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" ... of the river, and the suburbs of Kingston as luckily placed as Twickenham is on the left: and a natural terrace on the brow of my hill, with meadows of my own down to the river, commands both extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must... "
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters ... - Page 6
by Horace Walpole - 1840
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 155-156

Early English newspapers - 1834 - 754 pages
...extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must figure that all this is perpetually enlivened by a navigation of boats and barges, and by a road...Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints, which I never could endure, while they pretended, infamous as they are ! to be after Titian, &c. ; but when...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 171

English essays - 1842 - 756 pages
...with coaches, post chaises, waggons, and horsemen, constantly in motion ; and the fields sprinkled with cows, horses, and sheep. Now you shall walk into...bow-window below leads into a little parlour, hung with a stone coloured Gothic paper, and several fine Venetian prints, which I could never endure, while they...
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Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries: Including ..., Volume 2

Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must figure that all this is perpetually enlivened by a navigation of boats and barges, and by a road below my terrace, with coaches, post chaises, waggons, and horsemen, constantly in motion, and the fields speckled with cows, horses,...
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Once Upon a Time, Volume 2

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...three windows upon a floor, in a formal row of ugly brick brethren. It is in Strawberry Hill, in the " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints "—or in the " charming closet hung with green paper, and water-colour pictures "—or in " the room...
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Once Upon a Time

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...three windows upon a floor, in a formal row of ugly brick brethren. It is in Strawberry Hill, in the " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints" — or in the " charming closet hung with green paper, and water-colour pictures " — or in " the...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 2

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must figure that all this is perpetually enlivened by a navigation of boats and barges, and by a road...never endure while they pretended, infamous as they arc, to be after Titian, &c., but when I gave them this air of barbarous bas-reliefs, they succeeded...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 2

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 554 pages
...extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must figure that all this is perpetually enlivened by a navigation of boats and barges, and by a road below my terrace, with coaches, post-chaise?, waggons, and horsemen constantly in motion, and the fields speckled with cows, horses,...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1880 - 548 pages
...extremities. Is not this a tolerable prospect ? You must figure that all this is perpetually enlivened by a navigation of boats and barges, and by a road below my terrace, with conches, post-chaises, waggons, and horsemen constantly in motion, and the fields speckled with cows,...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...into a pasteboard Gothic castle. He was said " to have outlived three sets of his own battlements," in a " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints," or " in the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons."...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 490 pages
...into a pasteboard Gothic castle. He was said " to have outlived three sets of his own battlements," in a " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints," or " in the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons."...
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