| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 574 страници
...rookery, is more contemplative than this court, and as a proof of it I need only tell you Mrs. L. [Lepell] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." — T. can think : though one naturally emulates the first sort, it is hurt by the second,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 страници
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our ancestors, than the island which we inhabit.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 страници
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our ancestors, than the island which we inhabit.... | |
| Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1891 - 650 страници
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you Miss L[epell] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the ViceChamberlain, all alone, under the garden walk. In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset table, or any 1 Elwin and Courthope's Pope,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 400 страници
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our ancestors, than the island which we inhabit.... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 548 страници
...lives was unendurable. " And as a proof of it," adds the writer, "I need only tell you that Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden-wall." In 1718 the jealous monarch had driven away his son and cette diablesse Madame la Princesse, who held... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 420 страници
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court* Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our ancestors, than the island which we inhabit.... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1896 - 398 страници
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you Mrs. L[epel] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King [George I.], who gave audience to the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.' ' The bard... | |
| 1896 - 684 страници
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it I need only tell you Mrs. Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King [George I.], who gave audience to the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.' ' The bard... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 страници
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you Mrs. L[epel] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King [George I.], who gave audience to the ViceChamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.' 1 The bard... | |
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