The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... manner . The only injunctions respecting the use of them were that her name was not to be mentioned , and that her own words were as much as possible to be used . All such part of them as I could think at all suitable to the work for ...
... manner . The only injunctions respecting the use of them were that her name was not to be mentioned , and that her own words were as much as possible to be used . All such part of them as I could think at all suitable to the work for ...
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... manners the English people of Lady Mary's time have become to us , in some degree , as aliens and objects of curious observation , whose points of divergence from our standards it is in like manner hard to forgive . It is not of course ...
... manners the English people of Lady Mary's time have become to us , in some degree , as aliens and objects of curious observation , whose points of divergence from our standards it is in like manner hard to forgive . It is not of course ...
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... manner of Pyramus and Thisbe 31 1711. - Prospects of a peace - Domestic affairs - The Spectator 32 March , 1712. - Fire in Arlington - street - Escape of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman - Quarrel between the Duchess of Hamilton and Captain Hero ...
... manner of Pyramus and Thisbe 31 1711. - Prospects of a peace - Domestic affairs - The Spectator 32 March , 1712. - Fire in Arlington - street - Escape of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman - Quarrel between the Duchess of Hamilton and Captain Hero ...
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... manner in which Lady Mary is made to allude to Addison in one of the pretended letters , is altogether inconsistent with the reverence with which she always regarded him ; and the allusion to Pope's residence at Twickenham could not ...
... manner in which Lady Mary is made to allude to Addison in one of the pretended letters , is altogether inconsistent with the reverence with which she always regarded him ; and the allusion to Pope's residence at Twickenham could not ...
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... manner , conveyed away his wife . She was seized in the night by a party of Highlanders , and thenceforth devoted to a secret and dreary imprisonment , from which she only escaped by her death , more than thirteen years afterwards ...
... manner , conveyed away his wife . She was seized in the night by a party of Highlanders , and thenceforth devoted to a secret and dreary imprisonment , from which she only escaped by her death , more than thirteen years afterwards ...
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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.