The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Volume 1G. Bell, 1887 - 953 pages |
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... supposed to be paying his addresses . Lady Mary records with triumph the attraction which he found in her conversation , though then a girl of " only fourteen . " Mr. Wortley was considerably older ; but the interest which he took in ...
... supposed to be paying his addresses . Lady Mary records with triumph the attraction which he found in her conversation , though then a girl of " only fourteen . " Mr. Wortley was considerably older ; but the interest which he took in ...
Page xlvi
... supposed to have been so betwitched as to fall in love with him at first sight . To believe in any mutual and acknowledged attachment during their infrequent meetings before she left England , would be to assume , without evidence , a ...
... supposed to have been so betwitched as to fall in love with him at first sight . To believe in any mutual and acknowledged attachment during their infrequent meetings before she left England , would be to assume , without evidence , a ...
Page xlvii
... supposed to be in love with Martha Blount , and he sends copies of his verses addressed to both of those ladies . But , notwithstanding this , and the fact that Miss Judith Cowper was about to be married to a respectable gentleman ...
... supposed to be in love with Martha Blount , and he sends copies of his verses addressed to both of those ladies . But , notwithstanding this , and the fact that Miss Judith Cowper was about to be married to a respectable gentleman ...
Page xlix
... supposed to " help " him to anything but the liberty to see the picture while it remained upon the painter's easel . Mr. Wortley's complaisance had , we must assume , some limit ; and from subsequent events , developed in the ...
... supposed to " help " him to anything but the liberty to see the picture while it remained upon the painter's easel . Mr. Wortley's complaisance had , we must assume , some limit ; and from subsequent events , developed in the ...
Page liii
... friends of Lady Mary derived from the spectacle of his supposed humiliation . l'ope revelled in the vulgar attacks made 1 [ See p . 278 , post . ] upon him by small critics and poor poets , and MEMOIR OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU . liii.
... friends of Lady Mary derived from the spectacle of his supposed humiliation . l'ope revelled in the vulgar attacks made 1 [ See p . 278 , post . ] upon him by small critics and poor poets , and MEMOIR OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU . liii.
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