The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1837 |
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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 2 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Visualizzazione completa - 1837 |
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 2 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Visualizzazione completa - 1837 |
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 2 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Visualizzazione completa - 1837 |
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acquaintance agreeable amuse answer Avignon beauty believe Brescia charms Constantinople COUNTESS OF BRISTOL COUNTESS OF BUTE COUNTESS OF MAR court curiosity daughter DEAR CHILD dear madam dear sister desire dress Duchess Duchess of Montagu Duke Earl endeavour England English entertainment expence France French Genoa give glad Greek hands happiness hear heard honour hope imagine inclination Italy journey Lady Mary Lady Pomfret ladyship Lempster letter live London Lord Lord Bute lover magnificence manner marble marriage married never night obliged palace Paris passed perhaps persuaded pleased pleasure Pomfret present Prince Prince of Saxony reason received Rome sent shew Signora sorry sort stay suppose surprized taste tell thing thither thought tion told town Turin Turkish Turks Twickenham Venice wish woman WORTLEY write wrote young
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Pagina 126 - Who knows if'twas not kindly done ? For had they seen the next year's sun, A beaten wife and cuckold swain Had jointly curs'd the marriage chain ; Now they are happy in their doom, For Pope has wrote upon their tomb.
Pagina 154 - ... rise, my gardens grow; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
Pagina 6 - To confess the truth, my head is so full of my entertainment yesterday, that 'tis absolutely necessary for my own repose to give it some vent. Without farther preface, I will then begin my story. I was invited to dine with the Grand Vizier's lady, and it was with a great deal of pleasure I prepared myself for an entertainment which was never before given to any Christian. I thought I should very little satisfy her curiosity (which I did not doubt was a considerable motive to the invitation) by going...
Pagina 9 - ... four basins with a pleasing sound. The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets, that seemed tumbling down. On a sofa raised three steps, and covered with fine Persian carpets, sat the kiyaya's...
Pagina 154 - I see sometimes Mr. Congreve, and very seldom Mr. Pope, who continues to embellish his house at Twickenham. He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glasses, and they tell me it has a very good effect. I here send you some verses addressed to Mr. Gay, who wrote him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. I stifled them here, and I beg they may die the same death at Paris, and never go further than your closet...
Pagina 122 - The laborers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay. They first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discoloring on their bodies, only that Sarah's eye-brow...
Pagina 12 - Tis certain they have very fine natural voices ; these were very agreeable. When the dance was over, four fair slaves came into the room with silver censers in their hands, and perfumed the air with amber, aloes-wood, and other rich scents.
Pagina 8 - Vizier's; and the very house confessed the difference between an old devotee and a young beauty. It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery...
Pagina 247 - ... gave order for the opening of the door ; upon which they all rushed in, pushed aside their competitors, and placed themselves in the front rows of the gallery. They stayed there till after eleven, when the House rose ; and during the debate gave applause and showed marks of dislike, not only by smiles and winks (which have always been allowed in these cases), but by noisy laughs and apparent contempts ; which is supposed the true reason why poor Lord Hervey spoke miserably.
Pagina 122 - John was now matching several kinds of poppies and field-flowers to her complexion to make her a present of knots for the day. While they were thus employed (it was on the last of July), a terrible storm of thunder and lightning arose, that drove the labourers to what shelter the trees or hedges afforded.