Preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters (1724) [ People / Practices ]
… of fresh and elegant entertainment. For, besides the vivacity and spirit which enliven every part, and that inimitable beauty which spreads through the whole; besides the purity of the style, for which it may justly, be accounted the … back-biting, spiteful detraction, and the rest of that hideous crew, which, I hope, are very falsely said to attend the Tea-table , being more apt to think, they frequent those public places, where virtuous women never come. Let the men malign …
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