| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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