 Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise—a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon St. Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill.  The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Page 2by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1852 - 198 pages
...latter place, tearing down the Park slopes after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling...and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a washhand-basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time ? I am for having her rise up off... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1852 - 698 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes after her staghounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 352 pages
...Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches ftruggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wifer than you and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a wafhhand-bafin. Why mall Hiftory go on kneeling to the end of time ? I am for having her rife up off... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 504 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1858 - 492 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...after the staghounds over the slopes at Windsor was not a bit like the effigy " which turns its stony back upon St. Paul's and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill." As I looked at Queen Anne over the apron of my hansom — she struck me as very small and black, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes after her staghounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling...and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a washhand-basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time ? I am for having her rise up off... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...a man for Madame Maintenon, or the barber who shaved him, or Monsieur Fagon, his surgeon ? CHAITER I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig —....that statue of her which turns its stone back upon Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes after her staghounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon Saint Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1879 - 482 pages
...latter place tearing down the Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling...and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a washhand-basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time ? I am for having her rise up off... | |
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