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The Works of the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu V3: Including Her Correspondence, Poems and Essays (1803)

The Works of the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu V3: Including Her Correspondence, Poems and Essays (1803)

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Dallaway, James

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ISBN10: 1164324314
ISBN13: 9781164324317
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 9.02 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...furious passion for Lady Walpole (aged fourteen Margaret, daughter and lieir of Samuel Rolle. csq. of Haynton, Deon, married to Robert lord Walpole, March 96, 1724. and some months). Mrs. Mt undertook to bring the business to bear, and provided the opportunity (a great ingredient you'll say); but the yuung lady proved skittish. She did not only turn this heroic flame into present ridicule, but exposed all his generous sentiments, to divert her husband and father-in-law. His lordship is gone to Scotland; and, if there was any body wicked enough to write upon it, there is a subject 'worthy the pen of the best balladmaker in Grub-street. M. W. M. To the Countess of Mat. Cavendish Square, I725. I Think this is the first time of my life that a letter of yours has lain by me two posts/ unanswered. You'll wonder to hear that short silence is occasioned by not having a moment unemployed at Twickenham; but I pass many hours on horseback, and, I'll assure you, ride stag-hunting, which I know you'll stare to hear of. I have arrived to vast courage and skill that way, and am as well pleased with it as with the acquisition of a new sense: his royal highness hunts in Richmond park, and I make one of the beau monde in his train. I desire you after this account not to name the word old woman to me any more: I appraach to fifteen nearer than I did ten years ago, and am in hopes to improve every year in health and vivacity. Lord Bolingbroke is returned to England, and is to do the honours at an assembly at Lord Berkley's the ensuing winter. But the most surprising news is Lord BMt's assiduous court, which fills the coffee-houses with profound speculations. But I, who smell a rat at a considerable distance, do believe in private that Mrs. Hd and his lordship have a friendship...

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