hael's
cartoons--envious behaviour of modern painters, in
defacing the productions of the ancients--digressions
to some reports raised by Mr P. concerning the writer.
LET. LVII. --Remarks on Paris--reflections on staring and
grinning--character of the French people--criticism on
statues in the gardens of Versailles--the gardens
compared with the royal gardens of England.
LET. LVIII. --Observations on the koran, and the conduct of the
Greek priests with regard to it--women not excluded
from Mahomet's paradise--who among the women excluded--
the exhortations of Mahomet to the women, compared with
the monastic institution of popery--the sciences
cultivated among the Turks by the effendis--sentiments
of an intelligent one respecting abstinence from wine--
strange mixture of different countries in the suburbs
of Constantinople--different species of men asserted--
mongrels in the human species--why the English women so
fond of hoop-petticoats.
Inquiry into the truth of Monsieur Rochefoucault's maxim, "That
marriage is sometimes convenient, but never delightful."
Verses written in the Chiask at Pera, overlooking Constantinople,
December 26th, 1718. By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
Verses to Lady Mary Wortley Montague. By Mr Pope.
F I N I S.
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