 | 1893 - Liczba stron: 846
...day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives, but strive to break her laws by affecting a perpetuity of youth, which appears to me as little desirable at present as... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - Liczba stron: 756
...day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives,...break through her laws, by affecting a perpetuity of youth,—which appears to me as little desirable at present as the babies do to you, that were the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - Liczba stron: 754
...day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives,...break through her laws, by affecting a perpetuity of youth,—which appears to me as h'ttle desirable at present as the babies do to you, that were the... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1876 - Liczba stron: 416
...formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon. LETTER XXXI. VENICE, March 22, 1756. I have received, but this morning, the first box of china Lord... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - Liczba stron: 622
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...as little desirable at present as the babies do to yon, that were the delight of your infancy. I am at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - Liczba stron: 310
...formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...at the end of my paper, which shortens the sermon of, dear child, your most affectionate mother. XC. TO MR. WORTLEY MONTAGU. May 24, N. s. [1751]. I... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - Liczba stron: 342
...formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only...do to you, that were the delight of your infancy." But this somewhat stoical mood of tranquillity was broken up when Lady Mary moved from the country... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - Liczba stron: 400
...every state. Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives, but strive to break her laws by affecting a perpetuity of youth, which...do to you that were the delight of your infancy." This was not the serenity of indifference, for she says in another letter that Lady Bute's description... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - Liczba stron: 374
...day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives, but strive to break her laws by affecting a perpetuity of youth, which appears to me as little desirable at present as... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - Liczba stron: 600
...formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day he an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only unhappy who will not he contented with what she gives, but strive to break through her laws, by affecting a perpetuity of... | |
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... so. There is a quiet after the abandoning of pursuits, something like the rest that follows a laborious day. I tell you this for your comfort. It was formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has... 
