Quotes

Phoebe Wells

09/16/26

“I found it fully cultivated; but that which first surprised me was the length of the grass, which in those grounds that seem to be kept for hay, was about twenty foot high.” page 62 perspective.

“This made me reflect upon the first skins of our English ladies, who appears so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be seen, but they’re a magnifying glass, but refined by experiment, that the smoothest and why do skins look rough in course, and ill colored.” page 68 pride and perspective. Pride because talking about the pride of our appearances.

“I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excellent qualities of mind that he was master of.” Pride and perspective. I feel like pride because he is kind of judging the king, but also perspective because they have different perspectives with this conversation.

“Nothing but an extreme love of truth, could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story. It was in vain to discover my resentment, which were always turned into ridicule: and, I was forced to rest with my patience, when my Noble and Miss beloved country was so injuriously treated.”