Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William And Mary ... 3
Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William And Mary ... 3
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874
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Still it is evident, from the literary correspondence of the period, that he was the intimate friend of Addison, and that Steele, Congreve, and Garth were among his acquaintance. Thus, a congenial taste for literature and wit existed between Lady Mary and himself. He naturally became enamoured of a woman who, to the possession of great beauty, superadded those intellectual qualities which he most valued and admired ; and Lady Mary, though she con- fessed to him her inability to return his passi...on with a warmth equal to his own, yet freely ad- mitted that she entertained a regard and partiality for him which she had never experienced toward any other suitor. On this, Montagu made his pro- posals to her father ; but, either from an inability to make a settlement, or rather, as it would ap- pear, from a prejudice against settling property on unborn children, of whose good or bad qualities he could know nothing, his offers were peremp- torily rejected by the Duke of Kingston. The lovers, indeed, still kept up a correspond- ence, but it appears by Lady Mary's letters, writ- ten at the period, that it was constantly on the point of being broken off ; not, indeed, by the vigi- lance and interference of her father, but by per- 258 THE COURT OF ENGLAND.
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