 It is a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted in London, as it was in my time, and as it will be (I do not doubt) a hundred years hence, with some little variation of dress, and perhaps of government.  The Literary journal - Pàgina 831803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 622 pàgines
...diverted me more than any of the others, and it was impossible to go to bed till it was finished. It was a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted in London, as it was in my time, 1 See note, post, f. 250.— T. a " The History of Charlotte Summers, the Fortunate Parish Girl," published... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pàgines
...diverted me more than any of the others, and it was impossible to go to bed till it was finished. It was a real and exact representation of life, as it is...hence, with some little variation of dress, and perhaps government. I found there many of my acquaintance. Lady T. and Lady O. are so well painted, I fancied... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 388 pàgines
...charmed, and she tells Lady Bute, what the curious may now read with great satisfaction, that it was " a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted in London." What is odd is that Lady Mary identified, with absolute complacency, the portrait of herself, as Mrs.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 pàgines
...charmed, and she tells Lady Bute, what the curious may now read with great satisfaction, that it was " a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted in London." What is odd is that Lady Mary identified, with absolute complacency, the portrait of herself, as Mrs.... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 pàgines
...diverted me more than any of the others, and it was impossible to go to bed till it was finished. It was a real and exact representation of life, as it is...hence, with some little variation of dress, and perhaps government. I found there many of my acquaintance. Lady T. and Lady O. are so well painted,* I fancied... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 pàgines
...Garden,' and the 1 Another roman d. clef, in which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, no mean judge, found ' a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted [1751] in London ' — a statement to which the candid critic can only reply — ' So much the worse... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 390 pàgines
...Garden,' and the 1 Another roman CL clef, in which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, no mean judge, found ' a real and exact representation of life, as it is now acted [1751] in London ' — a statement to which the candid critic can only reply — ' So much the worse... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 336 pàgines
...and survived long enough to find a place in Mrs. Barbauld's " British Novelists." Lady Mary calls it a real and exact representation of life, as it is...variation of dress and perhaps of government. I found in it many of my acquaintances. Lady T. and Lady O. are so well painted, I fancied I heard them talk,... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 334 pàgines
...a place in Mrs. Barbauld's " British Novelists." Lady Mary calls it a real and exact representatior of life, as it is now acted in London, as it was in...variation of dress and perhaps of government. I found in it many of my acquaintances. Lady T. and Lady O. are so well painted, I fancied I heard them talk,... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 360 pàgines
...Mrs. Barbauld's " British Novelists." Lady Mary calls it a real and exac^representation of life, sis it is now acted in London, as it was in my time, and...variation of dress and perhaps of government. I found in it many of my acquaintances. Lady T. and Lady O. are so well painted, I fancied I heard them talk,... | |
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