The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... called the " Schemers " -Suicide of Lord Teynham - Marriage of Mrs. PAGE 351 Strickland No date . Superfluous diamonds - Madame de Broglie - Lord Clare and the ladies - The Duke and Duchess of Wharton . 355 Jan. 1725. - Vanity and ...
... called the " Schemers " -Suicide of Lord Teynham - Marriage of Mrs. PAGE 351 Strickland No date . Superfluous diamonds - Madame de Broglie - Lord Clare and the ladies - The Duke and Duchess of Wharton . 355 Jan. 1725. - Vanity and ...
Page xxxii
... called it - alarmed him more . Such talents could paint their owner in any colour she was pleased to wear . She had once unfortunately told his sister that it was as easy to write kindly to a hobby - horse as to a woman , nay , or a man ...
... called it - alarmed him more . Such talents could paint their owner in any colour she was pleased to wear . She had once unfortunately told his sister that it was as easy to write kindly to a hobby - horse as to a woman , nay , or a man ...
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... called " One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope , " published in 1730 ; which explains the appearance of a still more savage attack in his Imitation of the first Satire of the Second Book of Horace , under the name of Sappho . Pope , indeed ...
... called " One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope , " published in 1730 ; which explains the appearance of a still more savage attack in his Imitation of the first Satire of the Second Book of Horace , under the name of Sappho . Pope , indeed ...
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... called for them . The composition cost her no pains ; she had the gift of writing freely in the first words that presented themselves ; so that the fair pages of the diary seldom betrayed a blot or an erasure . Both her daughter 1 Lord ...
... called for them . The composition cost her no pains ; she had the gift of writing freely in the first words that presented themselves ; so that the fair pages of the diary seldom betrayed a blot or an erasure . Both her daughter 1 Lord ...
Page lxxxix
... called her ) -according to her description a beautiful , innocent , well - meaning girl , but endowed with only a moderate portion of sense ; giddy , thought- less , vain , open to flattery , utterly ignorant of the world ; in short ...
... called her ) -according to her description a beautiful , innocent , well - meaning girl , but endowed with only a moderate portion of sense ; giddy , thought- less , vain , open to flattery , utterly ignorant of the world ; in short ...
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Page 185 - I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue, for the good of mankind.