Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788Grant Richards, 1900 - 309 עמודים |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 287 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this House, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of Majesty. " That God and nature put into our hands...
עמוד 287 - I am astonished [exclaimed Lord Chatham as he rose], shocked to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country...
עמוד 287 - I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the...
עמוד 114 - I have a good clear income for my life ; a trifle to settle, which I am only ashamed to offer ; a good house (as houses go in our part of the world), moderately furnished, a good many books, a pleasant garden (better I believe than when you saw it), etc. Would to God I might have leave to lay them all at your feet.
עמוד 187 - Till that time arrives we must console ourselves in thinking of each other's sincerity, and that every thing will turn out as we wish it, if it is for the best it should. " Let no fond love for earth exact a sigh, No doubts divert our steady steps aside ; Nor let us long to live, nor dread to die, Heaven is our hope, and Providence our guide.
עמוד 138 - They curl and wear a great many tawdry things, but there is such a variety in the manner of dress, that I don't ' know what to tell you is the fashion ; the only thing that seems general are hoops of an enormous size, and most people wear vast winkers to their heads.
עמוד 42 - That the Duchess of Queensberry is surprised and well pleased that the King hath given her so agreeable a command as to stay from Court, where she never came for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the King and Queen...
עמוד 108 - ... twining flowers which spread and covered the petticoat, vines with the leaves variegated as you have seen them by the sun, all rather smaller than nature, which made them look very light : the robings and facings were little green banks with all sorts of weeds, and the sleeves and the rest of the gown loose twining branches of the same sort as those on the petticoat : many of the leaves were finished with gold, and part of the stumps of the trees looked like the gilding of the sun.
עמוד viii - That which would have clouded any victory, and made the loss of others less spoken of, was the death of sir Bevil...
עמוד 287 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...