Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e eBook

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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 284 pages of information about Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e.
              Candia—­reflections on the contrast between ancient and
              modern Greece—­Trinacria—­Malta—­arrival at Tunis—­face
              of the country—­manner of celebrating the Mahometan
              ramadan or Lent—­the natives—­ruins of the aqueduct of
              Carthage—­description and chronological anecdotes of
              the city of Tunis—­ruins of Carthage.

LET.  XLV. From Genoa.—­Description of Genoa and its inhabitants
              —­Cizisbeis, the nature of their employment, and
              occasion of their institution—­the government—­palaces
              —­paintings—­remark on their fondness for the
              representation of crucifixes—­church of St Lawrence,
              and the famous emerald plate—­their churches not to be
              compared with the Sancta Sophia at Constantinople.

LET.  XLVI. From Turin.—­Character of Turin, its palaces and
              churches—­Lady M. waits on the queen—­persons of the
              king and prince of Piedmont described.

LET.  XLVII. From Lyons.—­Journey from Turin to Lyons—­passage over
              mount Cenis—­the frontier towns between Savoy and
              France.

LET.  XLVIII. From Lyons.—­Reflections on the insipidity of female
              visits—­the inscriptions on brass tables on each side
              of the town-house at Lyons—­remains of antiquity—­
              cathedral of St John—­critique on the statue of Louis
              XIV.

LET.  XLIX. From Paris.—­Miserable condition of the French
              peasants—­palace of Fontainbleau—­fair of St
              Lawrence—­opera house—­general character of the French
              actors—­comparison between the French and English
              ladies.

LET.  L. Paris.—­General remarks on the palace of Versailles—­
              Trianon—­Marli—­St Cloud—­paintings at the house of the
              Duke d’Antin—­the Thuilleries—­the Louvre—­behaviour of
              Mr Law at Paris—­Paris compared with London.

LET.  LI. From Dover.—­Ludicrous distresses in the passage to
              Dover—­reflections on travelling—­brief comparison
              between England and the rest of the world in general.

LET.  LII. Dover.—­Reflections on the fates of John Hughes and
              Sarah Drew—­epitaph on them.

LET.  LIII. —­Character of Mrs D ——­ and humorous representation
              of her intended marriage with a greasy curate—­
              anecdotes of another couple—­remarks on the abuse of
              the word nature; applied to the case of a husband who
              insisted on his wife suckling her own child—­
              observations on the forbidding countenance of a worthy
              gentleman.

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