The letters of mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the letters of her correspondents, publ. by M. Montagu, Nide 3 |
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Sivu 2
... reasons ; but I will wait till I see you , and in the mean time my affection will be balanced between the loadstone of incli- nation to find her right , and the attrac- tion of your opinion , which in those things we have conversed upon ...
... reasons ; but I will wait till I see you , and in the mean time my affection will be balanced between the loadstone of incli- nation to find her right , and the attrac- tion of your opinion , which in those things we have conversed upon ...
Sivu 33
... Reason's fundamental laws are as much broken by the one as the other : there is nothing stable in human nature . Folly sometimes has a fit of pru- dence , Wisdom often a fit of folly ; but I own there is great difference in the con ...
... Reason's fundamental laws are as much broken by the one as the other : there is nothing stable in human nature . Folly sometimes has a fit of pru- dence , Wisdom often a fit of folly ; but I own there is great difference in the con ...
Sivu 56
... reason to say so ; Stowe , like a court beauty , is richly adorned , and set off with great cost and contri- vance ; nature is at all the expence for his Amoret , and has lavished on her charms that art can poorly imitate . From Mount ...
... reason to say so ; Stowe , like a court beauty , is richly adorned , and set off with great cost and contri- vance ; nature is at all the expence for his Amoret , and has lavished on her charms that art can poorly imitate . From Mount ...
Sivu 106
... reason that would please a true ancient epicurean , and stoic too . I am sorry I cannot amuse you with any news or chat of the town , but I have not seen any person who could give me infor- mation of that sort . I hear there is great ...
... reason that would please a true ancient epicurean , and stoic too . I am sorry I cannot amuse you with any news or chat of the town , but I have not seen any person who could give me infor- mation of that sort . I hear there is great ...
Sivu 110
... reason , I should have told you long ago that I was much con- cerned at the complaint of your eyes ; but I have been in so many shops to buy what I did not want , and in so many houses to visit people I did not care for , [ 110 ] To the ...
... reason , I should have told you long ago that I was much con- cerned at the complaint of your eyes ; but I have been in so many shops to buy what I did not want , and in so many houses to visit people I did not care for , [ 110 ] To the ...
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admire affectionate friend agreeable amiable amusement arts attention Bath beauty believe Boscawen brother character charmed chearful compliments conversation dear Cousin DEAR MADAM dearest Cousin delight desire Duke dull Dutchess of Portland endeavour esteem faithful French friendship gentle Gilbert West give glad gout Grace happy Hatchlands hear heart Herefordshire hither honour hope humble servant idle imagine kind Lady Lady Sunderland leave leisure letter live London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Granby Lord Sandwich Lord Titchfield melan mind Miss Pitt MONTAGU morning Mount Ephraim never night noble obliged perhaps person pleased pleasure poor post chaise Pray racter reason Sandleford seems shew Sir George Lyttelton Sir Thomas Robinson sister sorry spirits sure tell tender thing thought tion town Tunbridge virtue walk waters Wickham wife wish write
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Sivu 184 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Sivu 51 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Sivu 248 - In this eclogue he gives hints of that spacious style which was to distinguish him, and which, like his own Fame, " With golden wings aloft doth fly Above the reach of ruinous decay, And with brave plumes doth beat the azure sky, Admired of base-born men from far away.
Sivu 339 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt 5 and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his
Sivu 23 - It was late in the evening before we got home, but the silver Cynthia held up her lamp in the heavens, and cast such a light on the earth as shewed its beauties in a soft and gentle light. The night silenced all but our divine Doctor, who sometimes uttered things fit to be spoken in a season when all nature seems to be hushed and hearkening. I followed, gathering wisdom as I went, till I found, by my horse's stumbling, that I was in a bad road, and that the blind was leading the blind ; so I placed...
Sivu 24 - ... hearkening. I followed, gathering wisdom as I went, till I found, by my horse's stumbling, that I was in a bad road, and that the blind was leading the blind. So I placed my servant between the doctor and myself ; which he not perceiving, went on in a most philosophical strain, to the great...
Sivu 10 - The waters,' says Mrs Montagu, ' have raised his spirits to a fine pitch, as your grace will imagine, when I tell you how sublime an answer he made to a very vulgar question. I asked him how long he stayed at the Wells : he said, As long as my rival stayed ; — as long as the sun did.
Sivu 158 - Miss Chudleigh's dress, or rather undress, was remarkable ; she was Iphigenia for the sacrifice, but so naked, the high-priest might easily inspect the entrails of the victim. The Maids of Honour (not of maids the strictest) were so offended they would not speak to her.
Sivu 19 - On his head was a velvet cap, much resembling a black saucepan, and on his side hung a little basket. At last we arrived at the King's Head, where the loyalty of the doctor induced him to alight ; and then, knight-errant-like, he took his damsels from off their palfreys, and courteously handed us into the inn.
Sivu 19 - I rode on in safety, and at leisure to observe the company, especially the two figures that brought up the rear. The first was my servant, valiantly armed with two uncharged pistols; the last was the doctor's man, whose uncombed hair so resembled the mane of the horse he rode, one could not help imagining they were of kin, and wishing for the honour of the family, that they had had one comb betwixt them.