Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1847 - Beauty, Personal |
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... Wortley . - Pope's unfortunate passion discussed . - Lady Mary the introducer of inoculation into England . - She separates . from Mr. Wortley , and resides abroad for twenty - two years.— Reason of that sojourn . - Her addiction to ...
... Wortley . - Pope's unfortunate passion discussed . - Lady Mary the introducer of inoculation into England . - She separates . from Mr. Wortley , and resides abroad for twenty - two years.— Reason of that sojourn . - Her addiction to ...
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... Wortley Montague has revived the discussion respecting her supposed , and but too probable brusquerie towards him ( for no man deserved greater delicacy in repulse from a woman , than one so sensitive and so unhappily formed as he ) ...
... Wortley Montague has revived the discussion respecting her supposed , and but too probable brusquerie towards him ( for no man deserved greater delicacy in repulse from a woman , than one so sensitive and so unhappily formed as he ) ...
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... Wortley saw this letter ; for she was jealous of the witty and beautiful Lepell , who married a flame of hers , Lord Hervey ; and though she is understood to have scorned the pretensions of Pope herself , it is in the nature of ...
... Wortley saw this letter ; for she was jealous of the witty and beautiful Lepell , who married a flame of hers , Lord Hervey ; and though she is understood to have scorned the pretensions of Pope herself , it is in the nature of ...
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... WORTLEY MONTAgu , who was at once so clever , so bold , so well off , and so full of sense of every sort but the sense of delicacy , that she provokes us to speak as plainly as herself . But we have said enough of her ladyship in ...
... WORTLEY MONTAgu , who was at once so clever , so bold , so well off , and so full of sense of every sort but the sense of delicacy , that she provokes us to speak as plainly as herself . But we have said enough of her ladyship in ...
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... Wortley Mon- tagu , " lately edited by her great - grandson , Lord Wharncliffe , is the following specimen of the tattle of the day from the sprightly pen of her ladyship , who for obvious reasons is too much given to scandal , and ...
... Wortley Mon- tagu , " lately edited by her great - grandson , Lord Wharncliffe , is the following specimen of the tattle of the day from the sprightly pen of her ladyship , who for obvious reasons is too much given to scandal , and ...
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