 | 1804 - 574 pagine
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...with what she gives, but strive to break through her law?, by affecting a perpetuity of youth, which appears to me as little desirable at present as the... | |
 | 1804 - 994 pagine
...formerlv a terrifying view to me, that I should one aav be an old woman. I now find that »ature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only unhappy who will not be contented witii what she gives, hut strive to break through her laws, by affecting a perpetuitv of yoBth, which... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1805 - 296 pagine
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman, I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon. M. WORTLEY. TO THE COUNTESS O£ BUTE. Venice, March 22, 1756. I HAVE received but this raorrting tliC... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pagine
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...appears to me as little desirable at present as the hahies do to you, that were the delight of your infancy. I am at the end of my paper, which shortens... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pagine
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon. M. WoUTLEY. TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, March 22, I HAVE received but this morning the first box... | |
 | 1821 - 346 pagine
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon. XCV. TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, March 2S, 1766. I HAVE received but this morning the first box... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 pagine
...should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those arc only unhappy who will not be contented with what she...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon of, dear child, your most affectionate mother.' The letters to Lady Bute are her best, and that for... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 358 pagine
...day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those alone are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives...appears to me as little desirable at present as the dolls do to you, that were the delight of your infancy.' She was happy, you see ; yet she had no very... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 250 pagine
...day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those alone are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives...which appears to me as little desirable at present a» the dolls do to you, that they were the delight of your infancy.' She was happy, you see ; yet... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 454 pagine
...be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only S 2 unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives,...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon. M. WOKTLEY. TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. Venice, March 22, 1756. I have received, but this morning, the... | |
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... so. There is a quiet after the abandoning of pursuits, something like the rest that follows a laborious day. I tell you this for your comfort. It was formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has... 
