The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... happy Poets - Playing the critic . To Mrs. Thistlethwayte , Jan 4 , 1718. - Mahomet's pigeon- Expected increase of family - The French ambassadress- Dread of fire and plague - Cause of the numerous fires— Beauty of the climate - Turkish ...
... happy Poets - Playing the critic . To Mrs. Thistlethwayte , Jan 4 , 1718. - Mahomet's pigeon- Expected increase of family - The French ambassadress- Dread of fire and plague - Cause of the numerous fires— Beauty of the climate - Turkish ...
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... happy a day . Nor , indeed , could she ; for the love of admiration , which this scene was calculated to ex- cite or increase , could never again be so fully gratified ; there is always some allaying ingredient in the cup , some ...
... happy a day . Nor , indeed , could she ; for the love of admiration , which this scene was calculated to ex- cite or increase , could never again be so fully gratified ; there is always some allaying ingredient in the cup , some ...
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... happy gift of forgetfulness enables many to believe their own assertion . But what said Lady Mary of the actual fact and actual time ? Why , that the four great physicians deputed by government to watch the progress of her daughter's ...
... happy gift of forgetfulness enables many to believe their own assertion . But what said Lady Mary of the actual fact and actual time ? Why , that the four great physicians deputed by government to watch the progress of her daughter's ...
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... happy life , for they were almost always miserably poor , and seldom in a state of quiet and safety . All the world knows what was his imprudence ; if ever he possessed a score of pounds , nothing could keep him from lavishing it idly ...
... happy life , for they were almost always miserably poor , and seldom in a state of quiet and safety . All the world knows what was his imprudence ; if ever he possessed a score of pounds , nothing could keep him from lavishing it idly ...
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... happy , become , when grown up , the curse , the torment , and the disgrace of their lives . Young Wortley hardly waited so long to signalise his propensity to vice and folly ; be- traying from the beginning that surest symptom of ...
... happy , become , when grown up , the curse , the torment , and the disgrace of their lives . Young Wortley hardly waited so long to signalise his propensity to vice and folly ; be- traying from the beginning that surest symptom of ...
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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.