 | 1798 - 614 pages
...little play-thing-house that I got out of Mrs. Chenevix's * shop, and is the prettiest bawble you «ver saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with philigree...roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold. Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises : barges... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1833 - 436 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : — "A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold." Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : — * Letter to Sir Horace Mann. " A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold." Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : — ' A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold.' Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges: — ' A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd. And little finches wave their wings of gold.' Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...once more to tell Lord Bury'+ that he has quite dropped me: if I thought he would take me up again, 1 would write to him ; a message would encourage me....Marchmont. [Or.] 11 James Oswald, afterwards a lord oftrade,and vice-treasurer of Ireland. [Or.] u William Pitt, afterwards earl of Chatham. [Or.] 13 Catherine,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold. Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises: barges... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings in gold. Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises : barges... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 594 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : — " ' A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold.' Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises;... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges : — " ' A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold.' Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continual! v with coaches and... | |
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Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises: barges as solemn as barons of the exchequer move under my window ; Richmond Hill and Ham Walks bound my prospect; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me... 
