White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… she was therefore always circumspect: When a ‘booby’ wondered whether Mrs Montagu had written that famous essay called ‘ Shakespeare Moralised ,’ Burney ‘grined [sic] a little, I believe, but turned to Miss Gregory to make the answer.’ Miss … her from the difficulty of either showing herself a dunce who did not know that Mrs Montagu wrote on the Genius of Shakespeare, or a female pedant who dare d to correct the men ( EJL IV, 370). In her collection of anecdotes and personal …
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