The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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Page xxx
... tell me I'm in love ; if I am , ' tis a perfect sin of ignorance ; for I don't so much as know the man's name ; " then she adds , " pray tell me the name of him I love , that I may ( according to the laudable custom of lovers ) sigh to ...
... tell me I'm in love ; if I am , ' tis a perfect sin of ignorance ; for I don't so much as know the man's name ; " then she adds , " pray tell me the name of him I love , that I may ( according to the laudable custom of lovers ) sigh to ...
Page xli
... tell how oft I have writ . I will think she remembers me . Balm of Mecca . Polargo . Greek no slaves . Magnificence and dress of Turks . Bagnio civility . French ambassadress . Ceremony . Pomp . Court to me . Weather . One letter to ...
... tell how oft I have writ . I will think she remembers me . Balm of Mecca . Polargo . Greek no slaves . Magnificence and dress of Turks . Bagnio civility . French ambassadress . Ceremony . Pomp . Court to me . Weather . One letter to ...
Page lxii
... tell me if you know anything of Lady Mary Wortley : we have an obscure story here of her being in durance in the Brescian or the Berga- mesco ; that a young fellow whom she set out with keeping has taken it into his head to keep her ...
... tell me if you know anything of Lady Mary Wortley : we have an obscure story here of her being in durance in the Brescian or the Berga- mesco ; that a young fellow whom she set out with keeping has taken it into his head to keep her ...
Page lxv
... tell your father these foolish squabbles . It is the only thing I would keep from his knowledge . I am apprehensive he should imagine some misplaced raillery or vivacity of mine has drawn on me these ridiculous persecutions . " Though ...
... tell your father these foolish squabbles . It is the only thing I would keep from his knowledge . I am apprehensive he should imagine some misplaced raillery or vivacity of mine has drawn on me these ridiculous persecutions . " Though ...
Page xcvi
... tell - tale culprit , in whose ear , watching his oppor- tunity when the king turned from them , he muttered a bitter re- proach , with a round oath to enforce it ; " which I durst not re- sent , " continued she , " for I had drawn it ...
... tell - tale culprit , in whose ear , watching his oppor- tunity when the king turned from them , he muttered a bitter re- proach , with a round oath to enforce it ; " which I durst not re- sent , " continued she , " for I had drawn it ...
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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.