughter, afterward Lady Bute] who is at present everything I like; but, alas, she is yet in a... | |
| George Paston - 1907 - 672 דפים
...have no other nourishment These are my present endeavours, and I run about, tho' I have five hundred pins and needles running into my heart. I try to console myself with a small damsel who is at present everything I like — but alas ! she is yet in a white frock. At fourteen she may run away with the... | |
| George Paston - 1907 - 628 דפים
...have no other nourishment These are my present endeavours, and I run about, tho' I have five hundred pins and needles running into my heart. I try to console myself with a small damsel who is at present everything I like — but alas ! she is yet in a white frock. At fourteen she may run away with the... | |
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