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. 1714 edition. Excerpt: ...Lady Colonnai Conversation: But, if I am not mistaken, that Comfort will not last long. Aster you have talk'd three or four Days of Franet and liafy, of the King's Passion. and the Timorousnefs of the Cardinal your Uncle j of what you were like to be, and what you are at present j After having ...
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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. 1714 edition. Excerpt: ...Lady Colonnai Conversation: But, if I am not mistaken, that Comfort will not last long. Aster you have talk'd three or four Days of Franet and liafy, of the King's Passion. and the Timorousnefs of the Cardinal your Uncle j of what you were like to be, and what you are at present j After having exhausted your Memory of what pass'd at the Constable's House j of your going out of Rome, and of your unfortunate Voyages and Travels, you will find your self coop'd up in a Convent j and your Captivity, the Hardship of which you will by that time be?in to feel, will make you reflect on the sweet.iberty you enjoy'd in England. Those very things that now seem tiresome to you, will appear charming to your Imagination j and what you have quitted through Disgust, will revive, and tantalize your Appetite. Then, Madam, then, what Force of Mind must you be Mistress of, to comfort your self under the Sense of present Ills, and lost Pleasures? 1 grant, my Guesses may prove false, and my Conjectures illgrounded. 1 grant, my Lady Colonna's Conversation may ever be agreeable to you: But who will warrant that it will be in your Power freely to enjoy it i 'Tis one of the Rules observ'd in in Religious Houses, not to permit any close Correspondence between Persons that take Delight in each other's Company; because the Union of private Persons is a kind of Breach of the Obligations one has contracted with the whole Society. Besides, the Constable's Care and Vigilance may extend so far, as to prevent a Communication, that will raise a thousand chimerical Fears in the Head of a suspicious Man, who too much offended to be forgiven. I do not mention the Caprice and Freaks of an Abbess, nor the secret Jealousies of Nuns, who will do all the Spite they can, to a Person...
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