The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volumen1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 416 páginas |
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acquaintance admiration Adrianople agreeable amongst appears assure beauty Belgrade believe called CHAP charms Constantinople Countess COUNTESS OF BRISTOL COUNTESS OF MAR court curiosity daughter dear madam dear sister desire dress Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke E. W. MONTAGU Earl Edward Wortley Montagu England English entertained esteem eyes fancy favour give Greek happiness hear heart honour hope imagine King Lady Mary Pierrepont Lady Mary Wortley Lady Mary's ladyship letter live London look Lord Halifax Lord Hervey Lord Townshend magnificent manner marriage married mind nature never night obliged occasion opinion passed passion Paul Rycaut person Pierrepont pleased pleasure Pope present reason received speak suppose sure surprised tell thing thought told town truth Turkish Turks Twickenham Vienna Walpole Whigs wife wish woman women Wortley Montagu Wortley's write young
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Página 251 - People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Página 251 - 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. But that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them.
Página 257 - ... a soft perfume, increased by a white marble fountain playing sweet water in the lower part of the room, which fell into three or four basins with a pleasing sound. The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets that seemed tumbling down. On a sofa, raised three steps, and covered with fine Persian carpets, sat the kiyaya's lady, leaning on cushions of white satin, embroidered...
Página 259 - I cannot imagine why they should not be allowed to do so. I rather think it a virtue to be able to admire without any mixture of desire or envy. The gravest writers have spoken with great warmth of some celebrated pictures and statues. The workmanship of Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima than the finest piece of sculpture could have given...
Página 255 - I prepared myself for an entertainment which was never before given to any Christian. I thought I should very little satisfy her curiosity (which I did not doubt was a considerable motive to the invitation) by going in a dress she was used to see; and therefore dressed myself in the court habit of Vienna, which is much more magnificent than ours. However...
Página 229 - To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr Jervas could have been there invisible. I fancy it would have very much improved his art to see so many fine women naked in different postures...
Página 251 - ... you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell ; and in this manner opens four or five veins.
Página 248 - I might spare myself the trouble of assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into a language so very different) there is a good deal of beauty in them. The epithet of stag-ey'd (though the sound is not very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes.
Página 322 - ... man who wanted nothing to be in the right but to have kept you company ; you have no way of making me amends, but by continuing an Asiatic when you return to me, whatever English airs you may put on to other people. I prodigiously long for your sonnets, your remarks, your oriental learning; but I long for nothing so much as your oriental self. You must of necessity be advanced so far back into true nature and simplicity of manners, by these three years...
Página 229 - Guido or Titian, — and most of their skins shiningly white, only adorned by their beautiful hair divided into many tresses, hanging on their shoulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon, perfectly representing the figures of the Graces.