 ... florists, who swoon at the sight of a ranunculus, and prostrate themselves before a tulip. Whereupon I related to them what had formerly happened to me in London, in that flower-garden into which we were ushered with so much formality, and where we...  Eloisa: Or a Series of Original Letters - Page 1501803Full view - About this book
 | Richard Porson, George Tierney - 1784 - 360 pages
...what happened to me formerly at London, in the flower-garden into which we were introduced with fo much ceremony, and where we faw all the treafures...appear a virtuofo in my turn, and venturing to fall in extacies at the fight of a tulip which feemed to be of a fine fhape, and of a lively colour, I was... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...ushered with so much formality, and where we saw displayed so pompously all the treasures of Holland on four beds of dung. I did not forget the ceremony of the parasol, and of the little wand, with which they honoured me, all unworthy as I was, as well as the... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 478 pages
...ushered with so much formality, and where we saw displayed so pompously all the treasures of Holland on four beds of dung. I did not forget the ceremony of the parasol, and of the little wand, with which they honoured me, all unworthy as I was, as well as the... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 474 pages
...ushered with so much formality, and where we saw displayed so pompously all the treasures of Holland on four beds of dung. I did not forget the ceremony of the parasol, and of the little wand, with which they honoured me, all unworthy as I was, as well as the... | |
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