 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 512 pagine
...takes off from the happiness of life ; I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings which ought...laugh at a puppet-show, and at the same time know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are generally wrong. Ignorance... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 484 pagine
...takes off from the happiness of life; I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings which ought...laugh at a puppet-show, and at the same time know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are generally wrong. Ignorance... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 546 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...with what one despises ? I can laugh at a puppet-show ; at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 pagine
...guiltless, Lady Mary thus writes to her thoroughly respectable but somewhat pragmatical lover : — " The pretty fellows you speak of, I own, entertain...General notions are generally wrong. Ignorance and folly arc thought the best foundations for virtue, as if not knowing what a good wife is was necessary to... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1876 - 416 pagine
...takes off from the happiness of life ; I hate the noise- and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings which ought...it impossible to be diverted with what one despises *. 1 can laugh at a puppet-show, and at the same time know there is nothing in it worth my attention... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 574 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...with what one despises ? I can laugh at a puppet-show ; at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...with what one despises ? I can laugh at a puppet-show ; at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet-show ; at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...blessings. The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain nie sometimes; but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet-show... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 pagine
...the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to...with what one despises ? I can laugh at a puppet-show ; at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. General notions are... | |
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... twenty thousand, the first would be my choice. There is something of an unavoidable embarras in making what is called a great figure in the world; [it] takes off from the happiness of life... 
