 ... 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Стр. 5041804Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Cann Bailey - 1899 - Страниц: 328
...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." The letters to Lady Bute are her best, and that for... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - Страниц: 316
...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...break through her laws by affecting a perpetuity of youth.1 I believe, like all^ others of your age, you have long been convinced there is no real happiness... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - Страниц: 580
...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. To MR. WORTLEY MONTAGU. May2 4 ,NS [1751]. I CAN no... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1893 - Страниц: 636
...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... | |
 | Joseph Rodgers - 1908 - Страниц: 488
...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." Her long life was now drawing near its close. In 1761 she heard of the death of her husband at the... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 1236
...Those only are unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives, bnt strive to break her laws l>v affecting a perpetuity of youth, which appears to...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... | |
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