 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 388 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | Emily Morse] [Symonds - 1907 - 630 pages
...this once popular story, which professes to recount the adventures of a Lap-dog, Lady Mary found " 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[ownshend] and Lady O[rford] are so well painted... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 640 pages
...this once popular story, which professes to recount the adventures of a Lap-dog, Lady Mary found " 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[ownshend] and Lady O[rford] are so well painted... | |
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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. 
