| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1808 - 918 pages
...never appear; and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure to lasting. She will not want new fashions, nor regret the loss of expensive diversions, or variety... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...never appear : and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...if she can be amused with an author in her closet." I am well aware that a rigid censor may blame this view of things exhibited by Lady Mary as too limited,... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 332 pages
...never appear: and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...if she can be amused with an author in her closet." I am well aware that a rigid censor may blame this view of things exhibited by Lady Mary as too limited,... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real laste for it, will not only make her contented, but happy...or variety of company, if she can be amused with an anthor in her closet. To render this amusement complete, she should be permitted to learn the languages.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...th ; sanl^ titnj incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is deemed. Learning, if shj haa + pleasures во lasting. She- will uot waat n;w fashions, nor regret the loss of expensive diversions,... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...judgment that does not presently see to which side in this case the preference is to be given. — LOCKE. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — LADY MW MONTAGUE. WE are led to the belief of a future state, not only by the weaknesses, by the... | |
| 536 pages
...hasten there, To sound our harps by the sapphire sea Of our Father's home, in eternity! MARV ELIZABETH. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montag»The MALTA PENNY MAGAZINS is published and sent to subscribers, in Valletta, every... | |
| John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...venture on a new dividend, and think it best to sit down with their own. — Socrates. Reading. — No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montague. Prejudices and Habits. — The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are... | |
| Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...venture on anew dividend, and think it best to sit down with their own. — Socrates. Reading. — No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montague. Prejudices and Habits. — The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are... | |
| Periodicals - 1847 - 724 pages
...any door I knock, And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke." POPE'S IMITATIONS OF HORACE. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." LADY MW MONTAGUE. "Come with me to our town, where I can furnish you with more than three hundred books... | |
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