 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 דפים
...open my skirt and shew them my stays . . . for I saw they beleiv'd I was so lock'd up in that machine that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my Husband' (vol. i, p. 314). The conventional contrast between British liberty and Eastern despotism... | |
 | Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - 2006 - 286 דפים
...belt to which only her husband has the key: "I saw they believed I was so locked up in that machine, that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my husband" (Montagu, 59-60). In addition to showing herself as the object of the gaze, and to representing... | |
 | Bernadette Andrea - 2008
...stays, which satisfied them very well, for I saw they believed I was so locked up in that machine, that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my husband.1 — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Adrianople, April 1, 1717 As I suggested in the Introduction,... | |
 | 1763 - 804 דפים
...however, all fo earnf ft in perfuading me, I was at hit forced to open my Ihirt, and mew them my ftays, which fatisfied them very well; for, I faw, they believed...to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my hufbarid. — I was charmed with their civility and beauty, and mould have been very glad to pals more... | |
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I was at last forced to open my shirt, and shew them my stays ; which satisfied them very well ; for, I saw, they believed I was locked up in that machine, and that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my husband. 
