 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 366 pages
...somebpdy else the next: neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend, but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy,...body. Was I the most indigent creature in the world, I should answer you as I do now, without adding or diminishing. I am incapable of art, and 'tis because... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...somebody else the next: neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend, but I do not know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me. You jndge very wrong of my heart, when you suppose me capable of views of VOL. II. • • G interest,... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1825 - 352 pages
...else the next : neither would happen. I can esteem, I cau be a friend, but I do not know whether I can . love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy,...of my heart, when you suppose me capable of views o of interest, and that any thing could oblige me to flatter any body. Was I the most indigent creature... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 512 pages
...somebody else the next : neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend, but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy,...body. Was I the most indigent creature in the world, I should answer you as I do now, without adding or diminishing. I am incapable of art, and 'tis because... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...somebody else the next: neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend, but I don't know whether l can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy,...suppose me capable of views of interest, and that any tiling could oblige me to flatter any body. Was I the most indigent creature in the world, I should... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...somebody else the next. Neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend ; but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me. " If you can resolve to live with a companion that will have all the deference due to your superiority... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English literature - 1846 - 756 pages
...next. Neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend ; but I don't know whether I can lore. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me. " If you can resolve to live with a companion that will have all the deference due to your superiority... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...else the next. Neither would happen : I can esteem, I can be a friend ; but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me. ' If you can resolve to live with a companion that will have all the deference due to your superiority... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...somebody else the next. Neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend ; but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy,...suppose me capable of views of interest, and that anything could oblige me to flatter anybody. Was I the most indigent creature in the world, I should... | |
 | William Russell - Blind tooled bindings (Binding) - 1857 - 328 pages
...else the next. Neither would happen : 1 can esteem, I can be a friend ; but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me." Like all lovers, Mr. Wortley Montague imagined that true felicity could only be secured by seclusion... | |
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... ways ; you would find an easy equality of temper you do not expect, and a thousand faults you do not imagine. You think if you married me, I should be passionately fond of you one month, and of somebody else the next : neither would happen. 
