The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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Page xxxii
... speaking and sober discussion of their position and prospects , has struck most readers . The early letters are , indeed , altogether unlike what a young lady of twenty might be expected to write to her lover ; but the writer is ...
... speaking and sober discussion of their position and prospects , has struck most readers . The early letters are , indeed , altogether unlike what a young lady of twenty might be expected to write to her lover ; but the writer is ...
Page cx
... speak truth , were decided love - letters , composed in the exaggerated style of Scuderi's romances , and crammed with the most fulsome com- pliments . Her answers ( mostly printed ) show that she treated this high - flown language with ...
... speak truth , were decided love - letters , composed in the exaggerated style of Scuderi's romances , and crammed with the most fulsome com- pliments . Her answers ( mostly printed ) show that she treated this high - flown language with ...
Page cxi
... speak to the point so much more positively , said she was certain that no such meeting had ever taken place beneath her father's roof . " If he could have dreamed of inviting them at the same time ( said she ) , which his good breeding ...
... speak to the point so much more positively , said she was certain that no such meeting had ever taken place beneath her father's roof . " If he could have dreamed of inviting them at the same time ( said she ) , which his good breeding ...
Page cxiv
... speak truth , were seldom few in number , only knew that there had been an old feud between her , Lady Hervey , and Lady Hervey's friend , Mrs. ( or Lady ) Murray ; the particulars of which , forgotten even then by everybody but ...
... speak truth , were seldom few in number , only knew that there had been an old feud between her , Lady Hervey , and Lady Hervey's friend , Mrs. ( or Lady ) Murray ; the particulars of which , forgotten even then by everybody but ...
Page cxx
... speaking of ; while she liked to dilate upon the first arrival of the present royal family , and would de- scribe with great glee many little circumstances of their ways manners which were new and somewhat uncouth to English eyes . She ...
... speaking of ; while she liked to dilate upon the first arrival of the present royal family , and would de- scribe with great glee many little circumstances of their ways manners which were new and somewhat uncouth to English eyes . She ...
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