 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...inhabitant, since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress. If one could honour her more than one did before,...windows clipped in them. Nobody was there but Mr. Beauclerc 3 and lady Catherine, 4 and two parsons : the two first suffered us to ransack and do as... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...of Montagu, very much after the model of the palaces of Versailles. [Ed.] its divine old mistress. 5 If one could honour her more than one did before,...her less than other people do. The garden is just us sir John Germain brought it from Holland; pyramidal yews, treillages, and square cradle walks with... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...divine old" Lady Betty Germaine, of whom he writes, on his visit to her in Northamptonshire (17G3), " If one could honour her more than one did before,...imagine do not love her less than other people do."|| Then, again, there is his old Lady Suffolk — about whom, and the Lady Betty aforesaid, Gilly Williams... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...inhabitant, since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress.1 If one could honour her more than one did before,...windows clipped in them. Nobody was there but Mr. Beauclerc- and Lady Catherine,3 and two parsons : the two first suffered us to ransack and do as we... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...inhabitant, since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress.1 If one could honour her more than one did before,...windows clipped in them. Nobody was there but Mr. Beauclerc2 and Lady Catherine,3 and two parsons : the two first suffered us to ransack and do as we... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...inhabitant, since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress." If one could honour her more than one did before,...windows clipped in them. Nobody was there but Mr. Beauclerc b and Lady Catharine, 0 and two parsons: the two first suffered us to ransack and do as we... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...inhabitant since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress. If one could honour her more than one did before, it would be to see with what religion she kee up the old dwelling and customs, as well as o servants, who you may imagine do not love her less... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 612 pages
...inhabitant since the days of Walter de Draytoij, except when it has received its divine old mistress. If one could honour her more than one did before,...from Holland ; pyramidal yews, treillages, and square cradle-walks, •with windows clipped in them.'— H. Walpole to G. Montague, July 23, 1763.— The... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...inhabitant, since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress. 1 If one could honour her more than one did before,...and customs, as well as old servants, who you may imagme do not love her less than other people do. The garden is just as Sir John Germain * brought... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...Walter de Drayton, except when it has received its divine old mistress. If one could honour fcerraore than one did before, it would be to see with what religion she keeps up lie old dwelling and customs, as well as old servants, who yon may imagine do t love her lees than... | |
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If one could honour her more than one did before, it would be to see with what religion she keeps up the old dwelling and customs, as well as old servants, who you may imagine do not love her less than other people do. The garden is just as sir John Germain... 
