 | Edmund Burke - History - 1759 - 516 pages
...lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, fo that fifli may be kept in them, and, in fummer time, they are very convenient for bathing : in another...near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, was a noble table of red marble. We were not admitted to fee the apartments of this palace, jhere being... | |
 | History - 1764 - 524 pages
...lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipe*, fo that fi(h may be kept in them, and, in fummer time, they are very convenient for bathing : in another...near this and joined to it by a little bridge, was a nobl« table of red marble. We were not admitted to fee the apartments of this palace, there being... | |
 | History - 1795 - 532 pages
...into which the water is conveyed through pipes, so that £sh may be kept in them, and, in мшшкт time, they are very convenient for bathing : in another...near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, was a noble table of red marble. We were not admitted to see the apartments of this palace, there being... | |
 | Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...they are very convenient tor bathing; in am thcr rot m for entertainment very near this, and ji ined to it by a little bridge, was an oval table of red marble. NVcwere not admitted to see the- apartments of this palace, there being nobody to shew it as the family... | |
 | Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be kept in them, and in summer time they are very...very near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, is an oval table of red marble." Concernmg the pleasure-grounds at Shirburne, in Peck's work before... | |
 | John Nichols - England - 1823 - 710 pages
...of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be kept in them, and in Summer time they are very...very near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, is an oval table of red marble." Concerning the pleasuregrounds at Shirburne, in Peck's work, before... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be kept in them ; and, in summer time, they are...near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, was a noble table of red marble. We were not admitted to see the apartments of this palace, there being... | |
 | 1836 - 456 pages
...it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be kept in them ; and, in summer time, they are...near this, and joined to it by a little bridge, was a noble table of red marble. We were not admitted to see the apartments of this palace, there being... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 574 pages
...it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, sо that fish may be kept in them, and in summer time they are very...a little bridge, was an oval table of red marble." From the gardens and terraces of these great houses the hall was entered ; but now, when the grandest... | |
 | 1862 - 452 pages
...of it set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be kept in them ; and in summer time they are very convenient for bathing." To be continued. LITEEAET SUEVET. THEEE ia mnch that is noteworthy in the present issues of the great... | |
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... led by the gardener into the summer-house ; in the lower part of which, built semicircularly, are the twelve Roman Emperors in white marble, and a table of touchstone ; the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water... 
