| Isobel Grundy - 1999 - Страниц: 718
...can ensure 'she does not mistake pert Folly for Wit and humour, or Rhyme for Poetry'. Then she must 'conceal whatever Learning she attains, with as much...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness'. Lady Mary probably borrowed this advice (but not her bitter comparison of learning to disability) from... | |
| 1997 - Страниц: 198
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| Diane Jacobs - 2001 - Страниц: 336
...girls who could think. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu warned her granddaughter, a gifted mathematician, to "conceal whatever learning she attains with as...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness.") 7 Ridiculous, thought Mary, who seems to have been born avid for 20 knowledge and envied her brothers,... | |
| Diane Jacobs - 2001 - Страниц: 350
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| Jane Austen - 2002 - Страниц: 284
...Mary Wortley Montague's letter to her daughter Lady Bute about the education of her granddaughter: "The second caution to be given her (and which is...solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness" (Letters January 1753, 237). The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already... | |
| Mary Robinson - 2003 - Страниц: 564
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| Robert Chambers - 2004 - Страниц: 428
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| Qian Ma - 2004 - Страниц: 244
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| Louise Barnett - 2006 - Страниц: 238
...Arbuthnot were both socially and artistically contemptible."5 Lady Mary would advise her granddaughter to "conceal whatever learning she attains, with as much solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness."6 Swift may have been no more class-conscious than anyone else in an age in which distinctions... | |
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