 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...ihe Thames is between me and the Duchess of Oueensbury. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all all around, and Pope's ghost is just now .skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. The Chevenixes had tricked the cottage up for themselves. Up two pair of stair* i* what they call Mr.... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1816 - 946 pages
...the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensbury. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. The Chevenixes had tricked the cottage up for themselves. Up two pair of stairs-is •what they call... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...and the Duchess ot Queeusberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope'sghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical...enough to keep such a farm as Noah's, when he set up in * Concluded from page 128. t He took the idea of the picture walking out of its frame in the "Castlcof... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 610 pages
...Ham walks bound my prospect; but, thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around,...enough to keep such a farm as Noah's, when he set up in * Concluded from page 128. the ark with a pair of each kind, but my cottage is rather cleaner than... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...\VuIkn bound my prospect; but. thank (iotl ! tho Thames is between me and the Dnchess of (¿iteensberry. ed sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys were seen Peepi uow skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. The literary performances with which Walpole... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1832 - 498 pages
...walks, bound my prospects; but, thank God, the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...skimming under my window, by a most poetical moonlight." 4. QUINQUAGESIMA, OR SHROVE SUNDAY. This invariably falls on the Sunday preceding Shrove Tuesday, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1833 - 436 pages
...Kitty, Love his car Would for a day engage ; But Prior's Kitty, ever fair, Retains it for an age." Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight."* He commenced almost immediately adding to the house, and Gothicizing it, assisted by the taste and... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...Walks bound my prospects ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.* Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight."f He commenced almost immediately adding to the house, and Gothicizing it, assisted by the... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 pages
...Walks bound my prospects ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.* Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." t He commenced almost immediately adding to the house, * Catherine Hyde, the eccentric friend of Pope... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...Walks bound my prospects; but, thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.* Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." t He commenced almost immediately adding to the house, * Catherine Hyde, the eccentric friend of Pope... | |
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Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around ; and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. 
