The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... night and reveries by day- Guardian angels - Truths of the heart - Request for a Čir- cassian slave - Friendly advice 280 281 285 288 290 292 Nov. 10 , 1716. - Pleasure in reveries - Mrs . Macfarlane and her lover - Love is blind ...
... night and reveries by day- Guardian angels - Truths of the heart - Request for a Čir- cassian slave - Friendly advice 280 281 285 288 290 292 Nov. 10 , 1716. - Pleasure in reveries - Mrs . Macfarlane and her lover - Love is blind ...
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... night of the Prince of Wales - Agreeable ideas - Mrs . West , and Lord Haddington and Mr. Lindsay -Plain - dealing and hypocrisy - Walpole , William Yonge , and Bubb Dodington - The forlorn state of matrimony- Biddy Noel . • Feb. 1724 ...
... night of the Prince of Wales - Agreeable ideas - Mrs . West , and Lord Haddington and Mr. Lindsay -Plain - dealing and hypocrisy - Walpole , William Yonge , and Bubb Dodington - The forlorn state of matrimony- Biddy Noel . • Feb. 1724 ...
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... night . Observe my vanity . In that letter alone I have fancied myself capable of perceiving the singularity of your cha- racter and the infinite charms of mind . " 1 your Other letters follow , in which M. Rémond intermingles expres ...
... night . Observe my vanity . In that letter alone I have fancied myself capable of perceiving the singularity of your cha- racter and the infinite charms of mind . " 1 your Other letters follow , in which M. Rémond intermingles expres ...
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... 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 . What might have been the fate of Lady Mar in the hands of ...
... 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 . What might have been the fate of Lady Mar in the hands of ...
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... night to finish them . What greater triumph could an author who wrote to the feelings desire ? But then it seems she was guilty of saying that , never having lived in the society of real gentlemen and ladies , he had given his ...
... night to finish them . What greater triumph could an author who wrote to the feelings desire ? But then it seems she was guilty of saying that , never having lived in the society of real gentlemen and ladies , he had given his ...
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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.