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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... genius capable of making the best improvement of every opportunity . But if the reader , after perusing one letter only , has not discern- ment to distinguish that natural elegance , that delicacy of senti- ment and observation , PREFACE ,
... genius capable of making the best improvement of every opportunity . But if the reader , after perusing one letter only , has not discern- ment to distinguish that natural elegance , that delicacy of senti- ment and observation , PREFACE ,
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... nature , I could not enough admire the magnificence of the altars , the rich images of the saints ( all massy silver ) and the enchasures of the relicks , tho ' I could not help murmuring in my heart , at the profusion of pearls ...
... nature , I could not enough admire the magnificence of the altars , the rich images of the saints ( all massy silver ) and the enchasures of the relicks , tho ' I could not help murmuring in my heart , at the profusion of pearls ...
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... ( which is very often the principal charm to the wearer ) one is forced to confess , that there is need of an uncommon unders- tanding , to resist the temptation of pleasing friends and mortifying rivals ; and that it is natural ( 13 )
... ( which is very often the principal charm to the wearer ) one is forced to confess , that there is need of an uncommon unders- tanding , to resist the temptation of pleasing friends and mortifying rivals ; and that it is natural ( 13 )
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... natural to young people to fall into a folly , which betrays them to that want of money , which is the source of a thousand basenesses . What numbers of men have begun the world with generous inclinations , that have afterwards been the ...
... natural to young people to fall into a folly , which betrays them to that want of money , which is the source of a thousand basenesses . What numbers of men have begun the world with generous inclinations , that have afterwards been the ...
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... natural ugliness , with which God Almighty has been pleased to endow them , generally speaking . Even the lovely Empress herself is obliged to comply , in some degree , with these absurd fashions , which they would not quit for all the ...
... natural ugliness , with which God Almighty has been pleased to endow them , generally speaking . Even the lovely Empress herself is obliged to comply , in some degree , with these absurd fashions , which they would not quit for all the ...
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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.