New Elegant Extracts; A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827-01-01 edition. Excerpt: ... taire is vexed that the French will see how often he has stolen from Shakspeare. I could have sent you some pretty verses that were made on your humble servant and Miss G;but I think satire is always more poignant than praise, and the verses on us were high panegyric. I am, dear madam, your most affectionate friend, and faithful humble servant, E. MONTAGU. MRS. MONTAGU TO LORD KAIMES. MV LORD, Sandleford, October 27th, 1773. With the history of man, I dare say, your lordship has written the history of woman. I beg that, in specifying their characters, you would take notice, that time and separation do not operate on the female heart as they do on that of the male. We need not go back so far as the time of Ulysses and Penelope to prove this. We may pass over the instance of his dalliance with the sole suitor that addressed him, the lovely Calypso, and the constant Penelope's continued disdain of the whole train of pertinacious wooers. The more near and recent an example is the better; so, my lord, we will take our own times. You feel, you say, when you take up your pen to write to me, the same formality as on our first acquaintance. I, on the contrary, find, that my confidence in you has had time to take root: a long winter cannot blast, dreary seasons cannot wither it. Under its shadow I am protected from Vol. v. P P any apprehensions from your genius and learning. You appear to me in no character but that of my friend, and in the sacred character of my old friend. The years of absence, the months of vacation, in our correspondence, come into the account, for I remembered you when I did not hear from you--I thought of, when I did not see you. Esteem, nursed by faithful remembrance, grew up without intermission. I am most sincerely...