 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 σελίδες
...Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure...finest piece of sculpture could have given me. She told rne the two girls at her feet were her daughters, though she appeared too young to be their mother.... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 644 σελίδες
...Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure...sculpture could have given me. She told me the two girls »t her feet were her daughters, though she appeared too young to r»' their mother. Her fair maids... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 534 σελίδες
...Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and I think has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. TO THE ABB£ X CONSTANTINOPLE, May igth, OS, 1718. • ..•••-.. YoU see, sir, these people are... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 702 σελίδες
...Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and I think has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. TO THE ABBE X CONSTANTINOPLE, May ipth, OS. 1718. You see, sir, these people are not so unpolished... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 σελίδες
...certainly excels all our weak imitations, and I think has a much better claim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me." Lord Byron had evidently this last passage in his mmd when he wrote — "I've seen much finer women,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 396 σελίδες
...Heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and, I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure...the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. To THE ABB£ X . CONSTANTINOPLE, May 19th, OS, 1718. • ••••••• You see, sir, these... | |
 | Ada M. Ingpen - 1912 - 486 σελίδες
...imitations, and, I think, has a much better < laim to our praise. For me, I am not ashamed to own 1 took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima...me. She told me the two girls at her feet were her da lighters, though she appeared too young to be their mother. 1 1cr fair maids were ranged below the... | |
 | Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - 2003 - 364 σελίδες
...it Virtue to be able to admire without any Mixture of desire or Envy. . . . For me, I am not asham'd to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous...the finest piece of Sculpture could have given me" (350-51). If Lady Mary attempts to deny that she experiences desire upon gazing at Fatima, her excessive... | |
 | 1825 - 344 σελίδες
...heaven certainly excels all our weak imitations, and I think, has a much better claim to our praise. For my part, I am not ashamed to own, I took more...beauteous Fatima, than the finest piece of sculpture could liave given me. She told me the two girls at her feet were her daughters, though she appeared too young... | |
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For my part, I am not ashamed to own I took more pleasure in looking on the beauteous Fatima, than the finest piece of sculpture could have given me. 
