 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1796 - 468 pages
...down-right affront, and publickly resented, if you invited a woman of (fuality to dinner, witbout , at the same time, inviting her two attendants of lover...between whom she sits in state with great gravity. The sub marriages generally last twenty years together, and the lady often commands the poor lover's... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 320 pages
...another place themselves. In one word, it is the established custom for every lady to have a cicisbeo. AH the engagements are so well known, that it would be...begun by any real passion, as other matches ; for a man makes but an ill figure, who is not in some commerce of this nature, and a woman looks out for... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...it would be a dowuright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without, at the same time, inviting her two attendants of lover and husband, between whom shi. sits in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages 12 generally last "twenty years together,... | |
 | Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1816 - 374 pages
...it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without at the same time inviting her two attendants of lover and husband, between whom she sils in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages generally last twenty years together, and the lady... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...it would be a dowuright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without, at the same time, inviting her two attendants...between whom she sits in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages generally last twenty years together, and the lady often commands the poor lover's... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1825 - 352 pages
...it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without, at the same time, inviting her two attendants...between whom she sits in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages generally last twenty years together, aijd the lady often commands the poor lover's... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 512 pages
...it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without, at the same time, inviting her two attendants...between whom she sits in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages generally last twenty years together, and the lady often commands the poor lover's... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 484 pages
...together, and the lady often commands the poor lover's estate, even to the utter ruin of his family. These connections, indeed, are as seldom begun by any real passion as other matches; for a man makes but an ill figure that is not in some commerce of this nature; and a woman looks out for... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 pages
...it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner without at the same time inviting her two attendants...between whom she sits in state with great gravity. The sub-marriages generally last twenty years together, and the lady often commands the poor lover's... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1887 - 574 pages
...it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without at the same time inviting her two attendants of lover and husband, between whom she always sits in state with great gravity. These sub-marriages generally last twenty years together,... | |
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... tis the established custom for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. And these engagements are so well known, that it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman... 
