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" Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ... - Page 206
by New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 31

1819 - 654 pages
...— in which Sir Robert lay — write it dowu — admire a lobster or a cabbage in a market piece — dispute whether the last room was green or purple — and then hurry to the inn for fear the fir-h should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! Not a picture here but recalls a history...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

England - 1818 - 762 pages
...is called, in which Sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was. green or purple,...then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls a history ; not one, but...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 pages
...is called, in which Sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple,...then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! not a picturehere but recalls a history ; not one, but...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 88, Part 1; Volume 123

Early English newspapers - 1818 - 728 pages
...last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the Inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! Not a picture here but recalls a history ; not one but I remember in Downing-street or Chelsea, where Queens and crowds admired them, though seeing them as little as those...
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Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...is called, in which sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a market-piece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple,...then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls a history ; not one, but...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 402 pages
...Abishag to warm me now? Does great youth feel with poetic limbs, as well as see with poetic eyes ? In one respect I am very young, 1 cannot satiate myself...remember in Downing Street or Chelsea, where queens and ;rowds admire them, though seeing them as little as these travellers ! When I had drunk tea, I strolled...
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A general history of the county of Norfolk, intended to convey all the ...

John Chambers - 1829 - 698 pages
...room la ealled in which slr Kohert lay, write it down, admire a lohster or a eabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the tnu for fear the ; h should be over-dressed. How different my sensations! Nut a picture here hut reealls...
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 324 pages
...what such a room is called ? — write it down ; admire a lobster or cabbage in a Dutch market piece; dispute whether the last room was green or purple...then hurry to the inn, for fear the fish should be over-dressed." * We were not such a party ; but with imaginations ready primed to take fire, and memories...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...is called, in which sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple,...then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls a history ; not one, but...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...is called, in which sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple,...then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed. How different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls a history ; not one, but...
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