Letters ... descriptive of ... travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with biogr. sketch |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Letters ... Descriptive of ... Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with ... Mary Wortley Montagu (Lady ) Podgląd niedostępny - 2015 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
acquaintance admiration Adrianople agreeable amongst ancient answer appears assured bagnio beauty Belgrade believe built called charmed Christian church cloth Constantinople Countess of Bristol Countess of Mar court curiosity Danube daughter dear sister diamonds diversion dressed embroidered emperor empress England English entertained extremely eyes fancy forbear gardens gilt give gold grand signior Greek hair hands handsome happiness head honour Hungary husband imagine janisaries jewels journey Lady Mary Lady Mary's Lady Rich LETTER liberty live lively colours London look madam magnificence manner marble married MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU mosques natural never night Nimeguen obliged occasion palace pasha passed passion Paul Rycaut perhaps piece pillars pleased pleasure pounds sterling present received round seen seraglio shew slaves sort speak suffered sultan surprised tell things Tis true town travellers truth Turkish Turkish language Turks Vienna woman women write young
Popularne fragmenty
Strona xxvi - And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequered shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in to the passing winds ? So the struck deer in some sequestered part Lies down to die, the arrow at his heart ; There stretched unseen in coverts hid from day, Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away.
Strona xxxiv - I called a white staff a stick of wood, a gold key gilded brass, and the ensigns of illustrious orders coloured strings, this may be philosophically true^ but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain : those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences. I think my time better employed in. reading...
Strona xxvi - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Strona xxix - Walpole's, then prime minister), to have not taken out of the commandments, and clapped into the creed, the ensuing session of parliament. This bold attempt for the liberty of the subject is wholly projected by Mr Walpole, who proposed it to the Secret Committee in his parlour. William...
Strona xxxvii - ... of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he gives it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times without the expense of an act of parliament.
Strona xix - I hope there will never be occasion for this precaution ; but, however, 'tis necessary to make it.
Strona 96 - I was at last forced to open my shirt, and shew them my stays; which satisfied them very well ; for, I saw, they believed I was locked up in that machine, and that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my husband.
Strona 236 - Perhaps you 11 say, what's that to you ? Believe me, friend, much may be said On this poor couple that are dead. On Sunday next they should have married ; But see how oddly things are carried ! On Thursday last it rain'd and lighten'd; These tender lovers, sadly frighten'd, Shelter'd beneath the cocking hay, In hopes to pass the time away ; But the bold thunder found them out (Commission'd for that end, no doubt), And, seizing on their trembling breath, Consign'd them to the shades of death. Who...
Strona xv - ... twenty thousand, the first would be my choice. There is something of an unavoidable embarras in making what is called a great figure in the world; [it] takes off from the happiness of life...
Strona 94 - The first sofas were covered with cushions and rich carpets, on which sat the ladies; and on the second, their slaves behind them, but without any distinction of rank by their dress, all being in the state of nature, that is, in plain English, stark naked, without any beauty or defect concealed.