Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, Etc. in Different Parts of Europe. Which Contain Among Other Curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; Drawn from Sources that Have Been Inaccessible to Other Travellers, Volúmenes1-2A. Henricy, 1796 |
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... figure of a clean Dutch citizen's wife , and the other like a poor town lady of pleasure , painted , and ribboned out in her head - dress , with tarnished silver - laced shoes , a ragged under - petticoat , a miserable mixture of vice ...
... figure of a clean Dutch citizen's wife , and the other like a poor town lady of pleasure , painted , and ribboned out in her head - dress , with tarnished silver - laced shoes , a ragged under - petticoat , a miserable mixture of vice ...
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... so entertaining an amusement . I know that my peaceable disposition already gives me a very ill figure , EERS 1 you Coas sel deen the Princes , 1 are at fir Shar to othe satis my and that ' tis publickly whispered as a piece ( 18 )
... so entertaining an amusement . I know that my peaceable disposition already gives me a very ill figure , EERS 1 you Coas sel deen the Princes , 1 are at fir Shar to othe satis my and that ' tis publickly whispered as a piece ( 18 )
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... figure of a decrepit old man , with a beard down to his knees , and triple crown upon his head , holding in his arms the Son , fixed on the Cross , and the Holy Ghost , in the shape of a dove , hovering over him . Madam— is come this ...
... figure of a decrepit old man , with a beard down to his knees , and triple crown upon his head , holding in his arms the Son , fixed on the Cross , and the Holy Ghost , in the shape of a dove , hovering over him . Madam— is come this ...
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... figure they pretend to in England , being looked upon no otherwise than as downright chamber - maids . I had an audience next day of the Empress mother , a princess of great virtue and goodness , but who piques herself too much on a ...
... figure they pretend to in England , being looked upon no otherwise than as downright chamber - maids . I had an audience next day of the Empress mother , a princess of great virtue and goodness , but who piques herself too much on a ...
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... figure as the prize shooting in the Eneid , if I could write as well as Virgil . This is the favourite pleasure of the Emperor , and there is rarely a week without some feast of this kind , which makes the young ladies skilful enough to ...
... figure as the prize shooting in the Eneid , if I could write as well as Virgil . This is the favourite pleasure of the Emperor , and there is rarely a week without some feast of this kind , which makes the young ladies skilful enough to ...
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Página 157 - 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.
Página 115 - I know that post was almost offered to him before. At that time he declined it, and I really believe that he would have done well to have declined it now. Such a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
Página 24 - ... in the same manner. But I could not easily pardon the liberty the poet has taken of larding his play with, not only indecent expressions, but such gross words, as I don't think our mob would suffer from a mountebank. Besides, the two Sosias very fairly let down their breeches in the direct view of the boxes, which were full of people of the first rank, that seemed very well pleased with their entertainment, and assured me this was a celebrated piece.
Página 140 - My garden is full of tall cypress trees, upon the branches of which several couple of true turtles are saying soft things to one another from morning till night. How naturally do boughs and vows come into my mind at this minute ! And...
Página 157 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
Página 25 - ... out two or three inches from their hair), made of diamonds, pearls, red, green, and yellow stones, that it certainly requires as much art and experience to carry the load upright, as to dance upon May-day with the garland. Their whale-bone petticoats outdo ours by several yards' circumference, and cover some acres of ground.
Página 176 - ... finely embroidered : her lovely arms adorned with bracelets of diamonds, and her broad girdle set round with diamonds; upon her head a rich Turkish handkerchief of pink and silver, her own fine black hair hanging a great length in various tresses, and on one side of her head some bodkins of jewels.
Página 144 - The description of the belt of Menelaus exactly resembles those that are now worn by the great men, fastened before with broad golden clasps, and embroidered round with rich work. The snowy veil that Helen throws over her face is still fashionable ; and I never see...
Página 155 - ... 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...
Página 103 - I HAVE now, madam, finished a journey that has not been undertaken by any Christian since the time of the Greek emperors : and I shall not regret all the fatigues I have suffered in it, if it gives me an opportunity of amusing your royal highness by an account of places utterly unknown amongst us; the Emperor's ambassadors, and those few English that have come hither, always going on the Danube to Nicopolis.